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

• FriendFeed Offers Up File Sharing
• New Zealand Mobile Facebook up 700% in Last Five Months
• Flickr Finally Embraces Twitter, Challenges TwitPic
• Small Brands Can Have Facebook Vanity URLs Also

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

• Journalists Don't See The Potential Twitter Has
• Social Network Use Growing and Growing
• EU: Social Networks Need To Beef Up Privacy Practices
• Does your CEO Participate in Social Media?

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

• When 140 Characters Can't Contain Your Tweet
• Social Media Empowering Iranian Citizen Journalists
• Facebook Grants Usernames, Crowd Goes Crazy
• Opera Aims to Re-Invent the Web With Opera Unite

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

• Tools For Business Twitter Usage
• Claim Your Username on Facebook
• Social Networking on Mobiles is Hot
• Twitter Users Are Largely Anti-Social

Do you dream of building a site that's got that special Facebook mojo? You wouldn't be alone. Now you and legions of developers have it one step easier, since Facebook released its Facebook Open Platform into open source. This platform includes their API infrastructure, FQL parser, FBJS and their implementations of various methods and tags.

However, to use this code, you'll need to be aware of the Common Public Attribution License (CPAL), which the Facebook Open Platform was released under.

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

• China Blocks Social Media Sites Ahead of Tienanmen Anniversary
• How Much Longer Can Social Silos Last?
• Debating Whether Social Media Drives Sales
• Havard Study Finds Twitter Behavior Split Between Men and Women
• US Navy Opens Up to Social Media Types

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

• Baby Boomers Turned Off By Facebook?
• Google 'Waves' To Unified Social Communication
• Social Media And It's Affect On Corporate Websites
• Twitter May Start a TV Show

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

• Facebook Verified App Directory Now Live
• Flock is Updated With More Support for Twitter, Other Services
• Facebook Accepts OpenID
• Should You Switch Back To Yahoo! For Search?

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

• Dream Social Media Job Axed
• Twitter Changes Terms, Pisses Off Users
• See All Your Social Profiles on GizaPage
• Facebook Goes Real-Time With Update

We know it, you know it, everyone knows it—social networking is changing the way we connect with friends, family, and almost everyone else in between.

Here to help cut out the “almost” part is CubeTree, a new-ish collaboration suite designed specifically to bridge the gap between the social Web and the enterprise by offering users the best of both worlds. 

Pretend for a minute that you’re not already up to your ears in social networks and take a look at a new offering from Microsoft (news, site). Aptly named Vine, the social tool is designed to connect strings of people for the specific purpose of passing along news.

But this ain’t no140 character good time. Fashioned as a sort of life-support system, Vine’s shtick is to connect users with the people and places they care about the most, when it matters the most: in times of crisis.

 CrownPeak (news, site) is joining the many companies adding social publishing features to their web content managment packages. They allow a company's message to be spread far and wide -- and more importantly, consistently -- across the social Web.

If you’ve ever felt like a fish out of water when it comes to Social Media, it’s probably with good reason, as this method of networking and community interaction has been touted as not only the fastest growing, but also the fastest moving segment in the industry.

With more and more companies attempting to increase their value by incorporating a social network component into their traditional products, understanding how these relate to each other, and their dependencies, isn’t a simple task.

So, if you’ve been waiting on the sidelines until now to get your feet wet in the social media scene, Jeremiah Owyang’s recent storyboard, “Social Reef: An Industry Persepctive,” may just be the arm rings necessary to help you understand this complex eco—or shall we say, techno—system.

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

• Surprise! Twitter Has a High Churn Rate
• W3C Releases Standardized Widgets 1.0 APIs and Events
• Do You Twitter At Work? Hide It!
• Your Company May Need A Social Networking Policy

It is increasingly common to see updates on social sites such as Facebook and Twitter come from people using their mobile devices. Vufone is a new service from NewACT that makes accessing and managing messages, photos and video across a range of social sites a one-stop task.