I love music. You love music. I love playing music, and you probably do as well. But what you might not know is that conducting, or directing music, is also...

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The YouTube NextUp program takes an interesting approach to creating YouTube superstars. The project wants to find talented people and turn them into video savvy content generators. With better quality...

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As the iPhone 4S has finally arrived at The Next Web's west coast headquarters, we've spent a bit of time shooting some images of the various details and angles of...

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You can't login anywhere these days without coming across some new form of currency manipulation, whether it's turning your mobile device into a credit card with services such as Google Wallet, peer-to-peer services like Bitcoin or just good old fashioned Facebook credits for buying virtual toilet roll. The thing with this is, you are still [...]

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sxchu_300px_different_1034103_10507365.jpg For my article this month, I can’t tell you about Facebook’s new timeline or Google+’s photo privacy tools. I can’t tell you about the latest YouTube sensation or trending Twitter topic. I don’t even know where my friends were located in the past 24 hours: I never saw their check-ins. I think I forgot a few birthdays. (Gulp.)Why did I become socially ignorant? I chose to disengage from social med [...]

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“For the first time ever in a single day we had 500 million people use Facebook” – Mark Zuckerberg For those who focus on the debate between Facebook, Google Plus and Twitter are missing the true story. Today at Facebook's f8 developer conference we were reminded about what the story really is…you and me. No, [...]

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There is little doubt that social media has an impact on sales. Companies use it every day to generate leads, increase branding, and improve public perceptions. As a marketing tool at the company level, few would contest the potential. What about at the salesperson level? That was the question that we tried to answer this [...]

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Formspring launched its first iPhone app. The question and answer company has created a different angle from other similar sites like Quora, by focusing on questions and answers about personal topics specifically between friends.


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This guest post is by Frank Angelone of SocialTechZone.com. Have you ever lent a friend money? If so, was this someone you thought you could trust? If you answered in the affirmative, as they say in The Social Network, than you will want to keep reading. The thought may already have crossed your mind, "how [...]

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What if you had a secret you wanted to share with the world but didn't want anyone to know who you are? And, what if you want to express this secret is some visually artistic way? Enter Frank Warren's community mail (as in postal mail, not electronic) art project in the form of a blog: PostSecret.com.


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Managing and growing any personal brand online can be a difficult task. For those of us looking to curate a respectable following, we simply can't afford to miss any stops as nowadays, as our online reputation means almost everything. Luckily, there are several tools we can use online that make this process easy and, in some cases, fun.In some case studies, personal brands that founded their online presence through small, community-based sites were then able to use the connections formed [...]

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Square revolutionized credit card transactions by making it cheap and easy to process by ordinary people without needing a merchant account. Personal finance software giant Intuit didn't want to get any futher behind in this area and is partnering with Verizon Wireless,Intuit Partners With Verizon Wireless To Sell Square-Competitor GoPayment At Retail Stores (TechCrunch)Intuit GoPayment provides hardware and services similar to Square. The GoPayment reader hardware will be sold in Verizon Wirele [...]

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