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Getting Burnt Out By Social Media: You’re Not Alone and How To Deal With the Wear and Tear

By John Furnari | Published: October 13, 2009
There are literally millions of conversations happening every day, all day, all across the world. wide. web. If you have invested any time into social networking in the past few years; if you have established a Facebook profile, a Twitter account, and any number of other social tools, then you understand how this can very [...]
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You Can Tag Status Updates on Facebook. So Now What?

By John Furnari | Published: September 15, 2009
Facebook forged ahead today in its continued adoption of the features social networking users have come to know and love within the walls of its rival Twitter. Although “within the walls” is likely not a good choice of words, as it’s the openness and ability to conversate outside the confines of one-to-one communication that once [...]
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Wordpress Carries the Blog Torch Into Real-Time Search

By John Furnari | Published: September 8, 2009
Yesterday Wordpress announced their enabling of the RSS Cloud specification on all post feeds (and forthcoming on comment feeds). Today we turned on support for all 7.5 million blogs on WordPress.com something called RSS Cloud, which is basically a way for people to get push notification that your feed has updated. Why is this important? Right now [...]
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Facebook Tearing Down the Gated Walls

By John Furnari | Published: July 1, 2009
Today Facebook will announce a significant shift in its approach on privacy vs. public display.  This will be just as much a shift in community culture and the way users on the most popular social network communicate. For years Facebook has stood firm on maintaining a sense of structure and privacy where its users only rubbed [...]
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Social Media and #IranElection

By John Furnari | Published: June 15, 2009
So much of what is happening in Iran this week brings up the word “revolutionary”.  Nowhere more so than in the profound effect that social media is having on the situation and the world’s understanding of it. Ten years ago we would have read in the papers this morning that a controversy had erupted in Iran.  [...]
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