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OK, this is cool. A new networking utility called Hachi is taking some of the best functionality offered by LinkedIn (searching by name, company, title, etc. and seeing how you’re connected to other users), and is merging that with your social graphs from other services like Facebook, and soon Google contacts, Twitter and even your Outlook address book. That way, you can see who you know where –

You know, every once in awhile it helps to go back to square one. Those of us who live in the social media bubble often talk so much about what is go

Google announced today that it has acquired Wildfire, a startup with a viral marketing campaign platform and several offices stretching from Silicon Valley to Singapore.Google product management director Jason Miller explained on the official Google blog that the merger of Google and Wildfire will create "new opportunities for our clients to engage with people across all social services."Wrote Mi

If you ever wanted build your business with internet marketing, but immediately felt overwhelmed and didn’t know where to begin, Own Your Niche – Hype-Free Internet Marketing Tactics to Establish Authority in Your Field and Promote Your Service-Based Business is your step-by-step field guide.

Even if most small businesses don’t understand search engine optimization (SEO), that doesn’t mean they can’t be helped by it. For those who don’t know SEO from their CEO, it is in essence a means of improving the ranking of your business in the Google search algorithm. This in turn, can help a business move up in Google’s search listing. Sonam Lama, CEO of Achieve Visibility, a SEO site special

This week we had 88 new APIs added to our API directory including an SMS messaging service, virtual server management service, website user and profile management service, business publication search service, proximity platform and telegram hand delivery service. Below are more details on each of these new APIs.

FACEBOOK is under attack from angry users who claim the social network automatically sends "friend requests" to those they want to avoid.The popular site can't explain what's causing the glitch, but insists it is not an official Facebook feature.Users are venting their anger on internet forums, saying the site is sending requests to "friends of friends" or people in networks they have joined.This

AddThis today announced the integration of Social Sign In to its suite of social plug-ins, enabling users to log into a website using their existing social credentials from the three largest social networks - Google, Facebook, or Twitter. Social Sign In provides publishers with a simplified and lightweight method to take advantage of social identities within the social web’s most comprehensive sh

The aim of Finnish startup Kippt is to improve the way people bookmark, save and organize online links. It is not alone. There are a large number of bookmarking services which offer variations on a similar theme. These include the likes of Instapaper, Pocket and Evernote.The difference is that Kippt is not attempting to be an alternative to these services, but to automatically save all your links

It seems there is another marketing infographic hiding around every corner of the web, and it will probably fall well short of its potential.Instead of making information easier to consume, many infographics make it harder to understand the information they present or even outright mislead.Here are 5 of the biggest infographic mistakes marketers make with an example of each.