Soldiers Now Allowed To Tweet

The new rules authorize access to Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social media Web sites from nonclassified government computers — as long as such activity doesn’t compromise operational security or involve prohibited activities or Web sites.

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Trend: Haul Videos

Haul videos are the democratization of the home shopping network. They typically feature teen girls just back from the mall, shopping bag in hand, gushing over their purchases (or “haul”) to their webcam to be uploaded to YouTube for the world to see.

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Twitter Wants Me To Be More Findable

Twitter is asking me to make my profile more findable by filling completing my profile information (which is, of course, already complete) but they also want me to make my phone number and my email address public.

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Twitter Traffic Up 9% After Google Real-Time Search Launch

ComScore data show the number of unique visitors to Twitter increased by 9 percent from December 2009 to January 2010. The 21.79 million unique Twitter visitors in January was an all-time high, just over the 21.25 million visitors that comScore tracked in July 2009.

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Google Buzz Impressions

It is far too early to know what the implications are for Google Buzz’s entry into the online landscape nor what its influence will be.

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