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• 17 November 2011

• News: Aussie SME e-commerce growing, but slowly

  Despite signs that Australian businesses are making use of the online sales channel, retailers continue to lag behind other local industries.

• News: PayPal launches Facebook app for sending money

  PayPal has launched a Facebook application designed to let users of the social networking site send money to each other.

• News: Facebook and Skype deepen integration

  Facebook and Skype have broadened the scope of their technical integration to make it possible for two people to do a video chat -- one using the Skype interface and the other using the Facebook interface.

• 16 November 2011

• Opinion: 22 Million Workers Used Social Networks to Land Their Current Job

  Social networks are no longer just for keeping in touch with friends and family--they're also great resources for job hunters.

• News: Facebook porn storm used same tactics as May's Bin Laden spam

  The attacks against Facebook that planted pornography on users' news feeds relied on the same trickery as a campaign last spring that touted the death of Osama Bin Laden, a security researcher said today.

• Opinion: How to Use Twitter for Customer Support

  You can use Twitter for more than just gaining a huge mass of followers. It's also a great way to engage with customers--even dissatisfied ones--and turn them into happy advocates of your brand in less time than traditional customer service often takes. All it takes is being active on Twitter and following a few simple steps.

• Opinion: Facebook Porn Spam Attack: How to Protect Yourself

  Many Facebook users have been inundated with pornographic spam in their newsfeeds as part of a malware campaign targeting the social network. The company told the BBC it has identified the culprit and vulnerability that was exploited, but is asking users to stay vigilant.

• News: Salman Rushdie forces Facebook climbdown over his name

  Sir Salman Rushdie has won a bizarre battle with Facebook which deactivated his account at the weekend because the world-famous author was not using his legal birth name ‘Ahmed’ to identify himself on the service.

• News: Is Yelp Fair to Businesses?

  Depending on the neighborhood, the fire-engine red "People Love Us on Yelp" sticker outnumbers sedate-looking "Zagat Rated" emblems or fading newspaper reviews on restaurant doors. There's no mistaking the power--and, let's face it, the sheer entertainment value--of candid reviews written by regular diners rather than food-industry elite.

• News: Orange introduces cheap Facebook phones in Europe, Africa

  Orange launched three Alcatel One Touch phones on Wednesday with dedicated Facebook buttons priced below €100 (US$135).

• 15 November 2011

• Opinion: Social Network Users' Main Focus is Staying in Touch

  Two-thirds of adults online use social media like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and LinkedIn, primarily to maintain connections to friends and family, according to the results of a survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

• News: Diaspora social network co-founder dies at age 22

  Ilya Zhitomirskiy, the 22-year-old co-founder of privacy-focused social network Diaspora, has died in San Francisco.

• News: Despite audit, Facebook holds back personal data

  Facebook has reduced the amount of personal data it releases to users as required by European Union law despite an ongoing audit by Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner.

• News: Facebook users flooded with adult images in mystery hack

  For the past several days, many Facebook users have been seeing adult images in their news feeds that feature pornography, violence and animal abuse -- the result of what security analysts say is a mystery attack.

• News: Lizzie Mary Cullen to draw live art non-stop for 48 hours

  The illustrator will be drawing for two days solid to create a story based around tweets she receives.

• News: Google+ will gain enterprise social collaboration features

  Google plans to release to customers in the future a version of Google+, already in use internally at the company, that has features designed specifically for workplace collaboration.

• 14 November 2011

• Opinion: iTunes Match Still MIA as Google Readies Music Shop

  Two weeks after Apple missed its deadline to launch iTunes Match, Google is ready to unveil its own Android music shop on Wednesday. The search giant's music store, coupled with the beta cloud music service unveiled in May, will rival Apple's unreleased vision of both selling and storing music in the cloud.

• Opinion: Facebook and Privacy Don't Mix Well

  Rumor has it that Facebook is close to reaching a settlement with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to settle charges related to privacy. While the privacy settlement may sound like a good idea, it is sort of a smoke and mirrors exercise because the reality is that privacy and social networking are polar opposites that don't play nicely together.

• News: Tibco's Spotfire ties in-memory analytics to SharePoint, Tibbr social network

  Tibco is giving its Spotfire BI (business intelligence) and visualization tool an injection of social collaboration through integrations with Microsoft SharePoint and its own Tibbr enterprise social networking product, the company announced Monday.

• 11 November 2011

• News: LinkedIn Tip: How to Find the Right Group for You

  With more than 1.1 million LinkedIn Groups, users are bound to find professionals that share similar interests and goals--LinkedIn has groups for CIOs, IT professionals, social media enthusiasts and more.

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