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A mindboggling look at some statistics of social media.

All the up-to-date how to's and don'ts of social networks. Any type of question you have about different social networks can be found here ! Suprisingly, there is an increase of usage on cell phones for social networks.

Social Media websites are growing and is becoming the fastest source to receive news and information on others from all over the world. In the US, the first pictures from the recent disaster in Haiti was released from social media.

A site explaining how to follow events in Chile using social media.

The latest in social media: enter your credit card number and instantly display everything you buy. Genius or the height of intrusiveness? Or, if we can't tell, is this about some sort of triumph of social media over privacy?

US survey reveals that 56% of journalist research on social media while conducting stories. All most all of journalist use Google, 89% use blogs, and 89% use company's website. Facebook and Twitter are slowly cathing up to these figures

Coca-Cola plans to create ad involving social media for their big super bowl ad. Does this mean that the vast majority of different audience members understand and know what social media is and how it works?

This article talks about the ways companies use what we post on our social media. For example, if we blog about something it can be added to their database. Companies are using this information to find out what and who they should be advertising to.

This site compares two popular social media sites, del.icio.us and StumbleUpon and tells you the advantages of both sites. From personal experience, StumbleUpon is very addicting and can be detrimental to your life... but totally awesome! As for del.icio.us, I had never heard of it so I found it very interesting.

A convention honoring Social Media is being held in NYC this week. Check out different seminars that interest you !

Douglas J. Wood is a partner with Reed Smith, chair of its media & entertainment industry focus group, and editor of the firm's white paper on social media, "Network Interference: A Legal Guide to the Commercial Risks and Rewards of the Social Media Networking Phenomenon."

Gives you 7 ways on how you can promote an event using social media by using twitter, facebook, flickr, and blogging.

A site providing a means to track growing trends in social media.

I thought this was relevant since it was mentioned in class that Internet Explorer was "evil".

Interesting perspective on social media

Digital photo frame company, Media Street, has created another digital photo frame with Wifi.This isn't the first of its kind, however, with this model you can view photos on flickr, photobucket, walmart. You can also use it to view facebook, twitter--you can even check the weather !

I know we don't need to do this anymore, but I thought this was an interesting site for social media. It's simply a Q&A Web page, where someone creates a page and anyone can visit the page and ask the creator a question.

After the Suberbowl, blog post displayed their favorite commercial ads. Thoes ads that were blogged about were most popular by viewers as well.

The ways in which the popular print press in Spain is trying to spread popular music into national media. Interesting insight.

Adam Ostrow discusses how celebrities, brands, corporations use twitter as a "power". "Normal" people like you and I do not use as much as expected. Is twitter the new way to find celebrity gossip or product promotions ? Is this distracting social media websites that try to make an "online community?