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Switching to Impulse: Social Media Gets Faster

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We’ve recently had an obsession with brevity in the form of Twitter, and shortened URLs for example. Yesterday afternoon I was having trouble with my Flip video, which I haven’t used in a long time, and complaining about it on Twitter. For further proof, look at how mobile video uploads have taken off on YouTube.

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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. Imagine you’re chatting with a real friend in a real cafe.

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Facebook About to Drop a Bomb on Foursquare?

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Witness Google, with Google Buzz, which has generated some interest but doesn’t really seem poised to destroy Twitter. And there’s something nice about simple, uncluttered, standalone apps, particularly in a mobile environment. There comes a time in the life of every hot software product’s life (whether a Web 2.0

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

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You’ll also have the option to “cross-post” such that your location and message is published both within the application and to your Twitter or Facebook account. You can use most location-based services on your laptop, but they are more powerful and more useful on a mobile phone, like an iPhone, Android or BlackBerry. Brightkite 2.0

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Baskin Robbins Sells 31-Cent Scoops With Smart Social Media

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Below the two girls is a link to a Facebook page, and to the right, links to Facebook and Twitter. It was all over Twitter and Facebook. So it went to all my Twitter followers and then over to FriendFeed and Facebook. Twitter users can @reply the handle or retweet a post at the click of a button. And I mean all over.