Digg commenter Hiji writes, “This is the beginning of the end. In a few years all the major blogs and social-media sites will be owned by large corporations, putting us right back where we started.”

The topic of discussion is, of course, TechCrunch’s rumor that Digg will soon be acquired by Google for somewhere in the [...]

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I’ve spent the past few years on Facebook and various social networks. While I had been using the internet daily since middle school, social networks were really what helped me increase my ability to stay in touch with the everyday person I interacted with. In college, you go out to a party and thanks to [...]

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Looking for funding for the next hot Facebook application? You aren’t going to find it. So claims Nicholas Carlson who quotes an executive at one of the Facebook application firms as saying “It would be insane for a new developer” to begin creating new apps on the platform. This exact same issue was [...]

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Many companies are intrigued by the concept of social media, but have no idea how to actually integrate it into business practices. In an earlier post, we explored one approach to putting a simple social media plan in place.

Changing employee behavior is challenging, and social media participation is often looked at as an additional [...]

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The latest numbers are in, and they’re showing that June was a big month for at least two of the top social networking Most-Networked-Executives sites. According to Nielsen Online, Facebook swelled to 29.2M unique visitors in the US, up more than 10 percent from May. Meanwhile, professional social networking site LinkedIn grew more than [...]

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Remember that annoying question mark that would show up when somebody didn’t want to upload their picture? Well, worry no more because Facebook has now changed the default image for a user from a question mark to a more gentle silhouette. Now for those people that you may or may not know what they look [...]

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On Tuesday evening Facebook announced that users would begin seeing the new profile within 24 hours. They also gave warning to developers to be prepared. More than 24 hours have passed by and the new profile has still not launched. While Facebook initially suggested that the profile would launch sometime this week, the notification to [...]

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A couple weeks ago Facebook surpassed MySpace to become the largest global social network. Aside from becoming the largest website, there are not many other goals that they could strive to achieve when it comes to traffic. Actually, there is one more goal that would be nice to accomplish: become the number one search term [...]

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Mike Germano of Carrot Creative posted a tweet earlier today that mentioned he was getting an SSL version of Facebook showing up. Why would Facebook need and SSL version of their site up and running? Technically they don’t currently but with the impending launch of the Facebook payment platform (which many are speculating will launch [...]

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On July 14, FB will begin to unveil its new profile design along with a host of Platform changes that impact how applications interact with users. To get a quick-look at the new layout, log in to your page and then go to http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php. Not only does it look different, it also works differently. This [...]

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