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FROM WIKIPEDIA: Author Kartika Writes About the Annual Wikipedia Fundraising Campaign

December 4, 2010

The following was written by author Kartika, a writer who contributes regularly to Wikipedia. Wikipedia needs your help. Every year at this time, co-founder Jimmy Wales asks us to donate to Wikipedia to help defer the expenses of operating this great resource. This year, many contributors have helped with his cause by also requesting that [...]

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Weejee Media Launches Real Estate Social Media Sharing Website

December 1, 2010

A new Web service makes it easy for home sellers and real estate agents to share listing information on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and over 250 other social media websites. Chapel Hill, NC (Vocus) November 30, 2010 Weejee Media, LLC has launched DwellWell.com, a real estate Web service that helps homeowners sell homes through social media. [...]

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Will Rockmelt Make You Melt?

November 9, 2010

It’s the first browser to bring together a user’s social graph as well as the sites visited on a daily basis, which will only become more and more important. Obvious concerns are users’ understanding of the privacy issues and what’s being shared with whom. We’re through a lot of that already from Facebook’s attempts to [...]

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Twitter Known Issues: Are They Affecting Your Twitter Scores and Metrics?

October 25, 2010

Twitter has several known issues that its team of engineers are working diligently to correct. Some of them have existed for an extended period of time and are beginning to affect users’ Twitter scores and metrics. Largest among these are the lost mentions, @replies and tweets. Many users have come to rely on scoring systems [...]

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Brian Solis Speaks with Reputation Defender Founder Michael Fertik

October 10, 2010

In August, I wrote that the future is moving toward us faster than at any other time in history, that the changes we are seeing in communications are evolutionary. The world ahead can potential be one “less of individual strategy than of collective reasoning” as new forms of communications open new pathways for opinions and [...]

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The New Twitter and Real Time Search

September 17, 2010

Twitter’s founders say it best: “… we’ve learned something since starting Twitter—life doesn’t always fit into 140 characters or less.” On Tuesday night, the company gave a small percentage of registered accounts a sneak preview of the new Twitter, a re-engineered version of the micro-community that will provide its 145 million registered users — and [...]

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Okay, Web. Here Are MY Terms and Conditions.

August 16, 2010

Ever actually read a website’s Terms and Conditions statement? If you have, or if you have some idea of what one contains, you might agree that, dammit, it’s time we set some terms of our own! A lot has changed since the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 was signed into law protecting Web services [...]

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Hide Friends On Facebook, 2011

August 12, 2010

UPDATED, 22 September 2011 Okay, your ex just friended you on Facebook. Or your boss. Or your friend whose political views stream forth as constantly as the water from that broken fire hydrant when you were a kid. Oh brother. How can you be nice about it? Hide them! Facebook knows you’ll have friends like [...]

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