What The F**K is Social Media?
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What the F**K is Social Media: One Year Later
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Happy Birthday Twitter, you are 3 years old now and still online. It all started on 21st of March 2006 when Jack Dorsey sent his first Tweet and, together with Evan Williams, Biz Stone and others, created a social media company that has grown over 1300% in the last year.
According to a post on Nielsen [...]

StockTwits is an open, community-powered idea and information service for investments. Users can eavesdrop on traders and investors, or contribute to the conversation and build their reputation as savvy market wizards. The service takes financial related data – using Twitter as the content production platform – and structures it by stock, user, reputation, etc.
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Blogging company Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging startup Pownce for undisclosed financial terms. It looks like one of those acquisitions where the buyer was more interested in the people than the product — the Pownce service will shut down in two weeks.

Yesterday Leah Culver (co-founder) posted on the official Pownce blog: “We will be [...]

CatchYouTube enables you to convert YouTube videos into any number of different video and audio formats and then to download these to your computer. It’s FREE and very simple to use.

Business networking site LinkedIn is joining the long list of companies that have announced cuts in the last few weeks — it has laid off 36 employees, or about 10 percent of its total staff.
Last month, it announced $22.7 million in new funding, bringing its total backing to $100 million.

OtherInbox is the email address you use for all the stuff you don’t want coming to my main email address – mostly shopping, news and social networking. Pretty much any time you are not giving your email address to a real person you use my OtherInbox. That way your main Inbox only has important stuff [...]

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