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“3 main entry points into the world of social media for major brands that are currently on the outside looking in. I’m talking about official entry for the brand and not just an employee or some paid stringer setting up a MySpace or Facebook account.”

” Bear Stearns Internet analyst Robert Peck gave a couple of days ago. It recommends a broad strategy for Yahoo to get their act together in the social networking space, and recommends a near term acquisition of one of the big players.”

Bringing in gues bloggers “I know how to ask people for help, but while I’m researching and experiencing this last minute decision of mine, I’d love your tips and advice on how to handle guest bloggers.”

“Yesterday’s tragedy makes it clear the U.S. has been squandering its infrastructure legacy by turning a reckless blind eye to critical upgrades, says a natl security expert, former Coast Guard officer and Sr. fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.”

“Applications can retrieve biz review and rating info by geographic region/location, pull up biz info based on a phone number, etc. There are no commercial boundaries on the APIs – data can be used without charge within their terms of use.”

“As if that isn’t enough, a recent post by Jack Vinson – commenting on a post by Amy Gahran – now has me thinking of another issue raised by all this: How do I keep track of it all? Fortunately for me, Jack provides some possible solutions to explore.”

“How do we manage all of this and how do we sort through the data smog? More specifically, how do we even manage what we write, read and wish to follow? Amy Gahran stated that she has a pipe dream regarding this issue.”

“Cocomment should NEVER keep a comment from being posted. Even if the service is down. But it does. It’s very frustrating. Until I stop seeing these kinds of error messages I can not recommend Cocomment.”

Oh, now this is interesting! “SuprGlu is about bringing the pieces of your web content together into one central place for you, your friends, and maybe even your friends to-be.” Found via Lumpy’s Corner.

“It turns out this part of the brain also fires up when people silently read certain words, scientists reported in the journal Neuron. “They have to be action words — active verbs,” the Science News Online story said, a conclusion certain to cheer wordsm