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Here is quick review of January posts on JeffBennett.Org:
Geek.Com Reports On Twit4Hire.Com
Super Bowl And Social Media:  SuperBowl-Ads.Com
Super Bowl And Social Media:   E*Trade
Super Bowl And Social Media:  Doritos
Super Bowl Ads And Social Media 2009
IAC’s HealthCentral Acquires Wellsphere
Geek.Com Blogs On Hybrid Chargers For Gadgets
Amazon.Com Plans To Unveil Kindle2
Great Post By Pete Blackshaw On Social Media [...]

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The Digg community is interviewing Republican House Leader John Boehner this Inauguration week! CNN Political Editor Mark Preston will pose the most popular questions as submitted and voted by you this week.   You can submit submit questions for the forum with Congressman John Boehner athis link.

President-Elect Obama’s website Change.gov launched a new set of social media functionality today called “Open for Questions.” This sure looks like Digg to me and that is good as I believe the Digg model is great.
The Obama team is reporting that since its launch yesterday, the “Open for Questions” tool has processed over 600,000 votes [...]

In a story released today in BusinessWeek, Jay Adelson, Digg’s CEO, says that the popular news aggregation Web site is focusing on profitability. I would bet that Digg will also move to the acquirer role here as well so that it can deploy some of the $28.5 million it raised from from Highland Capital [...]

Apple’s iPhone outsold rival Research In Motion Ltd.\’s Blackberry in the latest quarter, according to U.K.-based technology analysis firm Canalys. The iPhone improved to the number two spot behind Nokia and leapfrogged the Blackberry and Motorola. I have shared my view here on JeffBennett.Org in several blog posts that the iPhone with the [...]

When the iPhone was introduced in July 2007 there was quite a build up of interest and buzz. There were lines of Apple fans outside of Apple and AT&T Wireless stores across the land.
I got swept up in the hoopla as well and purchased the original iPhone. I was amazed how [...]

Politics and elections have always been fodder for water cooler, barber shop and dinner table conversation. In my home growing up politics were more interesting to talk about than the Red Sox. Well that was before the Red Sox started winning World Series Championships. Politics did monopolize our dialogue and it still [...]

Highland Capital Partners celebrated it’s twentieth anniversary last night with a party for over 1,200 at the Museum of Science in Boston, Massachusetts. The guest list included 250 CEOs, long time limited partners of the firm, employees from Highland-backed companies, and business, technology and thought leaders from around the world.

Highland was founded in 1988 [...]

Most of the news about Web 2.0 has been in the consumer realm of the Internet. There is enormous potential for businesses to benefit from Social Networking as well.