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A few days ago, we created a Hub on HubPages to validate a couple of Tasks that we developed to post *form data to a HubPages Hub. We didn’t spend a whole lot of time on our new Hub; other than a contact form and an RSS module to pick up the feed from this [...] Read More

Google's new social networking site is working hard to give Facebook a run for its money.Google Plus is adding games to its user experience.Google's senior vice president of engineering, Vic Gundotra, made the announcement on Google's blog. One feature of the games is that the games will be easy to Read More

We had such a good time playing with Squidoo the other day that we decided to go ahead and do the same thing with HubPages. HubPages and Squidoo are similar sites with similar goals, but they each have their own unique language when it comes to the elements involved in the process. On Squidoo you [ Read More

Social bookmarking site Digg has launched a new service called Newswire that enables businesses to promote breaking news content published on their websites.Digg users traditionally engage viral, humorous articles, but Newswire aims to give exposure to “breaking news.” Currently in beta format, New Read More

More than half of small businesses in the U.S. are using social media channels to promote their businesses and products, according to a study by small-business insurer Hiscox Inc.In the Hiscox study, 53% of U.S. businesses with one to 249 employees are using social media for business purposes. Howe Read More

Marketing Week.co.uk has become the conduit for those wishing to comment on the marketing merits of social media these past few weeks with the equally committed cheerleaders and detractors quick to point out the failings in each other’s arguments.A relative avalanche of comments have been posted on Read More

A few weeks ago, this column explored Google’s +1 button, and I mentioned that site visitors might not have the time or interest to figure out the difference between a like, share, dig, tweet, follow, buzz, bookmark or +1.However, this doesn’t mean these social-sharing methods should be excluded fr Read More

Is there another technology bubble in the making? This question has exercised the media and markets since the extraordinary post-IPO performance of LinkedIn, the social network for professionals. Social-sales aggregator Groupon has recently suggested that conventional valuation methods are obsolete Read More

Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook’s marketing director and sister of multi-millionaire founder Mark, has resigned - to start her own social media empire.Mrs Zuckerberg is leaving the company after six years to start her new venture aimed at helping other companies 'become more social'.In her resignation l Read More

So much for local marketing through social media. Only 15% of the average local business’s fans are in the city where the business is located, reports Roost.com, a social-media advisory company.The finding came from Roost’s Local Scorecards, which analyze audience distributions and other marketing Read More