Retweet My FriendFace: The Best of Social Media This Week

August 15th, 2009 admin

It’s been another busy week in social media, from Facebook’s acquisition of the status updates service FriendFeed to Twitter’s announcement that it will officially support retweets. We took a shot of Google Caffeine, cut calories with Facebook Lite and took a nap on some social media pillows. A guy caught a laptop in his butt, a judge banned Microsoft Word and Googlers wondered: “why do men have nipples?” Without further ado, here are the highlights from the past week in social media


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