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1 of the 10 Reasons Google’s China Stand-Off Matters

I can see how in the near future the fight over control of the internet may be turning like this. Social media may become an enemy to authoritarian governments because it is the voice of the people and sometimes a very loud voice states preferences and demands truth.

Amplify’d from industry.bnet.com
  • It  raises the prospect that the Internet can be shackled by authoritarian governments with their own Web agendas, standards and values. Within the past year, the Chinese government has shut down thousands of web sites, arrested thousands of Internet users, and blocked social networking sites including Google’s YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.
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    Facebook Notifications for Mac

    This is comes handy, I liked the update status feature.

    Amplify’d from lifehacker.com
    Facebook Notifications brings notifications and status updates from the popular social networking site to your desktop.
    You can even update your Facebook status at any time via a simple keyboard shortcut (Cmd+Alt+Ctrl+Space by default).
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    Social Media + Wearing Shirts = Lucrative Career?

    This is an idea that shows one of those *true* potentials that Social Media brings when used in a creative way.

    Amplify’d from mashable.com

    At the very beginning of this year, Jason Sadler started a quirky experiment: I Wear Your Shirt, a project where every day, Jason would wear one shirt from one company per day and post his image on YouTube, Twitter, Ustream, and more. He would be a walking, talking billboard.

    The result: he sold out every day and will make over $70,000 this year alone ($66,795 + other contests and deals). Talk about a social media payday.

    We think that Jason and Evan’s approach to social marketing is one of the most novel in the realm of social media. We’ve seen Jason’s brand appear over and over again – clearly his grassroots advertising has been well worth the companies who have bought slots. We already wonder how he’ll top himself in 2011

    Read more at mashable.com