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If You Use Foursquare, I Hope Your Spouse Trusts You

The interesting thing that happened is that by sharing the check-in on Twitter, Foursquare automatically tagged me as being at airport with a certain @TylerJanderson. We haven’t had the pleasure to meet yet, nevertheless if you look at the resulting tweet, it does look like I am purposefully mentioning him as in his company.

Why The History Channel Is On Foursquare

Since a picture is worth a 1,000 words and even 1,000,000 Words in 140 Characters according to Twitter, the screenshot below should give ample response to this question.

@Twitter: Sure You Can Now Upload Images But You Won’t Know Squat!

Twitter nevertheless keeps a tight fits on analytics and when you do share an image through Twitter you can say goodbye to the number of times your picture has been seen. This move will surely speak to the hurried folks and those not caring about analytics.

Twitter Looking For More Revenue, Advertising Moves One More Notch Up

Timely Tweets: Through its blog today, Twitter announced today that it would be moving tweets from select companies and promoted tweets (currently only appearing in the list of trends) higher up in our timelines.

New on Twitter: 1,000,000 Words in 140 Characters

Today, Twitter unveiled its long awaited photo and video sharing, not only leaving the likes of Twitpic, Yfrog and Twitvid in the dust… with a twist: pushing hashtags. In watching the official unveiling video below, Twitter is smartly appealing to users’ love-hate relationship with the ubiquitous 140 characters limit: too limiting to ramble but fantastic to consume and digest.

Why Work Doesn’t Happen At Work… It’s The M&Ms

What is your favorite place or time to do some important work? When is the last time you had 3 hours to yourself at the office? Distractions? Interruptions? What do many employers say they fear at the thought of letting their people work from home? Distractions? Interruptions? Vicious circle? Where do we go from here?

Say No To Ugliness! How To Properly Share a Link On Facebook

Links are very useful and constitute the raison d’être of the internet. Problem is they look ugly, gibberish and often relay a spamy smell; especially on Facebook. Take a look at the picture below, how ugly is that?!

Are you ready? Social Scoring Is Changing Your Life

There is an interesting, and perhaps alarming, trend brewing on the social media scene. Take a look at a couple items in the news last week…

Twitter Enables DIY Disaster Relief in Indonesia

Indonesians, who were the victims of earthquakes, a tsunami, and volcanic eruptions last month, are finding help from an unlikely source: Twitter. Indonesia is a country composed of 17,000 islands, and organizing aid relief efforts has proved a challenge, particularly in regions where infrastructure was destroyed, reports Reuters. So enterprising and tech-savvy citizens are taking [...]

Meet Speed, Daughter of King Content and Queen Engagement

Blogging has won! It wasn’t killed, but actually emboldened, by social media. The latter is alive, well and here to stay as are SEO and search engines: Not a simpler landscape to deal with. So what are businesses looking to use the web for growth to do? Three things: Create even better engaging content, feed it through social networks to engage their communities on it and… make sure that content loads super extra fast on their screen.