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How To Setup A LinkedIn Company Profile Page

LinkedIn is the biggest professional network in the world with over 200 million users, who are mainly affluent and skilled professionals. Some would say that of all the social networks, this is the only one used by serious professionals.

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Meetup Everywhere – An Improved Tool for Communities & Businesses Alike

Meetup has recently undergone an overhaul, with a variety of new features being added and old features tweaked. For those who have yet to make its acquaintance, Meetup

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2010 – An ‘Insane’ Year for FourSquare

Imagine what it would be like to experience 3400% growth in just one year. That’s what FourSquare did in 2010, which demonstrates just how popular this site is becoming.

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Get on the First Page of Google for FREE

Businesses of all size’s and shape want to know how to get on the first page of Google, well now there is a simple, less stressful and inexpensive way to do that.

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The Most Powerful Tweet of 2010: The Year That’s Been

The most powerful individual Tweet of 2010 has been identified as coming from reporter Ann Curry, who encouraged the US Air Force to allow Doctors Without Borders to fly into Haiti after the massive earthquake that devastaged that nation.

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This week in Social Media

We bring you the latest hot Social Media news hitting the headlines this week. Major stories in the news include the latest Twitter statics of 2009/2010, the new and improved Facebook photo tagging system and the new Bing image search feature.

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What’s been making the news over the last week

We bring you the hottest news on the social media scene. Major stories in the news this week includes the Google Zietgiest 2010, US Military’s plan to ban USB drives to stop WikiLeaks happening again, iPad sales to double, and the all new Facebook profile.

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This Week in Social Media

The latest hot Social Media news hitting the headlines this week, Gowalla 3 with Facebook and Foursqaure integration, the new simple file sharing service from ge.tt.

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Hotpot: Google’s New – And Troubled – Recommendation Service

Google has recently launched a new service which allows users to get personalized search results when they do a search for local places. It works by providing the user with search results based on recommendations from friends for example, you might search for a sushi restaurant and see that a certain option has been rated ‘5 stars’ by one of your friends.

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Has Facebook Revolutionised the Way We Communicate Online?

Facebook is currently rolling out its new messaging system, which in the coming months will gradually become available to all users. Instead of offering a revolutionary new method of communication, Facebook will provide a way to easily combine three of the most common communication methods in use today: text messages, e-mails and online chats.

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This Week in Social Media

Major stories in the news this week includes the announcement by Facebook of their new ‘Deals’ for people check-in and out using Facebook Places, LinkedIn Products and Services Recommendation service. and the revoking of Mayorship on FourSquare.

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The Spending Review and the Impact on Community Cohesion

On Thursday 21st of October 2010 the LibCon coalition government put forward a spending cut not seen since the 2nd world war, which will hit the poorest of our society really hard and where it hurts most. The Spending Review announced is designed to save the UK £81bn over the next few years, Chancellor George Osborne confirmed to the houses of Parliament.

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After 30 long years SONY kills the WALKMAN Cassette music player

As music lovers continue to listen using alternative technologies, Sony retires its most famous music listening gadget of all time. The Sony Walkman Cassette player was introduced in 1979 in Japan, and after some slow start,

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Back to the Mac Event but first lets crunch some numbers…

Apple filed its fourth quarter results on Monday 18th October with its highest revenue and earnings ever for Apple Computer. Record sales of Apple Macs, iPhones and iPad’s and the company posted record revenue of $20.34 billion and net quarterly profit of $4.31 billion.

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Are the Smartphones creating a Social Under Class?

New tools such as SatNav, SMS texting, e-mail checking on the move, socialising with friends and colleagues on social networking sites, web access on the move, video and picture taking has made the Smartphones the modern mini computer in the pocket. More and more people are making the choice of owning a sophisticated smart phone.

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Apple iPhone 4 Unleashed

APPLE IPHONE 4 ANNOUNCED WITH A LAUNCH DATE OF 24TH JUNE, A NEW DESIGN, FACETIME, HD VIDEO AND FARMVILLE

After all the leaks the new Apple iPhone has been unveiled by Steve jobs. Its going to be called the iPhone4, no 4g or 4gs, it has been dropped and the thinnest smartphone on the planet is coming out in June.

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Apple iPad Tablet Netbook PC

Is it a Bird, is it a Plane, no its the Apple iPad Tablet, Netbook PC

After all the rumours of the Apple thingy, tablet or netbook computer, Apple today unveiled its new product to the world, the Apple iPad

A cross between a big fat iPod and a hand-held computer, it is powered by Apple’s own processor, the all-new 1GHz Apple A4 chip. At only 0.5 inches thin with a 9.7 inch IPS display, weighting in at 1.5 pounds, the thing looks stunning.

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