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Facegoogle? Facebook Responds to Google+ and Gives in to Foursquare

I was pleased to read today about Facebook's rapid enlightenment on the need for easy to use privacy settings. That it comes as a reaction to Google+'s Circles feature (which has been widely praised for it's usability), is enormously satisfying. Not only do we now h...
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Do Google +1s Impact Your Search Rankings?

This is a guest post from Marcus Taylor, Head of Social Search, SEOptimise, re-published from their blog. Several months ago I ran some tests on the impact of Facebook Likes on Google Rankings. After receiving several e-mails and tweets asking whether Google +1s hav...
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How Facebook and Twitter are failing early adopters

A survey from Gartner has revealed that, while social media usage continues to grow, early adopters are showing signs of fatigue. According to the survey, which gathered the views of 6,000 people, "24 percent of respondents indicated that they were using their main...
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Working in the Shadow of Google

In planning MSM09, we've met lots of skeptics about the future of social media monitoring. The classic response is, "Wait until Google launches it's SMM service". Google already runs the simplest form of web monitoring: Google Alerts. It also has Google Reader, Google T...
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