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NEW YORK - The Wall Street Journal is borrowing elements from popular Internet hangouts like Facebook as it seeks to boost usage.

WSJ.com, one of the few news sites to restrict many of its stories to paying subscribers, is changing its layout to help nonpaying visitors navigate and identify free, ad-supported content. Those [...]

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Jon Rognerud recently had the distinct pleasure of speaking to one of the Masters of Social Media, Brent Csutoras. He’s a leading internet marketing consultant who primarily specializes in social media, viral and search engine marketing strategies.
Not only does he enjoy speaking on the topic, but he has a deep understanding and [...]

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More than one-half of adults surveyed in 17 countries do not know what social networking is, according to Synovate. The company said it asked over 13,000 consumers in Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, Taiwan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the [...]

Ping.fm is a super tool that allows you to post to multiple Social networks and Blog services at once. Either through their interface or via email. So instead of say, updating your FaceBook status, then logging into Twitter and updating there too, you can update all at once. Ping.fm has recently added some great new [...]

Does the world really need another social network? Konnects certainly thinks so. The startup formally launched its site Wednesday with the aim of filling what it views as a gap in the marketplace between business-focused LinkedIn and socially driven Facebook.

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The race for the 2008 presidential elections is definitely warming up as political candidates from both the Republican and the Democrat parties are harnessing the power of social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook and YouTube.  Candidates are utilizing these sites to reach out and connect with as many people as possible - or, [...]