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• Foursquare Introduces New Tools for Businesses - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 22 hours ago
  Foursquare, a location-based social network, plans to distribute a free analytics tool and dashboard in the coming weeks that will give business owners access to a range of information and statistics about visitors to their establishments.
  
• Master List (A Wiki of Social Media Monitoring Solutions) 2010/03/11
  A Wiki of Social Media Monitoring Solutions
  
• How Are Companies Leveraging Social Media? / Flowtown (@flowtown) 2010/03/11
  Ever wonder how big businesses are leveraging social media? Burson-Martseller recently released a report highlighting the Fortune Global 100 companies and how they were using social platforms including: Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. We have complied a graphic illustrating the most interesting of their findings:
  
• Blews - what the blogosphere tells you about news - Microsoft Research 2010/03/09
  While typical news-aggregation sites do a good job of clustering news stories according to topic, they leave the reader without information about which stories figure prominently in political discourse. BLEWS uses political blogs to categorize news stories according to their reception in the conservative and liberal blogospheres. It visualizes information about which stories are linked to from conservative and liberal blogs, and it indicates the level of emotional charge in the discussion of the news story or topic at hand in both political camps.
  
• How the Global Fortune 100 are using social media: some statistics | FreshNetworks Blog|Social media agency|Online communities 2010/03/08
  survey from global PR firm Burson-Marsteller this week looks at the ways in which the Global Fortune 100 companies are using social media. The tools they are using and how they are developing a social media strategy.
  
• Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod 2010/03/05
  The iPad changes the experience formula.(Fig. 5) It brings the excellent text readability of the iPhone/Kindle to a larger canvas. It combines the intimacy and comfort of reading on those devices with a canvas both large enough and versatile enough to allow for well considered layouts.
  
• RadarVirtuel.com 2010/03/04
  oh wauv.. live updated avition geolocation map!
  
• Exclusive: How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web | Magazine 2010/02/27
  The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to rate pages based on the number and importance of links that pointed to them — to use the collective intelligence of the Web itself to determine which sites were most relevant. It was a simple and powerful concept, and — as Google quickly became the most successful search engine on the Web — Page and cofounder Sergey Brin credited PageRank as their company’s fundamental innovation.
  
• The World's Biggest Signpost on Vimeo 2010/02/27
  Making of - The Worlds Biggest Signpost
  
• The 99 Percent - It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen. 2010/02/27
  At 99%, Behance's think tank, we focus on what happens after inspiration—researching the forces that truly push ideas forward. Our profiles of proven idea makers, action-oriented tips, best-practices sessions, and annual conference are all designed to help you transform ideas from vision to reality.