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Social Media Isn’t Conversation, It’s Publication

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The idea that social media allows us to engage in online conversations is getting people into all kinds of trouble, because what we’re doing when we click “Tweet&# on Twitter or “Share&# on Facebook isn’t conversation — it’s publication. Tags: Social Media.

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Switching to Impulse: Social Media Gets Faster

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Social media just got faster. Immediacy is one of the Six Valuable Attributes of Social Media. The ability to communicate about something as it happens, as opposed to hours or even days later, is a big part of the appeal of social media.

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

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Location-based services — applications that “know” where you are and can use that information to connect you with people, places and things — are one of the hot new classes of social media applications. Tags: Social Media Brightkite Foursquare Gowalla GPS Location Based Services triangulation.

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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

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And there’s something nice about simple, uncluttered, standalone apps, particularly in a mobile environment. This is definitely the year of location-based social media, and a lot of interesting things are going to happen in the next nine months. Tags: Social Media Brightkite check-in check.in Wagers anyone? *

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“Nearest Tube” Early iPhone Augmented Reality App

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There’s a brief “demo&# on YouTube: The application, available only to Apple iPhone 3GS users, further cements the iPhone’s role as the great enabler for advances in mobile computing. Tags: Social Media Augmented Reality iPhone app Nearest Tube. I wrote about AR here on May 22.

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Baskin Robbins Sells 31-Cent Scoops With Smart Social Media

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I was so impressed with how effectively the company used social media to promote 31-Cent Scoop Night, I got in touch with them and did an e-mail interview with one of their PR managers. It’s a brilliant promotion that fills BR stores around the country, but more brilliant still when built on a social media platform.