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Smarter Healthcare: How Social Media is Revolutionizing Your Doctor Visits

History is littered with good ideas that didn’t work out because they were ahead of their time. Tablet PCs didn’t work out a decade ago, but with technology advances, they’re poised to make a comeback . Microsoft’s local information web site Sidewalk.com was a bust in 1997, but now sites like Yelp and Google Maps offer local information that many people couldn’t fathom living without.

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Facebook Wave: Why Facebook Should Clone Google Wave

Facebook’s been on a multilingual tear recently. Ever since Facebook launched its Facebook Translations app , where Facebook users could help translate the social network into the world’s many languages, Facebook has added support for everything from Hebrew to Persian to even Pirate Speak

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A Posse Ad Esse: Facebook Now Supports Latin

Much like the Energizer Bunny, seemingly nothing can stop ex-lawyer Jack Thompson — not even disbarment . According to the Escapist , Thompson has set his sights on a new target for litigation: Facebook

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Jack Thompson Sues Facebook, Cites Personal Safety

A little over a month ago, Twitter announced that it would be attaching locations to tweets in an effort to become a stronger geolocation tool. The company said that it would attach a latitude and a longitude to a user’s tweets, if they opted into the geolocation feature. But nobody knew when the feature would go live

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Twitter Begins Attaching Locations to Tweets

The Smarter Cities series is supported by IBM. Read more about building a smarter planet on the IBM A Smarter Planet Blog . Social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and even email, instant messaging, and SMS have become the defacto way we communicate with each other

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Virtual Neighborhood Watch: How Social Media is Making Cities Safer

One of the challenges that new Twitter users face is finding interesting users to follow. There are several third-party tools to help you do it (like Lunch and TweepML ), but we’d love for Twitter lists to come from the source — Twitter itself. And soon they will.

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Twitter to Launch User Created Follow Lists

One of the first problems new users have upon joining Twitter is figuring out who to follow. And even power users who’ve been using the service for a while appreciate being turned on to other Twitter users with similar interests.

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Lunch’s Twitter Lists Help Find Who to Follow

Nielsen, which previously concluded that social networking is more popular than email , recently set out to prove that social media decreases email use. After analyzing four distinct online population groups and their email consumption rates over a year, the research disproved their original hypothesis and instead found that “ social media use makes people consume email more – particularly for the highest social media users.” The study looked at minutes of email consumption per person as compared with their social media usage, concluding that high social media consumers are also mega email consumers, with the research charting a massive upward tick from 110 minutes of email consumption in December 2008 to over 180 minutes in April 2009

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STUDY: Social Media Leads to More Time Spent on Email

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section . Is your event not on this list?

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Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media Events