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Searching for Jobs on Twitter- Can Twitter help you get a job? »

The sudden increased popularity of twitter and social media in general has created a new avenue of looking for jobs-with the millions of people using twitter and talking about everything it was only a matter of time until this medium could be used for employment.
You can use twitter search to look for jobs but you [...]

Friendfeed live updates debuts during Presidential Debates »

Friendfeed debuted live updates during last nights televised presidential debate. The real time view offers comments, posts and pictures at the top of a users feed as they are posted.
For last nights debate over 500 people joined the 2008 debate room and participated in live real time comments as the debate was going on.
Once the [...]

Tweetlater- Useful Twitter tool »

Tweetlater is a useful tool for managing a single or multiple twitter accounts. Tweetlater lets you set a schedule to send tweets and also allows the setup of auto welcome and auto following
The ability to set up delayed twitter postings makes most people think of spam or abuse of the system. Delayed tweets do have [...]

FriendFeedSpy Beta- Innovative use of FriendFeed »

FriendFeedSpy is a new beta service similar in nature to Twitter search. The difference between the two services is instead of searching for information based on keywords or users it is a live view of posting activity on FriendFeed.
You can filter the information posted by users into different categories news, bookmarking, video, photos, blogging, books, [...]

Twitter hits the mainstream with CNN »

First Anderson Cooper started blogging and taking blogger questions live on his newscast now a new show on CNN is here interacting live with twitter- CNN Newsroom with Rich Sanchez weekdays at 12pm PST

Now Rick Sanchez has a daily newcast integrating Twitter into the show. Viewers can twitter comments and opinions about live news of [...]

Social Media meets the Oscars- Using Twitter to enhance special events »

Twitter is now being used as a method to discuss special events as they are happening. During this years Oscar broadcast twitter is being used to discuss and evaluate the oscars among thousands of twitter users
By including the phrase “#aa08″ in your tweets or twitter messages a mashup is created with twitter users commenting on [...]

How to describe Twitter and why do you Twitter? »

What is twitter? What is twittering? why do people do this and what type of person is most likely to twitter. Every time I’ve tried to describe twittering and tried to show examples of twitter I’ve gotten blank responses and been labeled as a nut. I have also made the wrong assumption of thinking just [...]

Super Tuesday mashup- innovative use of social media »

Google teamed up with Twitter and Twittervision to offer a unique mashup for Super Tuesday. Tweets related to Super Tuesday were overlayed on a map showing the tweet, the user and their location along with other election related data including videos and actual voting results
This was an amazing use of social media and what I [...]

People powered mobile search-Getting answers on the Go… »

A new service I just discovered is mosio. It’s a spin on mobile search that is really useful and solves quite a few problems with existing ways to search on your mobile
Most everyone has GOOG-411 programmed into their cell phone. Newer phones all have the ability to browse the internet depending on your level of [...]