How should we organize our company for social media?

Companies Should Organize For Social Media in a “Hub and Spoke” model.

Twazzup: A Better Twitter Search Engine



Twazzup, tries to bridge the gap between Twitter's real-time search and a more traditional search engine.

Connect with your followers in real-life. Find or organize a local Tweetup.

The Twitter Hash Tag: What Is It and How Do You Use It?



Once you've started using Twitter, it won't take long before you come across what's known as a hash tag. That's when you see something in a tweet that has a # prefix. (The # is a hash symbol, hence the term hash tag or hashtag.)

Twitter Marketing: How to drive Traffic to Your Sites Using Twitter

European Social Media: 19 startups to watch

Silicon Valley isn’t the only place that’s a hotbed for social media and web entrepreneurship: Europe is filled with skilled entrepreneurs and successful startups.

Web surfing in a wireless network...from your shirt pocket



Verizon Wireless will begin selling a device from Novatel Wireless that allows mobile users to connect multiple devices to a 3G connection. The MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot, uses Verizon's EV-DO Rev. A network to create a personal WiFi cloud that can connect up to five WiFi-enabled devices, such a digital cameras or an iPod Touch, to the Internet.

WhereCloud



Reportage works with the way you already tend to use Twitter; by firstly, scanning for the avatar of people you care most about and then browsing for second tier interest people.

Streaming media in the future of virtual events

Virtual Edge and Stream57 collaborate to educate and inform on a rapidly changing industry.

WebEx next for the iPhone

With more than 7 million individuals participating in online meetings every month, the Web-based meeting facilities provided by Cisco WebEx (plus uncounted others served up by competitors) have become a ubiquitous means of quickly sharing information when you can’t be there in person.

Psykopaint

Psykopaint is an online photo painting application which uses the color of an image to paint. Very easy and quick to use but very elaborate at the same time.

Every Trail

EveryTrail is an online platform that enables you to visualize your travel experiences and share these with fellow travelers from all over the world. With EveryTrail you can easily upload GPS data you recorded while out on a trip and add your photos and notes, to create a compelling, interactive, visual record of your travel experience. EveryTrail was created by a small group of passionate travelers, out of dissatisfaction with current solutions to share trips.

The 10 Commandments of Social Media

"What do I need to do engage my company, my products, and myself in social media?" The answer is easy: participate.

Facebook is streamlined for Blackberry



Facebook on Blackberry has a more streamlined version of the popular social networking app it codeveloped with Facebook's help.

Songkick's new database makes old concert tickets useful

Band tracker and concert reminder service Songkick is venturing into new territory. The site is launching a feature that lets users chronicle all the shows they've ever been to. Think of it like a virtual shoe box for your old ticket stubs.



Users can either add these shows by hand, or search from a database that includes more than a million concerts. Each show page includes things like set lists, photos, videos, and posters.

CiscoLive!

Don't miss the year's premier education and training event for IT, networking, and communications professionals. See the show in San Francisco June 27-July 2, 2009, for the 20th anniversary of Cisco Networkers.

Palm Pre launching with Google Search, Google Maps, and YouTube

Palm Pre phone's webOS works great with Google Search, Google Maps, and YouTube, which are built into the device. You can also easily sync your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Contacts to Palm Pre.

New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets

Is Twitter a communications service for friends and groups, a means of expressing yourself freely, or simply a marketing tool?

No-Fuss Video Conferencing Using Tinychat



Where do you turn if you want to set up a video conference with your team at the drop of a hat? Tinychat is a simple, no-download, no-login chatroom that includes audio/video support and desktop sharing.

TED Global 2009

TEDGlobal 2009 is a full-length TED conference in Oxford, UK, this July 21-24. Four days of amazing speakers, conversation and connection on an intriguing theme: The Substance of Things Not Seen. Some speakers already announced! Learn more about TEDGlobal 2009 in Oxford.

What Green Day can teach us about social media

The evolution of a musician or group of musicians is always a fascinating journey to witness. While the changes are seemingly subtle, it’s always fun to go back over the anthology of an artist’s musical works and see how far they’ve come, and how different they are from the beginning.

Smart Mobs Revisited

Howard Rheingold presents at Mobile Mondy in Amsterdam. Well worth watching.

Ficly

Ficly is a place for playing with story-telling; a collaborative environment where anyone can pick up a narrative thread and weave a prequel or sequel.

You can start a story or jump into someone else's tale. The possibilities are endless, and in some cases, so are the stories.

MultiURL

MultiURL allows you to combine multiple links into one short link that you can quickly and easily share with your friends, colleagues, on your blog or any other website.

For example, you want to share the list of common search engines you know:

http://www.google.com
http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.msn.com

MultiURL will combine these links into one short link: http://www.multiurl.com/g/5 or http://www.multiurl.com/l/5

FeedMingle makes lives simpler for web designers/developers, feed readers, bloggers, or just anyone who wants to merge two or more RSS / Atom feeds into one. It mixes all the feeds provided and creates one RSS feed, Atom feed, JSON feed, and a html widget to simply paste into your website or blog.

iPhone 3G (s)



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Moblin: A Netbook OS to Watch

Intel's Linux-based netbook operating system gives Windows a run for its money.

Sanpdragon

A new breed of ability and mobility.

Paystr

Paystr is a 100% free, secure, online listing and payment site. You will notice everything on this site is done so that you can quickly be paid by individuals or groups and or pay someone yourself without having to setup up accounts where they hold your money. Watch the YouTube video below then visit the site.

What's happn.in on Twitter in your city?

Happn.in collects and aggregates popular phrases used on Twitter within 20 miles of major cities. The five most popular phrases each hour are posted to this site, and are tweeted three times a day to the happn.in Twitter account for each city. To follow happn.in for your city, click the link below your city's list on the home page.

Zensify for iPhone aggregates your social networks


"All your networks are belong to us." That could be the tagline for Zensify, a new iPhone app that lets you view, update, and share content from multiple social networks.

The Netflix of audiobooks

Booksfree.com is a service that solves the audiobook money pit the same way Netflix bailed out DVD addicts. Users pay a flat fee for a monthly subscription, and receive a rotation of audiobook CDs sent to them by mail. Booksfree isn't the first audiobook service to try the Netflix model, but it's one of the most affordable, with subscriptions as low as $10.99/mo.

Google vs. Amazon

Google appears to be throwing down the gauntlet in the e-book market.