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Todays linkfest is Social Media and Wisdom of Crowds inspired. The following linked articles covers topics that you should be aware of when it comes to promoting your brand and music online. If you don't want to wait for the link posts you can visit my del.icio.us page which I add new article links every day.

New FaceBook feature challenges LinkedIn - CNN/Money
Professionals are flocking to Facebook ,and soon they'll be able to divide their business life from their social life.
A seemingly innocuous change is coming to Facebook that could pose a threat to business networking site LinkedIn: the ability to separate your work "friends" from your social ones.

What's Your Facebook Strategy? - Editor & Publisher
Third-Party Applications Can Help You Tap Its Massive Audience
You can only envy Facebook's traffic, unless you're Google or Facebook rival MySpace. A sophisticated and slick "social utility," the website has grown to 42 million members. It's no wonder. Facebook is a truly useful and fun social networking tool -- and it's addictive.

Could Twitter become the ultimate buzz tracker? | The Social Web - ZDNet.com
For those of you that aren’t already convinced that Twitter, Silicon Valley’s favorite micro-blogging platform, might actually be useful — word comes via TechCrunch about a soon-to-be released new feature: real-time search!

Where MySpace and Facebook are headed? - Fortune
For all of Facebook's recent successes, MySpace continues to thrive. That's the theme of my recent big Fortune story on the MySpace/Facebook battle, "As Facebook takes off, MySpace strikes back." Meanwhile, innumerable permutations of the seductive social networking model continue to arise, because this is increasingly the kind of Internet that users are showing, with their behavior, that they want.

MySpace: Hot or Not? - Read/WriteWeb
MySpace is responsible for putting social networking on the map. Despite the site's notoriously bad design and poor navigation, millions of people flocked to it because it provided a simple, yet powerful way to self-express and to connect with others online.

What evolutionary psychology says about social networking | The Practical Futurist - MSNBC.com
The Internet world is relentlessly enthusiastic in its embrace of the latest and greatest, and this year’s new flavor has been social networking. Between MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Bebo and scores of lesser start-ups, social networking seems poised to take over the Internet.

How Mark Zuckerberg Turned Facebook Into the Web's Hottest Platform - Wired
He didn't have much choice but to sell. It was summer 2006, a little more than two years after Mark Zuckerberg had created Facebook in his Harvard dorm room as a way for him and his friends to better connect with schoolmates. In the intervening years, he'd raised $37.7 million from venture capitalists and transformed his modest Web site into a certified social phenomenon. College kids across the nation clamored for access, which Zuckerberg doled out, school by school. By mid-2006, about 7 million users, most of them college students, had a Facebook account.

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