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 NC STEM to announce guest speakers via Twitter today

The NC STEM Community Collaborative is hosting two events on Tuesday, Sept 28, in Raleigh. The organization will announce the line-up of speakers hourly today on Twitter.

 Twitter's facelift: Tweets, multimedia and more

The new look adding photos and video further underscores Twitter’s emergence as a major communications hub.

Twitter's new look

 YouTube joins live video ‘streaming’ trend with two-day trial

"This is just an initial trial, a first step," says YouTube product manager Josh Siegel. "We're going to look at a whole bunch of data about the performance of our new platform and then, based on that, make decisions about how we'll open it up, with the goal of opening it up to all of our partners over time."

 Live - It's streaming video on YouTube

An experimental trial for a live streaming platform begins Monday, with four new media partners.

 Facebook tops Google as net destination

Researchers at comScore say U.S. net users spend on average 9.9 percent of web time at Facebook vs. 9.6 percent at Google.

 What does ‘Google Instant’ really mean for your business?

Digital marketing analysis: Businesses can adapt to the new changes in the Google search delivery simply by committing to publishing fresh, relevant, up-to-date content that solves problems and answers questions. Users will "vote" on sites and articles they find useful by visiting them frequently and linking to their resources.

Google Instant tracks Three Ships Media

 How can marketers capitalize on the Facebook phenomenon?

Analysis: Advertising on Facebook offers a rich ability for marketers to target sectors of the gigantic user base by age, location, and even interests. While this ability is very attractive to marketers, they should approach this method with care, given the customer dissatisfaction with that attribute of Facebook.

 Digital marketing strategy: What traditional media can't provide

Social media analysis: Rupert Murdoch sets up the Times of London behind a pay wall, and the strategy isn’t working.

 Facebook's new security feature: Remote logouts

Facebook is making the addition over the next couple of weeks. It will be accessible on computers, but not mobile devices.

 MySpace allows users to sync posts to Facebook

MySpace users will also be able to share music, videos, game applications, links and photos across both social networking sites.

 Location services: How to protect your privacy

The more information you broadcast about yourself online, the more that marketers, strangers, future or current employers and anyone else will know about you. Are you OK with leaving an ever-expanding digital trail behind?

 Digital marketing growth: Internet spend to top print

Analysis: This move encompasses everything from SEO to blogs, from webinars to social media, and serves as further evidence of the budgetary trends across industries and away from traditional media and toward digital.

 It's location, location now for Facebook users

"Where are you?" is joining "What's on your mind?" as Facebook lets its users declare their whereabouts to their friends and people nearby.

Facebook launches "Places"

 A pet lovers’ game nirvana? Chapel Hill firm develops Purina Pet Resort

Merscom, which is now part of social game developer Playdom, teams up with pet food giant for Facebook simulation game. It’s for people who love VIPs (very important pets.)

VIPs - very important pets - feted at Pet Resort

 See something worth tweeting? Twitter makes it easier

Pressing the button automatically creates a shortened link that appears in a pop-up box tied to the Twitter user's account. A comment can be added next to the link, staying within the 140-character limit of Twitter's messaging service.

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