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Think You're A Social-Media Guru? Take This Quiz

Social-networking innovators are highly visible and post all over the place--Tom from MySpace is all up in Google+, Zuckerberg's tweeting, and so on. See if you can name that social-media heavyweight based solely on what he wrote. READ»

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Happy 5th Birthday, Twitter! Love Google, Facebook, AOL

Aw, look at the cute baby! Coloring in the lines! Riding that trike with ease! Looping those shoelaces into bunny ears! You're all grown up now, Twitter!READ»

Why Did Myspace Fail?... Are You Listening Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, And Cisco?

Don't confuse a one-trick pony, first-mover niche player with a visionary company.READ»

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Obama's Twitter Townhall, AP To Open N. Korea Bureau, N. Korea To Open Photo Exhibit In NYC

The White House takes to Twitter for a townhall. Plus: AP news agency would be the first permanent Western-run photo and text bureau ever to operate in the North Korean capital and 100,000 reasons to buy an iPad. Breaking bits from our news-obsessed editors, updated all day. READ»

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Obvious Move: Biz Stone Steps Away From Twitter For Mysterious Venture; Plus, Trouble In Tumblville

The Fast Company reader's essential rundown of people and companies making moves in your space. Updated all day by FastCompany.com's editors.READ»

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Facebook Hits A Wall

Usage data suggests that something unusual has happened to Facebook's membership growth in the U.S. and Canada in the last couple of months ... it's shriveled. Facebook may have exhaled just before an IPO. READ»

Andrew Mason: The Next Mark Zuckerberg?

Last year, Andrew Mason, the founder of Groupon, turned down a six billion dollar offer from Google. Did he make a mistake?READ»

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Forgetting Facebook: How Tagged.com Found Space in Social Networking

The social network Tagged was founded in the same year as Facebook. When it realized it wouldn't win that fight, it made a bold decision: stop competing. What happened next wasn't always pretty--but lately it's been profitable.READ»

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New Facebook Photo Protector Allows You to Be Ridiculous Online--and Then Erase the Images

A new piece of software commissioned by the German government can delete embarrassing photos from Facebook after a set amount of time.READ»

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iFive: BlackBerry Porn Ban, Student-Teacher Facebook Ban, U.K. Regulating Tweet Promos, MySpace's End, Bugs Not Meat for CO2

Monday's here, so to start your wintery week of work with a mind full of all the early innovation and tech news, we present iFive with quick and handy summaries:READ»

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Google Driving Billions of Hits to Facebook, Other Social Networks

Google has become so synonymous with web browsing that most users see its search box as a replacement for the address bar. Topping the charts for the most searched terms of 2010, according to a new report from Experian Hitwise, are YouTube, Craigslist, and MySpace.READ»

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Can Apple Fix Ping?

And why aren't you using the service?READ»

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MySpace CEO: We Don't Care About Selling Music

Perhaps it's no surprise half of MySpace got deleted in the company logo's recent redesign. The News Corp-owned social network is trying to pivot to becoming a music discovery site -- but now its CEO says he doesn't want to sell tunes either.READ»

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Why "Mashups With Facebook" Isn't a Loss for MySpace

MySpace tightened integration with Facebook today. Some say that means Facebook has won the "social network wars." Here's why they're wrong.READ»

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Why Apple's Ping Is Worse Than MySpace: It Has Only 2,000 Artists

Ping, the social network on iTunes, is an ultra-exclusive club -- but not in the way Apple would like it. Since launching in September, little more than 2,000 musical acts have joined Ping.READ»

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How Lady Gaga's One Billion YouTube Views Changes the Music Industry

Which metric best captures Lady Gaga's global superstardom: the 15 million albums she's sold to date, or the billion views she reached this week on YouTube? READ»

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iFive: PlayStation Phone Pics, Apple's China Copyright Trouble, An EV Record, The New Warren Buffett, MySpace's Makeover

Good morning. While you were sleeping, advances in technology, ethonomics, and business leadership just kept on keepin' on. Here are just five of myriad examples:1. Pictures of something looking like the PlayStation Phone have been ...READ»

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Apple Throws the Rule Book at Music Stars

Rockstars are notoriously hard to control. Which makes it especially odd that Apple, for its new music social network Ping, would release a nine-page book of guidelines for artists planning to join the service. READ»

Twitter Crushing Facebook's Click-Through Rate: Report

According to a new report by marketing firm SocialTwist, Internet sharing trends have shifted heavily toward social networking, but other platforms still have a strong presence for word-of-mouth advertising. READ»