The New Oxford American Dictionary has named "unfriend" - as in deleting someone as a friend on a social network such as Facebook - its word of the year. Oxford University Press USA, in a blog post, said "unfriend", a verb, had beaten netbook, sexting, paywall, birther and death panel for the hon
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Last month, we reported on a survey that found that 84% of social media programs don’t measure return on investment (ROI). The comments in that post indicated that a lot of individuals and businesses want to be able to measure the ROI of their social media strategies and campaigns, but they don’
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Google's email and messaging platform could change the web forever, writes Adam Turner. RED pill in hand, Google is offering to show us how deep the rabbit hole goes with Google Wave. Every now and then, someone develops a new way of thinking about an old problem. Email has become so bogged do
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This is a pretty cool clip that shows how businesses can keep an eye on their competitors using social media. Here are links to some of the tools/services that this guy mentions Platforms Twitter Facebook Blogging Directories Wefollow Software CoTw
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Naked Communications, Sydney planning partner Adam Ferrier - who spoke at the Caxton Seminar in Noosa on the weekend - believes the anonymous comment on blogs "is the bastard child of the Internet and social media, and is akin to giving the back row of the classroom an endless supply of rubbers, and
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GEOCITIES used to be the place many people made their first website, but now it's shutting up shop. Yahoo announced it is closing GeoCities, a free service that hosts personal home pages, which it acquired 10 years ago during the dotcom boom. The service, which became synonymous with early
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The 100 greatest YouTube moments condensed into a small 4 minute clip. I recognised most but not all, how many do you recognise?
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[from Mashable.com] Google’s anticipated real-time communication platform launches in less than 24 hours. That’s right, we’re talking about Google Wave. What we already know: On September 30th, Google (Google) will send out 100,000 invites to Google Wave. Since it’s already September 30t
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Combine dull status updates with shameless self-promoters, "friend-padders" and that friend of a friend who sends you quizzes every day, and Facebook becomes a daily reminder of why some people can get on your nerves. Here are 12 of the most annoying types of Facebook users
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