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Social media monitoring firm Meltwater is circulating an infographic on who will win the key categories in Sunday night's Grammy Awards based on what's being said around the social media water cooler.

Write up on cookie blocking going on

Plates on benches make imprints on thighs promoting a brand of short shorts.

Research firms have dismantled Xoom tablets and have more insight on why is costs more to build than an iPad

Total audience = 30 million Engaged audience size for Angry Birds ads = ~24 million (the 80% who download updates)

A billboard that was constructed on ice, the offer on it lasts until the billboard sinks.

, Ralph Lauren is conducting a contest on its Facebook page that allows parents in the U.S. and the U.K. to upload photos of their child. Friends and family can then vote on the child of their choice. The winning whippersnapper will be chosen from the group of children with the most votes, flown to New York and cast as a member of the RL Gang (pictured above).

When it comes to Twitter advertising, Bain says Twitter 80% of Twitter engagement consists of people clicking on a Tweet, while the remaining 20% is a Retweet or a Tweet. He thinks those are powerful signals, particularly if a user Retweets an ad: in doing so, they've transformed it from advertising to content endorsement. Case in point: two of the top 5 Tweets of all time are actually ads from McDonald's (MCD) and Disney (DIS) -- the others include Stephen Colbert's Tweet about the BP (BP) oil spill and Barack Obama's victory Tweet, "Yes we did." And when Volkswagen decided to unveil the new Beetle exclusively on Twitter, the auto maker saw a 52% engagement rate, which Bain says may have been the first time in digital advertising that "you were a minority if you didn't click the ad."

Speculation on the impact of tablets on traditional computing hardware usage.

interesting idea for L'Oreal- online location where people can tune in to watch celebs and makeup stars putting on makeup or applying it. could be integrated through an app that turns the screen into a mirror on a laptop with a webcam or iphone4, etc

Opinion piece on the impact that mobile gaming will have on the console gaming industry at large.

Nice stats on social influence on purchase decisions

Instant pages pre-loads the page they expect you to click on, but also now ranks pages higher if they load faster. Also, mobile search returns different results based on what people are typically looking for when they search via mobile.

stats for what happens in 60 seconds on the internet

The unit -- the eighth available to advertisers on Facebook -- works by having the brand pose a question on the its Facebook page, aiming for a conversation-starter. That same question will also be posed in a traditional display ad on the right hand side of the Facebook screen. If users choose to respond to the brand's question, the conversation will move into the user's news feed, where it has the opportunity to be commented on by the user's friends.

Interesting take on social lbs; aggregating people on proximity rather than exact locations