Google VP Marissa Mayer from a past Web 2.0 Summit (photo by J.D. Lasica).   Guide to events & conferences for the coming month WITI, Web 2.0 Expo New York, Web 2.0 Summit, Pivot and Pop!Tech are just a few of the events on tap for this month. Here's our roundup of social media, tech [...]

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Social Media Week begins on September 19th in 12 host cities worldwide. Organizers released a list of the "Top 10 Social Media Events that Shook the World." As you look over the list, you may agree with them, be surprised or baffled by the organizers' choices.


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A scene from last year's DemoFall (by Rob Lee on Flickr)   Guide to events & conferences for the coming month We're heading full-on into conference season again, now that summer is fast receding. Here's our roundup of social media, tech and marketing conferences and events for the month of September. Lots of great gatherings [...]

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  Let the madness begin.  The next three months are going to be crazy busy.  And, in full transparency, I will be speaking at each of the events below. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that there will be some pretty amazing speakers bringing their “A” game to each of these events; and some really good content as well! ———————————————————————— [...]

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  Let the madness begin.  The next three months are going to be crazy busy.  And, in full transparency, I will be speaking at each of the events below. But that doesn’t take away from the fact that there will be some pretty amazing speakers bringing their “A” game to each of these events; and some really good content as well! ———————————————————————— [...]

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It turns out that the Foursqaure for iPhone update I wrote about yesterday has a bit more functionality than was announced with the update.


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Mercedes' RFID Facebook check-ins at the PGA Championship is enabled by RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) products from ODIN Technologies.Facebook & RFID – The Secret to News Feed OptimizationODIN's RFID Social Media EasyConnect uses Facebook's API to automate the process of "Like-ing," check-ins and even dealing with photos. As you can see in the embedded video an RFID tag can be embedded in a conference badge and associated with the wearer's Facebook account. This enables the ab [...]

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When a big news event is unfolding quickly, it can difficult to keep track of the latest news updates. Here we take a look at ways to keep on top of breaking news, and to cover it yourself.

Twitter

Well, it has to be in here, doesn't it? Many people look to Twitter for breaking news now, and there's lots of it to be found. People often follow hashtags associated with news they're interested in, but the search results for these tags can sometimes be far too busy to keep up with. Then there [...]

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Happy Friday! For those of us in the U.S. it really should be Thursday. I love short weeks! So it's been a week since Google+ launched and it's starting to grow on me. I still have NO idea how I'm going to organize my Circles, but I've been using the stream and I like how [...]

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