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During a New York panel discussion on social media and digital activism held Monday, Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei secured a promise from Twitter creator Jack Dorsey that his company will offer a Chinese version of its social networking service. See the rest here:  Twitter in China? In due time, Twitter founder promises  Read More →

Dell has filed a lawsuit against five LCD makers that charges them with colluding to fix prices for products, a Dell spokesman said Monday. See original here: Dell sues five LCD makers for alleged price-fixing  Read More →

The Internet is filled with nostalgia on Monday as geeks all over the world celebrate the 25th anniversary of the registration of the first dot-com domain. On March 15, 1985, a small Massachusetts-based computer manufacturer Symbolics, Inc. registered Symbolics.com. Read more here: Happy 25th Birthday ‘Dot Com’:... 

A start-up called Pip.io argues that social media requires a new type of operating system for browsing sites such as Facebook, Twitter. Read the original:  Do we need a social media ‘operating system’?  Read More →

The upset victory of Republican Scott Brown, running for the seat held by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, was due in part to an online strategy that saw social media and the Internet as the tools to make politics at once local and national. Read more from the original source:  How Scott Brown friended, tweeted and LOLed his way... 

Just like red wine and classical music, blogging attracts a more mature audience, while the younger set prefers to share their lives via social networks. The rest is here:  Blogging Is Out, Facebook Is In, Study Finds  Read More →

You may be a champ at Mafia Wars and Farmville, but what do you know about the security risks of social media sites? See the original post:  Social Media Risks: The Basics  Read More →

If you plan to make any serious use of Twitter for business purposes you’re probably always on the look out for a better way to manage your presence. It’s not that the likes of Tweetdeck or whatever you currently using aren’t great, it’s just that the whole world of social media is so new we have no...