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Startups are quite adept at turning brands into verbs, or even ordinary verbs into brands. You can now "google" things you want to search for or "tweet" short updates online. Brace yourself for another potential verb that's about to become very popular in the social media scene: buffer. 

Micro-blogging website dynamo Twitter announced today that it will allow visitors to enable the Firefox Browser's Do Not Track feature, allowing users who don't want any info gathered about them to visit the site anonymously.

A recent Adobe survey sees tablet Internet use overtaking smartphones by next year, with tablet-originated data usage running some ten times faster than that of phones. Will the tablet become the dominant form of web access, and what will the upcoming Olympics do to shake up viewing habits?

This week there’s been a number of items, including the partnership between M-Files and goVirtualOffice for NetSuite Integration, Laserfiche has released an app for iPad, Zoho continues to offer social capabilities, Metalogix releases SharePoint Content Manager and Hannon Hill releases Cascade v7.0.

Twitter is purchasing RestEngine, a provider of technology that enables social app publishers to send individually targeted emails to subscribers based on their usage history. Befitting an action performed by a company specializing in 140-character blurbs, neither Twitter nor RestEngine appears to have released any detailed information about the purchase or future plans, but that has not stopped widespread online speculation about the deal.

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Twitter is updating its mobile web interface so that users who connect to the social network via feature phones or other "older" mobile devices can have access to the new version of Twitter which was released in December 2011. Twitter says the new mobile.twitter.com site works at the same speed as the native mobile Twitter apps developed for iPhone and Android, and that it uses one-third less bandwidth than the previous version.

Ever wonder what influences consumer activity -- your friends’ posts or the companies you follow on social media? As it turns out, they are both almost equally influential -- or so says a new study by Market Force.

Content producers can use big data to their advantage when researching relevant ideas, search terms and keywords for their Web writing. Now, one company wants to make it even easier for writers to scour the Internet for the most searchable and insightful ideas that can make any marketing or publishing solution perform as needed. Inbound Writer has added a new module called Topic Buzz -- a Twitter analytics tool for cutting through the social network's stream of information.

If your company wants social data to crunch through in a hurry, it needs access to the raw streams coming from the social media giants. Gnip is doing a great job of syndicating these and has added Tumblr to the likes of Twitter and Facebook feeds that it sells access to.

Google is not exactly a fledgling company. But in the social networking business, the search giant is trumped by relative newcomers Facebook and Twitter in terms of popularity and acceptance among users. Google's social networking offering Google+ is constantly evolving, though, and the latest features introduced are reminiscent of some Twitter and Facebook highlights.

Hashtags are the new black. Twitter users roll them out for things like event coordination or easy following of upcoming conferences and product releases. Now there's a new simple app that uses the hashtag (pound sign #) as a way to interact with Twitter followers in a more useful way.

All those mobile photos now belong to Facebook as the social networking giant snaps up its rapidly expanding rival, which started as a touch-up and share service, and became a social network in its own right.

Twitter Inc. said it's going to court to block five of the most aggressive "spam tool makers" that create software making it easy to spam its community of 140 million active users that generate 340 million tweets per day. The company has filed a Federal lawsuit in San Francisco against five "spam-enablers" including corporations and individuals based both in and outside the U.S.

 The very jumpy Seesmic outfit dumps its enterprise focus and goes hunting in the social space with more work to come on cross-service messaging platform, Seesmic Ping.