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With so many social media sites in circulation today, badge soup can become a real problem for web sites trying to squeeze the most out of their traffic. Everyone has

Editor's note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want

Jennifer Preston has been appointed the first Social Media Editor of the New York Times. It has come to this; the flagship institution of traditional journalism now has an editor

Think of this post as a mashup of two of my favorite social media books: Naked Conversations meets Tactical Transparency. And in the interest of transparency, I should disclose that

Loomia is a content recommendations service, used on sites such as the Wall Street Journal and PC World. We've profiled Loomia's Facebook app before, which tracks what you and your

This past week saw the Conversational Marketing (CM) Summit in New York, an event organized by Federated Media (which sells advertising on ReadWriteWeb). It was a stimulating event because of

Today, mobile ad network AdMob announced social, search, and dynamic rich media ad units for the iPhone. "Mobile advertising is rapidly maturing, and we believe the iPhone is leading the

One would think that few ads could be less controversial than ads for painkillers, but over the weekend, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the maker of Motrin, found itself in the middle

In our society, there's an image of a computer nerd as this sad, pale, and lonely guy sitting in the dark gazing at a glowing screen. As it turns out,

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