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XKCD-Inspired Cartoon Maps the World’s Social Networks [PIC]

Social Media This cartoon map shows the relative sizes of social networks based on real 2010 user data, and does so in a quirky and amusing way.

August 11, 2010 Samuel Axon View Comments

5 Tips for Job Seekers on Corporate Social Networks

Business Anne Berkowitch is co-founder and CEO of SelectMinds, the leading provider of networking and referral technologies and of the recently launched TalentVine referral recruiting solution. You can follow SelectMinds on Twitter at @SelectMinds. …

July 9, 2010 Anne Berkowitch View Comments

Is Facebook Getting Bigger Than Google? [STATS]

Social Media According to the analysts at Hitwise, social networks in general are more popular than search engines in some parts of the world.

In fact, networks such as FacebookFacebook have been pushing hard against the biggest names in web search,…

June 8, 2010 Jolie O'Dell View Comments

Why Facebook Must Get Serious About Privacy

Social Media Dallas Lawrence is Managing Director of Burson-Marsteller’s Proof Integrated Communications. He is a Mashable contributor on emerging media trends, online reputation management and digital issue advocacy. You can connect with him on Twitter @dallaslawrence.

The recent…

May 23, 2010 Dallas Lawrence View Comments

Gink: The Next Great Social Network? [PARODY]

Sketch troupe Derrick Comedy has tackled social networking as the topic of their latest video by creating the next next-generation social network: Gink. What is Gink? Well, it’s simple, really: “Gink is a fun made-up word, combining the words gibble…

May 15, 2010 Barb Dybwad View Comments

Social Media Parenting: Raising the Digital Generation

Social Media Who are your kids friending on Facebook? What are they really texting to their classmates? How much online time is too much?

Too often, parents who are misinformed about the social web (willfully or otherwise) will shut their…

May 13, 2010 Matt Silverman View Comments

How Big Live Promises Big Change for Online Music Fans

Entertainment Sheila Marikar is a writer based in New York. She covers entertainment and lifestyle for ABCNews.com, The Huffington Post and more. Follow her on Twitter.

Summer concert season calls, with its far-flung fairgrounds, scorching sun, and pricey passes.…

May 6, 2010 Sheila Marikar View Comments

Gowalla CEO Talks About the Future of Social Media [INTERVIEW]

Social Media Josh Williams, the grinning, long-haired CEO of the rapidly growing geo-social application Gowalla, is the kind of guy who wears flower shirts and cowboy boots under a sports jacket when he goes to New York for meetings. Outdoorsy and…

April 30, 2010 Shane Snow View Comments

5 Reasons Google and Search Won’t Dominate The Next Decade

Social Media Yuli Ziv is the founder & CEO of Style Coalition, a network of independent online publishers in the fashion and lifestyle vertical, based in NYC. She blogs on social media, entrepreneurship and tech at YuliZiv.com. Follow…

April 29, 2010 Yuli Ziv View Comments

Ning: Failures, Lessons and Six Alternatives

Social Media Ning, the network of social networks that boasted 20 million visitors a month, is making massive staff cutbacks and has announced a complete end to free services for its users. Those who pay for premium services will be asked to…

April 18, 2010 Jolie O'Dell View Comments

Why Banning Social Media Often Backfires

Social Media Humans have a natural proclivity to want what they cannot have. Our insatiable appetite for sharing information, combined with the nearly limitless ways to access the web have thus far frustrated the most sophisticated attempts to block access to social…

April 13, 2010 Greg Ferenstein View Comments

How a Facebook Group Helped Reunite a Band for Charity

Social Media Josh Sternberg is the founder of Sternberg Strategic Communications and authors The Sternberg Effect. You can follow him on Twitter.

In July 2008, David Katz, an investment firm employee in New York City, searched…

April 3, 2010 Josh Sternberg View Comments

VIDEO PRODUCER/EDITOR at TMG (District of Columbia)

Jobs TMG Custom Media, based in Washington, D.C., and one of the country’s leading custom-media firms, seeks a “triple threat” producer, shooter and editor to create quality online videos for a variety of ...

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Zerista Offers Mobile-Optimized Social Media Tools for Groups

Mobile DEMO Spring 2010 officially kicks off on Monday morning, but at the welcome reception earlier tonight, we got a chance to meet with some of the companies that will be presenting their products over the next two days.

One…

March 22, 2010 Christina Warren View Comments

Yelp for Business: 4 Steps for Success

Business This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

For local small businesses, YelpYelp isn’t just an option — it’s…

March 20, 2010 Samuel Axon View Comments

Social Networking Usage Surges Globally [STATS]

Social Media According to the Nielsen Company, the global average time spent per person on social networking sites is now nearly five and half hours per month (February 2010 data), with Facebook accounting for the majority of that time. That’s…

March 19, 2010 Jennifer Van Grove View Comments

6 Ways Law Enforcement Uses Social Media to Fight Crime

Social Media Lon S. Cohen is a freelance writer and is @obilon on Twitter. He’s also the Director of Communications at @ALSofGNY.

From felons on Facebook to tips through Twitter, social media is being used more and more…

March 17, 2010 Lon S. Cohen View Comments

9 Killer Tips for Location-Based Marketing

Mobile Social networking has finally become something valuable for brick-and-mortar businesses. Smartphones and location-based social networks allow users to interact, share, meet up, and recommend places based on their physical coordinates. This real-world connection to social media can mean more foot…

March 15, 2010 Shane Snow View Comments