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A post about how Twitter differs from Facebook re networking. This post is from an entrepreneur's perspective, but there are parallels here for researchers and the most agile and adept researchers also use Twitter in much the same way. 

Great article about the power of Twitter (not just for media organisations).

"Using Twitter for Curated Academic Content" (Yes, you could do this or you could just use Zite or even Flipboard - apps freely available via iTunes. Mal Booth)

Not all of those mentioned on this list are that "new". Those I think that would be most useful to researchers: For metrics/statistics - Argyle, TwentyFeet.com & PostRank For content management - Trunk.ly & Storify & for Twitter hashtag tracking - HashTracking

Tumblr is a growing social media platform that is a bit of a mix between Twitter, a blog and something like Flickr (as it is normally associated with images or short videos). It is suited to multiple platforms and cloud-based. It is a platform that may suit some researchers. Another multi-platform blog along similar lines is Posterous.

Free back up service for all or most of your cloud-based data. Works with Gmail, Google Docs & Calendar, Picassa, Twitter, Flickr, Blogger & Zoho. I use it.

OK, a video about using Zotero for those of you who prefer this tool.

Interesting short post from RWW about how changes to Twitter's terms of service will adversely impact on the ability of scholars to use it for their research.

Blog post about the use of #phdchat for post-grad researchers. Many links to other useful introductory posts.

A research tool for those interested in social media.

Free, browser-based easy-to-use tool to help collect, organize/sort, search, cite, and share research sources.