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		<title><![CDATA[Twitter's Stone: No Sale But IPO, Alternatives Are Possible]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Twitter&#8217;s generous investors&#8212;the latest round was $100 million&#8212;may be pleased to hear that &#8220;2010 is really going to be the revenue year&#8221; for the high-profile startup. Or so Biz Stone, one of three cofounders, told reporters at Oxford University Monday, the latest stop on a talky tour of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:50:51 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[B-To-B Search Site Zubican Purchased By Inuvo]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Business-to-business community site Zubican has been purchased by performance-based online marketer Inuvo. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, although Inuvo says it will pay a royalty based on a &#8220;percentage of the gross profit derived from the site over a four-year peirod.&#8221; Zubican, which launched in 2008, had...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:05:38 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[LinkedIn Opens Up To Developers]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ LinkedIn wants a bigger developer community to build up around its social network. The company is announcing that third-party developers will now be able to integrate the professional social network on their own business apps and websites. As Venturebeat points out, LinkedIn already let developers build apps on LinkedIn,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:45:58 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Zynga Launches Standalone Game Site, Sheds Light On Virtual Goods Business]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Seemingly unfazed by a looming class-action lawsuit triggered by allegations of misleading ads, social gamer Zynga has launched FarmVille.com, its first standalone game site. Previously, players had to be fully logged in to Facebook or MySpace to play a Zynga game; the new FarmVille.com site uses Facebook Connect to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:02:30 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jason Goldberg Leaving Xing After A Year; New Startup & Investments]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Jason Goldberg, the chief product officer of Xing, the European biz social network that Burda just bought a big stake in, is leaving the company with this deal, about 12 months after his social news startup Socialmedian was sold to the Germany-headquartered company. The Socialmedian sale price at that...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:40:48 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ESPN.com's Bill Simmons Gets A Twitter Time Out, Sort Of]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Part of the joy of following Bill Simmons on Twitter is the feeling that he doesn&#8217;t hold back&#8212;that, plus not only he can be snarky as all get out when the occasion demands, his tweets, snarky or not, are usually spot on. (He has one of the highest &#8220;repeat...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:17:09 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Facebook, Zynga Face Class-Action Suit Over Offer-Based Ads]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Offer-based ads seemed to be the secret to monetizing social games&#8212;and social network users, in general&#8212;that standard banner ads couldn&#8217;t provide. But amid ongoing accusations that the ads actually &#8220;scammed&#8221; users into paying for things they didn&#8217;t want and giving up their personal info, comes the inevitable: a class-action...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:42:49 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[College Admissions Site MyFit Raises $1 Million]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ MyFit has raised $1 million in a round led by VC firm New Enterprise Associates. The site takes the information a student enters like GPA or SAT scores and returns a student&#8217;s chances of getting in&#8212;and fitting in&#8212;at various colleges (It cross references the data with information gathered from...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Ten Step Social Media Marketing Checklist | BTalk Australia]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[podcast] Ross Kimbarovsky, co-founder of crowdSPRING takes us through the 10 things you need to know about social media marketing. by Phil Dobbie]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:06:06 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Adknowledge Shopping Spree Continued With SocialMedia Acquisition]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Online ad firm Adknowledge has bought SocialMedia, a company that runs ad platforms on apps and games, Techcrunch reported. SocialMedia will continue to operate its ad platform on social nets, although its participating publishers&#8217; inventory will be transferred to Adknowledge. This is Adknowledge&#8217;s fourth acquisition within the past few...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:30:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Microsoft Brings Social Networks?Starting With LinkedIn?To Outlook]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ With more people turning to social networks to communicate, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is adding a new feature to the next version of Outlook so that users can track the activities of contacts on social networks from within their e-mail inboxes. The feature&#8212;called Outlook Social Connector&#8212;aggregates social networking updates, a...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[NYT Phases Out Times Extra; Looking For Other Ways To Aggregate]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The NYTimes.com will close the curtain on its homepage aggregation tool, Times Extra aggregation feature on Dec. 1, a year after it began beta testing the feature. Although Times Extra is still being promoted on the homepage, a note detailing the phase out tells users that they&#8217;ll still be...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Fox Turns To TypePad Bloggers To Hype New Movie,  'Avatar']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Twentieth Century Fox is going social to promote its upcoming film, AVATAR, by partnering with TypePad owner Six Apart, to launch branded blogs and micro-blogs. AVATAR fans can get branded themes for their blogs, as well as trailers, behind-the-scenes clips, and news updates about the film, which launches in...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[First Look: Zune, Twitter, Facebook And Last.fm On Xbox]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Four months after announcing the features, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) added social networking and music radio functionality to its Xbox 360 console on Tuesday, along with the first European foray for its Zune brand see earlier reports from Tameka and I. Here are my initial explorations with each new service&#8230;Last.fm...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:10:57 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Video-based chat service Paltalk has acquired Vumber, a service that provides &#8220;disposable&#8221; phone numbers. Terms weren&#8217;t disclosed. New York-based PalTalk began working with Vumber last February. Vumber&#8217;s service promises privacy and an additional layer of call-screening for people who use dating sites, online personals and chat-rooms. By tying up...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:01:23 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Where Your Customers Are: How Facebook, Twitter and Others Break Down by Age]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do your homework before you approach your customers online. Here's how users on the top social media sites broke down by age in August 2009.               by Staci Baird]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Zynga Adds $15.1 Million More In Funding]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ What ... me worry about &#8220;scammy&#8221; ad accusations? Social gamer Zynga may be struggling with an image problem stemming from its offer-based in-game ads, but an SEC filing shows that the company just got a fresh influx of cash&#8212;$15.1 million in a third round of funding&#8212;so clearly, its investors...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[RockYou Raises $50 Million In Fourth Round]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Social networking app firm RockYou has raised $50 million in a fourth round of funding led by Softbank, TechCrunch reports. RockYou&#8217;s apps span all the major social networks; it also runs an ad network, which it claimed reached more than 178 million users last month, up from 130 million...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Punchbowl To Add Local Party Vendor Listings With I'm In Acquisition]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Punchbowl Software, parent company of events-planning site MyPunchbowl.com, has acquired rival group travel planning and events site I&#8217;m In. The deal includes I&#8217;m In&#8217;s code, domain, registered user base and trademarks&#8212;but not the founders or management team&#8212;as they&#8217;ve gone on to pursue &#8220;new opportunities&#8221;&#8212;per an acquisition FAQ pdf. Financial...]]></description>
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