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In late August Br.st was nothing more than a URL shortener service with link stats and malware filters. While the company allowed users to cross post to social networks like

Though I'm chronically checking in on services like Brightkite, Loopt and Foursquare, it's rare that I'll actually make an appearance at the behest of a friend's status update. For the

Whether you're riffing on the latest celebrity gossip or ranting about local politics, Blogged lets you add your two cents to today's hottest news posts. As of this morning, the

In an effort to help advertisers reach key consumers, Peerset is launching what it describes as a "psycho-graphic targeting tool." Not unlike dating algorithms, Peerset's targeting algorithm takes keywords and

Often described as "crowd sourced television", online community site Redux is quickly becoming the most addictive entertainment experience on the web. With this morning's announcement of Twitter and Facebook integration,

When Facebook first welcomed 3rd party applications, Lending Club caused a stir with its peer-to-peer money exchange. While others like Prosper had paved tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.readwriteweb.com/readwritestart/2009/09/facecard-forget-the-jpegs-give.php'; tweetmeme_source = 'rww'; the

Eight years ago job titles like "social media marketer" and even "community manager" were few and far between. As netizen and social networking populations have grown over the years, so

There is a lot of chatter in the blogosphere about the recent $100 million investment in Twitter at a $1 billion valuation, but most of it based on speculation. Twitter

As proven by last month's Facebook Vanity URL rush, there's value in personal domain names. As an answer to brand protection across multiple networks, DandyID is launching ClaimMyName at around

The folks at Boxee have certainly been busy. The streaming media software company celebrated a Windows release, a deal penned with Major League Baseball (complete with instant replay on games)

Posterous co-founder Gary Tan just announced that they've acquired fellow Y-Combinator company Slinkset - a Digg / Reddit-style news site with voting capabilities. Says Tan in his blog post, "Slinkset

The internet has settled a great number of disputes in my household. The star of Ferris Bueller's Day Off is NOT John Cusack, George W. Bush is NOT older than

When PR agencies encourage corporate executives to engage in public dialogue, they tell them to "embrace the chaos". As of today, chaos has a measurement API, and its name is

Robert Scoble and Rackspace have just launched the long anticipated Building43 in an effort Scoble describes as, "helping usher businesses into 2010." Said teammate Rocky Barbanica, "Companies can gain so

In 2008 Blender magazine named Gainesville Florida the Best Place to Start a Band. With this morning's launch of Grooveshark's new Facebook Share Song application, WordPress plugin and release of

According to the Brightkite blog, yesterday evening 3rd party developer Chris Hallgren opened the source code for his Brightkite BlackBerry application (Brightberry). Denver-based Brightkite is best known as the