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Smarter Healthcare: How Social Media is Revolutionizing Your Doctor Visits

Monday, October 5th, 2009

The Smarter Cities series is supported by IBM. Read more about building a smarter planet on the IBM A Smarter Planet Blog

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Facebook Voice Chat App Now Live in Beta

Monday, October 5th, 2009

A few weeks ago, we learned that Facebook was going to get voice chat . The new feature wasn’t going to be powered by Facebook itself though, but rather through Vivox , a well-known voice chat provider for video games and the Second Life virtual world. Today, Vivox Voice Facebook app has launched in beta

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Facebook Voice Chat App Now Live in Beta

Can Social Media Take a CBS Anchor 3000 Miles?

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Could you find your way home across 3000 miles armed with only Qik, Twitter, Skype and $50? That’s the experiment CBS News weather anchor David Price has just embarked on .

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Can Social Media Take a CBS Anchor 3000 Miles?

A Posse Ad Esse: Facebook Now Supports Latin

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

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

LIVESTRONG Day: 5 Ways to Get Involved

Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Today, Friday, October 2, 2009, is LIVESTRONG Day 2009. The event is a part of the LIVESTRONG Action campaign designed to bring together people from all over the world to celebrate survivorship, commit to fighting cancer, spread the word, and work towards a world without cancer. The goal of the day is to make cancer a global priority, and to get everyone not just talking about change, but actually taking action towards cancer prevention, treatment, and care

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#BlameEthansCancer: Twitter Takes on Cancer, Round 2

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

If you’ve been a long-time user of Twitter, you’ve probably seen the #BlameDrewsCancer hashtag. It’s part of a campaign by Drew Olanoff , who was diagnosed with cancer on May 20th of this year. Instead of wallowing about the news, he started his campaign to “beat up on Cancer” in order to spread awareness via Twitter and raise money for worthy charities, including Livestrong .

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HOW TO: Get Started with Google Wave

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Google Wave has arrived . The real-time communication platform has been one of the hottest and most anticipated products in the tech and social media space for months

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Twitter Begins Attaching Locations to Tweets

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

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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Duck-Clown-Fern: Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter Killer [Parody Video]

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

We all know that Twitter’s become one of the most powerful communication tools on the web. But even 140 characters can be too long and difficult for some people. That’s why we’ve covered other “alternatives” to Twitter, such as the 26-character Flutter

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Duck-Clown-Fern: Ashton Kutcher’s Twitter Killer [Parody Video]

Twitter to Launch User Created Follow Lists

Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

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