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As mentioned in a previous post, Microsoft now has a partnership with Twitter and Facebook, allowing it to access status updates and display them in Bing’s search results. The announcement was made yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco by Qi Lu, the President of Microsoft’s Online Services Group. The ...

Update: Microsoft has officially announced a deal with Twitter AND Facebook, allowing Bing to index and display status updates from both services in its search results. Danny Sullivan has a closer look at the added features and the potential future of Bing search (social search). Google also announced a deal with Tw...

Today I experienced a phenomenon that erased any doubt I may have had about the power of social media. I usually come across several blog posts and am on twitter throughout the day. This morning, I stumbled across a post about an unruly London Underground employee who got into a verbal altercation with an elderly pa...

Website: Monitoring Social Media

Overview:With the phenomenal growth of social networks, blogging, video & image-sharing and micro-blogging, Social Media Monitoring (SMM) is becoming one of the hottest areas of marketing and PR innovation. Enabling companies to listen to conversations, track trends, engage with cons...

I am a big fan of movies or TV shows with arch rivals enemies as great villains make the hero look even better. And think about it: What would be Batman without the Joker? So I really appreciate the rivalry between Facebook and Twitter even if it appears more to be an obsession of Facebook for the micro blogging ser...

Mums are truly a double edge sword: they can be the sweetest thing on the planet or the most annoying, painful nuisance. We all have stories of our mum being a bit smothering up to a point we had to deal with it. Unfortunately for today’s teenagers the social media era means that mums can stalk their offspring all...

We heard it so many times: Twitter is not useful at all! Well, here is the thing that can prove you wrong. The Twestival gathers charity events that will take place all around the world between the 10^th and 13^th of September 2009 (This week). The goal of these events is to raise as much money as possible for chariti...

On August 5^th one of the co-founders of Twitter, Evan Williams, gave an interview to BBC Newsnight, explaining the nature of the platform and the future development of it. What was interesting for us Londoners is that he asserted that London was for the second year in a row the Twitter capital of the world. It sound...

If there is one thing that empassions the social media world, it is to predict what will be the next big thing, and in this case what will come after Twitter. And it seems this microcosm is quite excited by a mobile/GPS based application called Foursquare. The aim of this location based social network is to push peo...