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A mindboggling look at some statistics of social media.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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."

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?

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

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

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

Somewhat user generated media and news.

"Immerse yourself in the energetic, innovative and potentially illegal world of mash-up media with RiP: A remix manifesto. Let web activist Brett Gaylor and musician Greg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, serve as your digital tour guides on a probing investigation into how culture builds upon culture in the information age."

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

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 !