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Today, parts of the Internet have gone dark in protest of proposed SOPA and PIPA legislation. From 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., many sites are showing their solidarity by blacking out their sites and redirecting users to sign online petitions or encouraging them to contact their congressperson to voice their concerns.

HootSuite is a popular professional Twitter client that is aimed at users who Tweet, use Facebook or Linkedin on behalf of organizations. HootSuite has become very popular those who manage communities or for Twitter power-users who maintain more than one account. In an effort to become even more pervasive and developer friendly, HootSuite has launched an App directory that lists tools and web services that extend the capabilities of HootSuite.

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

•  Half of Americans Use Social Media
•  Beyonce Causes New Twitter Record
•  Flickr Enhances Location Security With Geofences
•  Beyonce Causes New Twitter Record

Twitter (news, site) continues its rampage across the micro-messaging ecosystem by adding its own picture uploading and sharing feature.

This week, the line between enterprise tool and child's play gets very blurry. The iPad 2 is now available at Toys R Us stores nationwide. Now, back to our regularly scheduled news...

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

• Young Adults: We Get Our News Online
• Facebook Handled 750 Million Photos Over News Year's Weekend
• By 2015: 1/3 Of Americans Will Own a Tablet
• Mobile Photo Apps Explode Onto Social Web

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

• Web Service StumbleUpon Hits 12 Million Users
• Flickr Embraces Google Logins
• Study: Social Networking Isn't Killing In Person Social Lives
• When Are Facebook Users Actively Engaged?

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

• Social Networking Use Up While at Work
• Picnik Cloud-Based Image Editing Comes To Picasa
• Microsoft Outlook Integrates Facebook
• TweetDeck Passes 15 Million Downloads

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

• Share Flickr Photos on Facebook
• Parody BP Twitter Account Told to Identify Themselves
• Facebook Wants You to Add More Friends
• Vocus Acquires Help a Report Out

Canto's (news, site) new Cumulus Sites DAM manager helps companies get their assets to specific people, groups or the whole world, quickly and efficiently.

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.

 Here’s something cool to contemplate as you brave the hump in the week: visual conversation. Picture sharing is everywhere—on Twitter, on various messaging services, on your cell phones.

Among the services supporting the movement is Radar, a small but rapidly growing photo sharing service. And by rapidly we mean that they just integrated with superstar Flickr, so growth is a-comin’ and it’s a-comin’ fast. 

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Here’s the week’s top stories, in scan-friendly format.

This week:

• TechCrunch Is Full of What?
• Social Networking Attracts 75% of Online Europeans - comScore
• Zcapes Launches Microblogging/Activity Stream Service For Mobile Web
• Baby Boomers Using Social Media
• Yelp.com Outed For Mafia-Like Extortion

There are a number of really great services that allow you to search images and videos hosted on specific sites like YouTube and Flickr. Some examples are Wibe7.tv, PicClick and Compfight and though all of them are useful in their own right, none hold a candle to the visually stimulating Cooliris. We’re talking of course about Cooliris’ infamous 3D wall and browserless environment. (Think gigantic interactive media viewer in 2002's "Minority Report")

Imagine then, our delightful surprise at learning about CoolFlick, a Cooliris-powered image search engine with similar eye-pleasing aesthetics. What’s even better? With CoolFlick there’s no downloading necessary.

Kaltura, the platform that brought open source to video and enabled groups to edit and collaborate with online video, has released a video module for the open source Drupal CMS.

Kaltura is a popular video platform used by blogging platforms like WordPress and now Drupal sites. The platform is similar to Viddler, which allows video users to annotate, remix and interact with online video media, all within a Flash-based editor.