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TwitCritics or how to get Movie Reviews from Twitter

TwitCritics is a new Social Media Mashup by Chris Nicholls, Jonathan Haber and Jess Mary Nissen that gathers Tweets for the latest movies and determines whether they are positive and negative.  They are then able to take this data and provide a rating for the film based on the positive and negative trends. TwitCritics also […]

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Thwart Social Media Identity Theft and Check/Register Usernames with KnowEm

Not just for businesses any more, your social media identity is becoming increasingly important in online (and offline) communication, but how does one keep track of all of these new sites and usernames. Enter KnowEm (http://knowem.com/). KnowEm starts with a basic (free) service that allows you to search for your username on over 300 social […]

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New Facebook Virus Scam out in the wild

Facebook has just put up a new post warning users about a new virus/scam making its rounds.  The scam appears to be a Facebook Email, warning of new login security, that requires the user to click a link and subsequently captures their account information through a look-a-like Facebook site. Here’s the official word from Facebook: […]

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Google’s Social Search goes live

Last week it was Bing’s turn in the spotlight, and now it appears that Google has jumped on the Social Search bandwagon as well. Google’s Social Search will integrate into their current search results and display relevant status updates from social media sites including Twitter, Flickr, FriendFeed.  The new Social Search will also display content […]

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19% of internet users now publish and read status updates through social media sites

The Pew Internet and American Life Project has just released their latest findings in a study of how 19% of internet users are now publishing and reading status updates on social media sites such as Twitter and Facebook.  This is an increase of 8% over their findings from last February with 11% of internet users sharing […]