Twitter Needs a Spam Filter? No, We Need a Marketer Filter

ReadWriteWeb: Has Twitter spam gotten a little out of hand? According to today's top story on Techmeme, it has. Apparently, marketers are calling for Twitter to filter out spam and other adult content from the microblogging service. You know, so their all-important tweets about the products and services they're pushing don't have to share the same web space a...
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Ten Companies Twitter Should Consider Acquiring Next

readwriteweb: If you were a little blue bird, with a good pile of money and a whole lot of hype, what would you buy to spice up your nest? There are so many little services being built on top of Twitter that we wouldn't be surprised to see some more of them acquired by the company soon. That would mean more features for everyday users and more usefulness fo...
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Is Social CRM about automated relationship building?

Submitted By Socialmasses: Couple of days back I was presenting (in a teleconference) about Social CRM to a group of business analysts & developers working in the consumer goods industry.PeopleBrowsr's Campaign Builder for Twitter.I was introducing them to the concept of Social Media, Social Networks, some statistics as to why businesses should heed them & how the "consum...
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How to Install Chrome and Chromium Side-by-Side (So You Can Play with Extensions!)

ReadWriteWeb: We're sure by now you've heard about the upcoming extensions that will soon arrive in Google's Chrome browser. Already we've seen a handful of these become available including AdSweep, a PageRank checker, Cleeki, and, as of yesterday, a new bookmarking extension from Delicious. However, if you've been running the standard Chrome install (or even...
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New features in FF and Twitter

Scripting News: Yesterday while my poor addled brain struggled to cope with jetlag, Twitter was released a small feature with potentially wide implication, and FriendFeed released something new related to search that I thought they had already released. I don't think my confusion in the latter case had anything to do with jetlag. Twitter now hots-up hashtags. S...
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Facebook for iPhone 3.0 to Include Video Uploading for 3GS Owners

Inside Facebook: We’ve heard a lot of people say the iPhone’s built-in support for YouTube video uploading is going to make a huge impact on the number of people posting videos online. That number could grow even more now that Facebook’s upcoming Facebook for iPhone 3.0 app is going to include video uploads - especially amongst people who want to easily post the...
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TechCrunch50: You Want Advertising? We’ll Give You Advertising

TechCrunch: Despite our best intentions, it looks like the DEMO v. TechCrunch50 war will continue, even with DEMO under new management. In 2007 we launched the first TechCrunch50 event - a place where companies can launch to rapid fans and tech press. These launching companies are the stars of the show, and they don't pay a cent to attend. We thought DEMO'...
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5 Simple Steps To Get Noticed On Microblogging Sites Twitter, Friendfeed, etc..

Submitted By Techshali: I know most of you have your profiles from long time on microblogging sites like twitter, Friendfeed, Identica, Plurk but whats the problem you have no followers only following, only you are fan and in more detail the problem with you, you do not have a good readership blog, peoples do not know you. You are [...] Related posts:Friendfeed More ...
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Are you involved with #followfriday in your Social Media Community? [Carolyn Williams]

Submitted By Magitam: Morning campers, Hi Di Hi!! So having replied to Mehmet's 'Social Networking Health warning' and recoverd from RSI and my twitch itch and bout of extra ecademy Blogite Twitter/FB itus here is my question to you... How involved are you on #followfriday in your social networks? Do you really know who tweets you. Do you really know which comm...
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My Twitter 20 Interview on Conversation and Community

Conversation Agent: In case you missed it, I was a guest on Jay Baer's Twitter 20 interview on Twitter this week. Thank you for that, Jay. It was fun, especially since I had no idea what questions you were going to ask.I met Jay at SxSWi when I had the opportunity to have face time with him and a group of smart professionals like Debbie Weil and John Havens of Blo...
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