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Did you know that Twitter can drive traffic to your blog, help build marketing lists and enhance existing customer service operations? The micro-blogging tool can do all this, and more, as big brands and small businesses across the globe are discovering.
Five tips on Twittering for business – Social Marketing – BizReport.

Another sign that Twitter is finally growing up: The company has put out a job posting hunting for a product manager to help it start raking in revenue. The San Francisco start-up, flush with venture funding and media hype, has yet to make a cent.
Twitter’s hunting for a moneymaker | The Social – CNET News.

Commentary on this week’s management changes at LinkedIn implied that a shake-up was needed to make LinkedIn more like Facebook. As somebody who has used LinkedIn extensively and spoken to many people who have also found it very useful, this is a plea to listen to users and not the Valley cognoscenti. Sure, when Facebook [...]

Facebook and MySpace may reign supreme in North America, but we can’t forget that they don’t control every country in the world. Simply put, people from around the globe have different tastes and the major U.S. networks barely capture relevant market share in some countries.
It’s a big world out there and believe it or not, [...]

Running a streaming video site isn’t cheap. Yahoo realized this and shutdown its Yahoo Live service, while YouTube’s lack of profitability is the constant ire of many. Stickam has apparently taken note, and is launching an API that enables other websites to utilize its service to add live streaming video.
HOW TO: Add Live Video to [...]

Mashable reader Patrick de Laive over at Fleck, at the suggestion of our fearless leader Pete, put together a simple bookmarklet that posts URLs to Twitter in a shortened form, of course and then saves that tweet as an easy to find bookmark in your browser.
The tool, Fleck Lite, looks pretty slick and it doesn’t [...]

1. Connecting: Introduce yourself and tell me why you want to connect
I think it is polite to introduce yourself when using social media. It is nice to know who the person is, their interests, and who they are affiliated with. Sometimes when interacting with people on a social media site you find their purpose is [...]

However, lately Twitter has been getting some very malicious users on its microblogging platform. On a day to day basis, more spam users are signing up just to try to get traffic to their websites. Many of these websites contain pornographic images and other adult content. Being that Twitter is supposed to be family-friendly, and [...]

10 Reasons why Twitter is for you and FriendFeed is not
Dave Winer talks about why FriendFeed hasn’t gotten super popular yet. He thinks there’s space for a new service between Twitter and FriendFeed. Everyone knows I’m FriendFeed’s #1 customer, but I’ve been studying the two services for a while and have found 10 reasons why [...]

The head of the CIA doesn’t want you to know what he watches on television.
So-called “open source” intelligence — spook-speak for tidbits taken from newspapers, internet postings, and TV shows — is starting to play a major role in the nation’s spy agencies. That’s a major change, in a world that’s used to relying on [...]