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Top 10 of the World's Theme Parks Battle for Social Dominance

Theme parks operators have a great synergy with social media.... keep coming up with cool stuff for people to play with and they will return billions of dollars in global word-of-mouth advertising. According to the Travel and Leisure, the Magic Kingdom is still the world's No. 1 most popular theme park,...

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It's Official - CoffeePledge Steam Reaches 300K Cups

CoffeePledge broke the 300K cups milestone officially at 5:23pm EST today, with its more than 40,000 user accounts. The world's first social media movement to leverage the coffee industry to fight cancer, is merely in its first 90 days of birth, and has already begun to build steam with social...

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Starbucks is a Growing Brand Favorite on the CoffeePledge Network

As the total cups pledged continue to add up... so do the user requests to add favorite coffee brands to the cause. As of today, 44,000+ users nationwide have pledged to purchase more than 322,000 cups during CoffeeWeek 2011, to support the fight against cancer. Users have selected Starbucks as...

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Top 10 Tweets While Facebook Was Down

Facebook crashed on Thursday, September 23, 2010. With its 500 million + users up in arms, die-hard Twitter users and rookies alike took advantage of the situation. The humor varied from witty to snarky, from observant to lame. Many claimed they "didn't care" or made snide remarks about the people...

By Jacki Semerau | Contributor

Tag, You're Here! Opting Out of Facebook Places Tagging Feature.

Facebook Places was rolled out last week as the new way to check-in and share your location with everyone on your Facebook Friends list. Did you know that one of the features of Facebook Places is that your friends can tag you at a location? What does that mean for...

By Jacki Semerau | Contributor

Facebook Places: Don't Place Your Privacy at Risk

While Facebook has busy making a big deal about design changes to Business Pages, they have very quietly rolled out a new geolocation feature that effects all 500 million personal profiles. Called Facebook Places, this new feature allows Facebook users to check-in and share their exact location with other Facebook...

By Jacki Semerau | Contributor

Internet Addicts more Likely to be Depressed [REPORT]

Teenagers who spend excessive amounts of time on the Internet are one and a half times more likely to develop depression than moderate web users, a study in China has found.Researcher Lawrence Lam described some of the signs of excessive use spending at least five to more than 10 hours...

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Social Networking More Popular Than E-Mail [REPORT]

Americans now spend more time using social networks and online games than they do on e-mail, according to a Monday report from Nielsen.In June, U.S. Internet users spent about 22.7 percent of their online time on social networking sites, up from 15.8 percent just one year ago, the report said,...

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Google going after Facebook with a 'NEW' Social Network

Google Inc has held talks with gaming companies as it looks to develop a new service to compete with social networking website Facebook, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter.The Internet giant has had talks with makers of online games for the service including...

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CBS Entertainment using Social Media to find their Next Big Hit

CBS entertainment president Nina Tassler said on Wednesday the top-rated TV network was "restless, motivated and paranoid" about developing new shows and looking increasingly to social networking and the Internet for its next big hits.At a time when traditional television audiences are being lured away by the Internet, videogames and...

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