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With more than 550 million people on Facebook, 65 million tweets posted on Twitter each day, and 2 billion video views each day on YouTube—, social media has become an integral part of our connected lives. But this is just the beginning.

ToneCheck is an email plug-in that checks the content of your emails for tone and alerts you to language that may be misunderstood or interpreted as particularly negative.

With the various ways in which email differs from visio-verbal channels of communication, it often helps to have someone look at a sensitive reply before sending. This tool may relieve a human from that task.

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image bookmarking with an incredible selection of inspiring photos. A very good way to become inspired visually when looking for just the right visual statement. 

As the year 2010 approaches its last few days, it's time to look back on the previous 12 months. In the first third of 2010, Millions of gallons of oil spewed into the Gulf of Mexico, several massive earthquakes wreaked havoc worldwide, Vancouver hosted a successful Winter Olympics, and so much more. Each photo tells its own tale, weaving together into the larger story of 2010. This is a multi-entry story, 120 photographs over three days. Please watch for part 2 and part 3 tomorrow and the next day.

A bottle of Ibuprofen to lessen the pains. A coffin of plastic to hold my remains. 7 doses of indocin to loosen my joints. 2 bottles of Cuervo for hangover points. Bite me, Skywalkers both Anakin and Luke. I hope that I die. I hope I don't puke. 60 diphenhydramine to put me to sleep. A bottle of Jack for my Droid Soul to keep. A bottle of Jack for my Droid Soul to keep.

Scott Gerber is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, public speaker and author of Never Get a "Real" Job: How to Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. The content for this post was sourced from the Young Entrepreneur Council, a group of successful Gen Y business owners. You can submit your questions to this group on NeverGetaRealJob.com.

We are pleased to announce that Klout Scores are now automatically processed every day. Along with daily score processing, we have improved the Klout scoring algorithm.

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Yesterday, in central London, thousands of students and others gathered to protest as Britain's Parliament met to vote on a proposal to raise university tuition fees significantly - nearly tripling them - as part of a continuing set of austerity programs. During the protest, several clashes took place between police and protesters, resulting in numerous injuries and 43 arrests.