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How to hangout on YouTube with Google+ friends

Today with two sentences Google’s Brian Glick introduced a Google+ feature that lets us hangout with friends while watching a YouTube video. With the click of  “Watch with your friends, Start a Google+ hangout,”  you can share your YouTube viewing experience. Pretty cool!   If you’re not on Google+ yet, a hangout lets you video chat

Yes. You can sell things on the Internet!

If you are a business with something to sell, using social media is a sweet spot for you. A headline surfaced in US Today July 29 about a survey of 10,000 small business owners that found more than half plan to develop a social presence in the next three months. USA Today said: At the

Four from the future of social media

The website of BabbaCo says its products are “Simple, functional and super cute.” And guess  what — they are. The judges at TechWeek in Chicago also found BabbaCo investment worthy.  They awarded founder Jessica Kim $100,000 to help grow BabbaCo through the next phase. BabbaCo’s business is a series of products for baby that  Kim

Social Media Icon: Craig Newmark on using social media for social change

In the year 2000 – when I first came across it — Craigslist was an earnest site providing a deceptively simple service — free classified ads online—  that was extremely useful to most everyone. Today, Craigslist is the 9th most popular website in the United States. As much as it is loved, it is also