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The Social Rundown: Social Media Meltdowns, Twitter Analytics, and Foursquare Enhancements

by Shannon Johnson September 24, 2010

Holy Hacking, Batman! Maybe I should rename this post “The Social Media is Down.” After all, both Twitter and Facebook experienced major technical difficulties this week. First, on Tuesday, @judofyr started a worm, which he reportedly created “just to see if it was possible.” The worm flooded Twitter with auto-launching porn and pranks when someone [...]

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Facebook Places: What it is, How it Works, What it Means

by Shannon Johnson August 23, 2010

Something substantial happened in the sphere-o-social-media this past week – Facebook’s rumored geolocation “check-ins” feature finally cropped up. It’s called Facebook Places. But you probably knew that already since it’s likely that you’ve recently seen a story about a friend’s location appear in your News Feed. Or maybe you know of it because Facebook alerted [...]

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5 Hot Takeaways from South By Southwest

by Andrew Bagley March 19, 2010

South by Southwest Interactive is the largest emerging interactive technology conference in the US, and one of the places shaping and discovering emerging trends.  Join us as we discuss 5 of the most interesting topics and trends to come out of the conference. GeoLocation – Applications GoWalla and Foursquare fought it out as GeoLocation continued [...]

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