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At a recent Social Media Club event in Richmond, Virginia, we caught up with local NBC television reporter Rachel DePompa and local political and news blogger John Sarvay. The pair

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/NewsGator_Launches_Facebook_App_NewsFriends'; digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff'; digg_skin = 'compact'; One of the leading RSS Aggregation startups, NewsGator Technologies, jumped on the Facebook bandwagon today with NewsFriends (add to Facebook

Two of Richmond's leading bloggers, Jeff Kelley and Ian Graham, sat down at a recent Social Media Club event to talk about journalism, politics, satire, and how new media is

This is guest post by Dan Zarrella, a social media marketing consultant. You can follow him on Twitter here. Building popularity on Twitter is about gaining followers, and the most

AOL's social news site relaunched today under the new name Propeller. No longer "the new Netscape", Propeller seems on face like a clone of a clone. There may, though, be

The WSJ is reporting that US Social Networking site Facebook is in serious talks to sell itself to Yahoo, for an amount that may be as high as $1 billion.

We have surely seen our fair share of Digg-style social news sites over the last few years. The latest entrant into this market is Vanno, which puts an interesting and

This week there has been a slew of news about social networks and big companies ramping up their social software features. Here's a quick summary of the latest news and

Social networking provider Ning yesterday announced that it now hosts half a million social networks on its platform. Ning launched in February 2007 and has seen rapid growth and mainstream

After 4 months of private, invite-only alpha testing, social news network Socialmedian is now open and available in a public beta. During the last 4 months, Socialmedian has taken its