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Google +1 Button for Websites Now Live

Less than two hours ago Google has rolled out their new +1 button for the whole web. Google’s +1 button is essentially Google’s response to Facebook’s “like” function, with one important difference: the +1 button will also be integrated into Google’s search results. Here’s what “the big G” wrote about […]

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Facebook Attack: Data of 100 Million Users Collected & Published

<!…and it is now available for a free download! Scary, isn’t it? 100 million Facebook users essentially means every fifth account. A couple hours after the publishing of this database, BBC picked up the news writing: Ron Bowes used a piece of code to scan Facebook profiles, collecting data not

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Microblogging versus Social Networking: Twitter vs Facebook

Not too long ago I have blogged about the 17 types of social media marketing channels. Since then Facebook has acquired FriendFeed [more here], which should enhance the real-time social search on Facebook, making things significantly better than they currently are on Twitter Search. Another reason behind it may be

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Types of Social Media to Use in Marketing

There is a number of social media channels/types that a company — be it an online-based, or a brick-and-mortar one — can successfully use in their marketing. I could count the following seventeen: Blogging Content aggregation Crowdsourcing Forums Livecasting Microblogging Photosharing Podcasting Presentation sharing Reviews & opinion sites Social bookmarking

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