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Does the athlete who wins the most Olympic medals also win the most social media clicks per day?

The team behind Bit.ly, a popular link shortener, has been diligently working on turning its giant collection of link data into valuable offerings. Yesterday, it announced the beta launch of two of them: a search platform and reputation monitoring service specifically for "viral" content.

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• More Facebook Users "Liking" Items
• Google+ Traffic Falls 60%
• HootSuite Now Supports LinkedIn
• Twitter to Shorten Every URL Using t.co

URL shortening service Bit.ly (news, site) has acquired automated social media broadcaster Twitterfeed (news, site), moving from URL analytics towards channel delivery, thus extending its  intelligence capabilities into the burgeoning social media sphere. Customer experience managers should be pleased.

And now for another announcement in the white-hot world of....URL shortening? Yep. In the second URL shortener announcement this week, bit.ly (news, site) is announcing that its bit.ly Pro service, which lets organizations set up custom short domains, is now going to be free. 

Things happen quickly in the industry, including changes in employment. Here's a quick and dirty list of the biggest moves that hit our radar over the last couple of weeks:

 Popular link-shortening service Bit.ly (news, site) is aiming to attract some enterprise-y attention after Twitter (news, site) quit using it as its default service. The attempt comes in the form of a new analytics dashboard, which allows Web publishers to track the distribution of their links on a per-story basis: 

Social media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here are the week's top stories in scan-friendly format:

• RSS Dead, Twitter Done it?
• Twitter Search to Be Tweaked
• Ning Adds Applications To Social Platform
• Bit.ly Replaces TinyURL as Default Twitter Shortener
• Retailers Favoring Social Media vs. Search for Marketing