Last week launched the social revolution for search. Microsoft’s Bing fired the first shot by announcing search deals with Twitter and Facebook and, at the Web 2.0 Summit,launching its Twitter integration. Google fired back almost immediately though, completing its own deal with Twitter and, perhaps more importantly, announcing a new feature: Social Search.

Social search, demoed at the Web 2.0 Summit by Google’s VP of Search Marissa Mayer, combines results from your friend’s blogs, Flickr, Twitter, FriendFeed, and a wide variety of other social media sites (so long as your...

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As of today, 110 million new people can tweet via SMS, all from the second-most populous nation in the world. Twitter, in an extensive announcement detailing its vision for making a global impact, announced that it had secured an SMS deal with India’s largest mobile operator, Bharti Airtel. Its customers can now send their 140 character updates via texting. While texting an update will still cost Indian customers, receiving SMS updates from Twitter will be completely free.

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For many new Facebookers, thats a great question, but more importantly marketing and branding executives at large companies need to know the vital differences between a Facebook Page and a Facebook Group. In the link given below, Howard Greenstein’s article about Facebook Groups and Facebook Pages explores all various similarities and differences.

One primary difference that is very important for companies to know is this: A Facebook page can ONLY be created and maintained by the company/organization or by anyone else who has been fully authorized by the company/organization. Unofficial...

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