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We have spent a great deal of time covering US President Barack Obama's Web presence, from the Democrat's social media strategies to whitehouse.gov. So when the Republicans in the US Congress released a new version of their site - complete with RSS feeds and an API - we felt it only appropriate to give the site a bi-partisan once over. And while the site has received an obvious facelift, it's the underlying functionality - and access to information - that drew our attention.

If you love both Facebook and Adobe AIR, then you're going to love these three new AIR apps for your desktop: Facedesk, Zebr, and Flair. Facedesk is a standalone application that lets you use Facebook without having a browser window open. Both Zebr and Flair are notification programs for receiving alerts about Facebook status updates, wall posts, messages, and more. The last two are a bit more useful, but true Facebook addicts might want to try all three.

This week we've discussed how Social Media Marketing and Online Video is being used in the Beijing Olympics. It's now 8.08am on Friday 8th August 2008 in Beijing and some Chinese Web fans have launched a campaign to celebrate and support the opening of the Beijing Olympics, using (you guessed it) Twitter!