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That means we're gluttons for blogs, social networks, social bookmarks, wikis, user-generated video, photo-sharing, and everything Web 2.0.

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45,025 comments! I’m so popular!

Friday, June 12th, 2009 by Griffin Hammond

When hundreds of spam comments flood your blog everyday, that's the kind of discouragement that will keep you, the author, from returning, let alone posting, very often. What's worse is when spambots simultaneously attack your wiki site as well. Losing the will to continually sift through all the spam, I've neglected ...

New Facebook design with real-time news feed

Thursday, March 5th, 2009 by Kyle Welter

Once again, Mark Zuckerberg is rolling out another Facebook redesign.... and shockingly enough, it seems to mimmick Twitter even further! Announced today through the Facebook Blog, the new changes are quite extensive and are definitely the largest we've seen since the creation of the news feed. The first update is the creation ...

Small Businesses’ Online Marketing Plans Call For More Social Network Spending

Monday, January 12th, 2009 by Kyle Welter

eMarketer posted a study today focusing on online marketing budget allocation of small businesses and not surprisingly, social networking has the highest budget increase over all other methods. 25% of small businesses say that they plan on spending "More" money on social networking while only 5% plan on spending "Less."  All ...

Welcome!

Sunday, July 13th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

At Media Socialist, we want to discover and understand everything in the social media realm. Think of it as an experiment where we'll try out more social media than is healthy, and we'll report our findings to you. Scroll down to read articles about social media, including these popular topics: Learn about ...