The Top 12 Social Media Stories This Week
Social media was even busier than normal as we got new info on some of the web’s most anticipated products. The first screenshots of Firefox 3.7, the revelation that 100,000 invites for Google Wave arrive in September, and the removal of the Alice in Wonderland trailer from YouTube made headlines this week. Social media was not without controversy this week, though. Digg was engulfed in controversy when it changed its short URL service, the DiggBar, early this week, and a contest by...
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Twitter Gets Even More Media Love Than Google
Have you noticed how often Twitter gets mentioned on the news, TV shows, in the movies, in newspapers? Well, all that buzz can be converted into cold hard cash, and if you look at it that way, Twitter is already filthy rich. News monitoring service VMS estimates that Twitter’s mentions in the media were worth $48 million over the past 30 days. That’s about 80 times more than Bing got in the last 30 days ($573,834); in fact, that’s more than Google gets, and Google is a verb, used...
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Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Jobs in Social Media & Digital Marketing
If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage Social Media for Career Success and How to Find a Job on Twitter. But we’d like to help in a more direct way, too. Mashable’s job boards are a place for socially-savvy companies to find people like you. This week and...
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Dazzboard, An Open iTunes For Just About Any Portable Media File (500 Invites)
Finnish startup Linkotec is close to debuting the public beta version of dazzboard, a browser-based media manager that it says has all the goodness of iTunes but without the disadvantages of Apple’s closed environment. Granted, we hear that a lot, but I’ve been invited to take an early peek at what they’ve been cooking and came away fairly impressed. Dazzboard is currently invitation-only but is shooting for a Wednesday release of the public beta version. TechCrunch readers with limited...
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