10. Apple
9. Trader Joe’s
8. REI
7. Slalom Consulting
6. CareerBuilder
5. Google
4. MITRE
3. Facebook
2. McKinsey & Company
1. Bain & Company
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10. Parked Domain Girl
9. Dog Poop Girl
8. Saugeen Stripper
7. Ear Mouse
6. Cigar Guy
5. Sad Keanu
4. Qian Zhijun
3. Vancouver Couple Kissing
2. Islamic Rage Boy
1. Crasher Squirrel
The following musical celebrities are the best at leveraging and engaging with their audience via social media:
10. Katy Perry
9. Jasmine V
8. Nicki Minaj
7. Selena Gomez
6. Gypsy Heart Tour
5. Joe Jonas
4. Rihanna
3. Chris Brown
2. Lady Gaga
1. Justin Bieber
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10. Craigslist– Changed classified ads
9. Geocities – Changed internet accessibility
8. Blogger– Changed the blogging scene
7. Pandora – Changed how we listen to music
6. Facebook – Changed how we interact
5. Wikipedia – Changed how we research/learn
4. Amazon – Changed the face of retail shopping
3. YouTube – Changed daily entertainment
2. eBay – Changed how we buy and sell
1. Google – Changed virtually everything
Click on the person’s name to go directly to the tweet in question, as well as to find his or her Twitter account.
10. Conan O’Brien: “Hey Internet: I’m headed to your town on a half-assed comedy & music tour. Go to http://TeamCoco.com for tix. I repeat: It’s half-assed.”
9. Carles Puyol: “Gran ambiente en la rua!!orgulloso de ver a tanta gente feliz. http://twitpic.com/24qkg5″
8. John M. Foster: “Congratulations to Raul Labrador on a hard-earned win, and best of luck as Idaho’s next Congressman.”
7. Jonathan Schwartz: “Today’s my last day at Sun. I’ll miss it. Seems only fitting to end on a #haiku. Financial crisis/Stalled too many customers/CEO no more”
6. Clarence House: “The Prince of Wales is delighted to announce the engagement of Prince William to Miss Catherine Middleton - www.princeofwales.gov.uk”
5. Presidencia Ecuador: “Gobierno declara estado de Excepción #Ecuador #30S”
4. BP Public Relations: “Catastrophe is a strong word, let’s all agree to call it a whoopsie daisy.”
3. Leigh Fazzina: “I’ve had a serious injury and NEED Help! Can somone please call Winding Trails in Farmington, CT tell them I’m stuck bike crash in woods.”
2. The White House: “Welcome to @twitter President Medvedev! RT @KremlinRussia_E: Hello everyone! I’m on Twitter, and this is my first tweet.”
1. Ann Curry: “@usairforce find a way to let Doctors without Borders planes land in Haiti: http://bit.ly/8hYZOK THE most effective at this.”
1- Real-time ramps up
The term represents the growing demand for immediacy in our interactions. Immediacy is compelling, engaging, highly addictive … it’s a sense of living in the now.
2- Location, location, location
Fueled by the ubiquity of GPS in modern smartphones, location-sharing services like Foursquare, Gowalla, Brightkite and Google Latitude are suddenly in vogue.
3- Augmented reality
t’s yet to become part of the consumer consciousness, but augmented reality has attracted early-adopter buzz in the latter part of 2009.
4- Content ‘curation’
The Web’s biggest challenge of recent years is that content creation is outpacing our ability to consume it: “Information overload” has become an increasingly common complaint.
5- Cloud computing
The trend, in which data and applications cease to reside on our desktops and instead exist on servers elsewhere (”the cloud”), makes our data accessible from anywhere and enables collaboration with distributed teams.
6- Internet TV and movies
There’s certainly more activity here than at any other time: Among the early-adopter set, Hulu, Boxee, Apple TV and Netflix’s Roku box lead the field.
7- Convergence conundrum
While the convergence trend continues apace and many of our gadgets are folded into the smartphones we carry around every day, we’re seeing a converse trend in which task-specific devices gain popularity.
8- Social gaming
There’s little risk of social gaming proving a bad bet in 2010 — Zynga’s FarmVille game on Facebook now counts more active users than Twitter, claims a Facebook executive.
9- Mobile payments
I’d wager that 2010 will be the breakthrough year of the much-anticipated mobile payments market.
10- Fame abundance, privacy scarcity
Warhol was right: Fame is now abundant. Social media has birthed a galaxy of stars in thousands of niches: We’re all reality stars now, on Facebook, Twitter and all the myriad online outlets where we hone our personal brands.
According to CNN
1. She’s a firm believer that you can learn a lot about your health from your poop — and has the status updates to prove it
2. You’ve only met him once but he “likes” everything you do on Facebook. Uh, stalk much?
3. You’re pretty sure she doesn’t wear her dress and veil everyday, but the girl can’t stop posting pics from her wedding two years ago.
4. He changed his relationship status to single instead of breaking up with you in person.
5. One word: Farmville.
6. She might not be on The Biggest Loser but for some reason she wants the entire world to know what she had for lunch, how many miles she just ran, and when she are sweating it out at the gym.
7. She has a photo album of your days as a teen beauty pageant queen, a scanner, and a passion for tagging.
8. EVERY WORD HE WRITES IS IN CAPS AND USUALLY FOLLOWED BY TONS OF EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!!
9. “So-and-So added you as a friend on Facebook” is the most you’ve heard from him in 10 years. Now that you’ve accepted the request you still haven’t connected.
10. You call her Mom.
According to Cosmopolitan
1. Turn up your empathy quotient (EmQ)
2. Create an appealing package
3. Reach out and connect
4. Speak with panache
5. Be inclusive
6. Read between the lines
7. Empower others
8. See the big picture
9. Be likeable
10. Brand yourself
According to MSNCareers.com
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