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Today, we're catching up on recent reports, studies and white papers that seek to enlighten us about searching the mobile web, web advertising via YouTube and other online portals, as well as the hashtag rivers that connect people with the news.

At the Wireless Enterprise Symposium in Orlando yesterday, RIM execs gave attendees a video preview of the company’s new BlackBerry (news, site) 6 operating system for its next-gen handsets.

Social media works, plain and simple. For businesses, it's a trend that represents a marketing opportunity so huge it eclipses the need for intermediaries by connecting companies directly with their customers. Have you taken a proper look at how best to utilize this phenomenon? Read on, we aim to help you. 

One of the biggest paradigm shifts in today’s computing environment is the influence of social networking, and how it affects day-to-day business activities. So how will SharePoint 2010 (news, site) get with the times when it comes to social networking?

Twitter recently held its first-ever developer's conference in San Francisco, and among the highlights was the announcement of open annotations. With the ability to add any kind of metadata to tweets, we're looking at what could be the most disruptive thing to happen to our 140-character friend since, well, the beginning.

SnapLogic (news, site) becomes the latest company to create its own little store front on the burgeoning Web shopping mall to make the data transformation features for its DataFlow solution easier to buy.

To tweet or not to tweet? Is that STILL the question? For many CEOs it is.

According to Forrester Research Chief Executive Officer, George Colony, “within 15 years CEOs will need to know the ins and outs of new media, social network technologies and social communities before they get the job.” As you can imagine his prediction caused a few rumbles from the audience at Thursday’s Forrester Marketing Forum 2010 conference in Los Angeles.

Microsoft’s SMB survey shows spending is definitely in the air but while it looks like they will be investing in technology, many are looking for cost efficiencies through IT department cuts. Iron Mountain gives SMBs litigation support.

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

• Social Media Eating Up More Corporate Bandwidth
• Facebook Unfriends Facebook Lite
• Small Group Accounts For Majority of Brand Impressions
• LinkedIn Launches New Link-Sharing Features

This year for Drupalcon, the organizers felt a little cross-pollination was in order. There are multiple talks that don't in fact feature Drupal (news, site) at all. Instead, the topics revolve around things that the Drupal community can learn from.

One of those talks was offered by Ben Sandofsky (@sandofsky) of Twitter (news, site).

Getting a handle on your social media use and feedback can a big challenge for enterprises -- one that SAS (news, site) has an answer for.

Perhaps it was in celebration of National Library Week that the Library of Congress, the mother of all libraries announced that they’d be archiving all the tweets tweeted since Twitter’s creation in 2006.

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

• Twitter Finally Exposes Money Making Plans
• U.S. Government Agencies Are Free to Use Social Web
• Google Launches Buzz Button
• Who's Winning with Online Identity?

As Twitter (news, site) looks to monetize its vast message base, advertising will start to creep in among those tweets.

Microblogging king, Twitter (news, site) has made some recent noises about expansion and takes the first step by acquiring an iPhone/Mac Twitter client.