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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.

This Week:

• How Obama Won the Online War
• Web 2.0 Summit Updates: Zuckerburg and Yang
• Happy 5th Birthday Delicious!
• Health 2.0 You Say?
• How Will Twitter Make Money #1,000,123
• Following the Election on Twitter Sucked

How Barack Obama Won the Online War

We all know that the President-elect has changed the game in terms of how elections are run, embracing the youth vote through the social tools which they use to communicate and raising millions in campaign funds through omnipresent widgets. No serious electoral candidate in future will go to war without having a serious social media strategy, and without thinking seriously about how to coin it from online contributions.

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

This Week:

• MySpace to Trounce Facebook With US$1 Billion ‘08 Sales
• Jobs Cut at Seesmic, but Digg is Hiring
• Twitter Gets New CEO
• Yahoo! Launches New Profiles, Social Strategy
• Browser Wars 1: New FireFox Beta 3.1 has Geolocation API
• Browser Wars 2: Flock Upgrade
• Twitter-Watch: Joe the Plumber

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

This week:

• Credit Crises Harming Web Startups?
• Microsoft Prepares for the Cloud
• A New Look to StumbleUpon
• Citizen Journalism’s Epic Failure
• Apple Tosses NDAs to Developers’ Delight

Social Media moves so fast, its hard to keep up. Here’s the weeks news from the trenches in scan-friendly format.

This week:

• Facebook Flip-Flops Over New Design
• Enterprise Microblogger Yammer Scoops Techcrunch50 Top Prize
• New iTunes is Genius. Especially for those with half a brain.
• Google Apps on Blackberry (as discovered at RWW for Pastors)
• Google Mobile Search with My Location
• The Best of Friendfeed

Facebook Flip-flops Over New Design

The new Facebook UI is splitting opinion down the middle. Half of all users despise it. The other half merely really hate it. So it comes as no surprise that the company has postponed plans to impose the new design on all users from this week, and has murmered something about D-day being postponed for ‘a few more weeks.’

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

This week:

• Delicious 2.0 Here at Last
• Lessons Learned from Cuil: How Not to Launch
• ClearStep: Social Media in the Enterprise
• Mobile Web Viruses Alert
• Twitter Displays its Power in Breaking News

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

This week:

• Google Knol
• Facebook/Microsoft search deal
• Loopt’s cheaper GPS deal
• Google buying Digg?
• New APIs/developer platforms
• It’s a Miracle! Apparition of Robert Scoble in a Grilled Cheese Sandwich!

Social Media moves so fast, it’s hard to keep up. Have a look at the big stories over the past week (…and a bit), in scan-friendly format.