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Facebook Tops Google As Most Visited Site in U.S. Last Week

You could see this coming a mile away. Hitwise is reporting a major milestone reached by Facebook. They were the most visited…

By Nathania Johnson · 15 Mar 2010

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Twitter Expands Location Sharing Feature

It’s gonna be a great year for stalkers. In August, Twitter unveiled a location-sharing feature. It was limited to the API, so…

By Nathania Johnson · 12 Mar 2010

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MapQuest Adds Facebook Share Feature

Easily enable stalking by anyone your network. Just kidding. (Sort of) Sharing your location is all the rage these days. MapQuest is…

By Nathania Johnson · 11 Mar 2010

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Bing and – Facebook? – Up in comScore February 2010 Rankings

February is always a weird month for search data. It’s a short month. Query volume is always down. And this year was…

By Nathania Johnson · 11 Mar 2010

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Twitter’s New URL Shortener to Fight Spam

It’s being rolled out to Direct Messages first, where much of the spamming occurs. All links sent through Direct Messages will be…

By Nathania Johnson · 10 Mar 2010

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Google Acquires Online Photo Editor, Picnik

The spending spree continues. Picnik is a cloud-based photo editing tool. Upload your photos and edit them without needing any software on…

By Nathania Johnson · 02 Mar 2010

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Measuring Social Media with Web Analytics, Part 1

Measuring social media is possible and Web analytics should be a key part of your measurement strategy. Part one of a two…

By Nathan Linnell · 01 Mar 2010

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DiggAds Off to a Good Start

After severing ties with Microsoft on the ad front, the new in-house system appears to be paying off. Last year, Digg decided…

By Nathania Johnson · 26 Feb 2010

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Twitter Shows Off Hockey Stick Growth

It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Twitter! Twitter has released data charting the number of Tweets per day (TPD). The growth…

By Nathania Johnson · 22 Feb 2010

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Olympic Viewers Turn to Facebook During Games

Vancouver 2010 has people tuning into the tube and updating their networks at the same time. Nielsen has released data demonstrating the simultaneous…

By Nathania Johnson · 22 Feb 2010