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10 Offbeat Holidays to Celebrate in June

As marketers, your job is to be creative, creative, and more creative. Before a campaign is even launched, you’re already looking for ways to further the creativity and boost performance….

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Andrew Keen: 'I'm Not a Luddite'

Andrew Keen. The writer and broadcaster who managed to irritate a large group of people on the Web with his last book, “The Cult of the Amateur”, was in London…

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Facebook Introduces Trending Videos Feature to News Feed

Last month, Facebook introduced a feature called “trending articles” that stuck a slideshow into your news feed of popular news articles via your friends that you might have missed. It…

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On February 8th, 2004 Facebook had 650 Users

Now that Facebook is all grown up, it’s nice to take a stroll down memory lane every now and then. Thanks to a tweet from Matthew Keys, we’re reminded of…

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National Geographic Uses Instagram on Mount Everest Journey

National Geographic was Instagram’s very first big brand partner and so it seems quite fitting that the media giant is using the photo sharing app for the very first time…

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Networkupdater Alerts You To Profile Changes on Facebook and Twitter

The main reason why we use services like Facebook and Twitter is to stalk keep up with our friends. Unfortunately, there is only so much time in a day that…

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Use Social Media Sentiment to Guide You in the Stock Market

Derwent Capital Markets raised eyebrows when it launched a hedge fund that used analysis of Twitter to predict movements in the stock market. Now the London-based firm is set to…

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WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg: social and mobile is the "fourth phase of our evolution"

The founding developer of the popular blogging software WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, shared some of his thoughts about what’s next for the platform today. WordPress is completely open source, but Mullenweg…

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Facebook App Developers Now Get More Detailed Analytics

We know that Facebook is definitely on to something with its Open Graph initiative. Apps like Socialcam have seen a huge increase in adoption thanks to the sharing of content…

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Facebook Shares the History of the "Hackathon"

If you’ve paid attention to Facebook’s culture at all, you know that one thing has stayed true since its launch. The company has a hacker mentality, and since 2007 has…

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Facebook's Holding an Open Graph Challenge in the UK

Facebook has a new road show now that it’s a public company, and it wants to find the best Open Graph hackers there are in the UK. During the Over…

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Lyst Launches Sale Alerts for Pinterest

In our most recent iPad Magazine, we traveled the world over to bring you the best stories and trends in the digital fashion world. In London, we met with 5…

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Hmmm Lets You Share Your Smallest Details

We see our fair share of social networking apps here at The Next Web and once in a while there’s a new player that stands out to us. Whether it…

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Facebook Settles Sponsored Stories Lawsuit

According to a report by Reuters, Facebook has settled a lawsuit that was brought about by five of its users last year over its “Sponsored Stories” feature. The lawsuit alleged…

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MySpace Tom Joins Facebook App Company as an Advisor

Even Tom from MySpace knows that Facebook’s app platform is a powerhouse, and has joined a company called RocketFrog as an advisor. The company has launched what it calls the…