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NewsGator (news, sites) announced the beta release of their SharePoint-based social computing platform, Social Sites 3.0 in late June. At that time they announced two new features: Socialpedia and Knowledge Explorer. With general availability starting today, there's another new feature added to the 3.0 mix: micro-blogging.

Is this enough to make you choose NewsGator over some other SharePoint enabled social computing platform? Here are a couple of other things that may sway you.

When you think of the rebellious and loose nature by which blogging is often described, it might be that Las Vegas is the perfect location for the Second Annual BlogWorld and New Media Expo.

Scheduled for September 20, adding to what is already a busy weekend for bloggers, the expo will feature advice, insight and experiences as shared by senior executives from Fortune 500 companies and industry thought leaders, all of whom attendees can learn a thing or two about how to implement social media.

Ma.gnolia, a free social bookmarking service, has recently announced plans for a complete rewrite of their social bookmarking system that will lead to improved maintenance, expandability, customization and monetization. With so much work and such little time, Ma.gnolia certainly has its hands full with all the things planned for the future.

In an effort to save advertisers, who are predicted to “waste” an estimated 4.5 billion dollars US on paid search advertising in 2008, WebTrends has released WebTrends Ad Director. In fact it was Ad Director who helped predict the very estimation it is poised to prevent.

Political National Conventions are the unlikeliest of venues to find anything noteworthy or novel, but the Democrats’ party this time around comes with a new and quite interesting entertainment. The addition of a bunch of ‘grass-roots mobile bloggers’ will post video, pictures, opinion and coverage direct from the Convention floor to a central hub at Zannel.com called the PoliticsBlue channel. Not a groundbreaking idea, really. More an inevitable and welcome addition to the modern media landscape. But potentially a watershed event which will herald new media adoption among the technophobe proles.