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Sickweather is the latest effort to mine data in order to reveal how common colds--and worse--are going around your neighborhood. Like it or not, sickness often infects you and your friends

The U2 front man is a cofounder of the charity that is now putting every step of activism--from information to calls to politicians to actual protests--in your pocket.

Anxiety, it seems, varies widely from one person to the next. What leaves you in a knot of angst may not even faze your friend. But two new studies show that during a crisis, anxiety seems to be contagious; you and your friends will probably ultimately arrive at the same anxiety level

Every business needs to keep their people connected and communicating. Here is how to select a cell phone plan to meet the needs of your staff while keeping costs low

INQ just revealed that its so-called Facebookphone is getting a location-based services layer supplied through Foursquare , with the check-in game deeply embedded in the OS. This move adds all sorts of additional powers to the phone without requiring running an app, and it's a real coup for Foursquare.

Toyota is working on a social networking service--with Microsoft's help--so that drivers can interact with their cars. Imagine if KITT had a Twitter account. Toyota's working on a new feature called "Toyota Friend," part of a private social network that connects you--with Microsoft 's help--to your car.

Groupon has already conquered the daily deals market--now they're trying to take over all other deals, too. But they may be missing one big piece of the puzzle: a social network. Groupon has already conquered the daily deals market--now they're trying to take over all other deals, too

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A new social network, MyCube, thinks that we devalue our information when we give it away for free. Founded by Swedish entrepreneur Johan Staël von Holstein, MyCube offers users the chance to monetize their data, through advertising or a system of "nanopayments." Johan Staël von Holstein doesn't seem to like Mark Zuckerberg. "I have 5,000 friends on Facebook," says the Swedish-born entrepreneur , who lives in Singapore, but was about to board a flight from Barcelona to Germany, and then to Dubai, when we spoke by phone

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Want your customers to stick to you like glue? Today it takes more than a punch-card or priority line.

The story of how Peter Shankman, founder of HARO.com, sold his company to one of his largest advertisers Being a former PR guy , Peter Shankman has a deep Rolodex of friends and acquaintances. One day, a journalist friend asked Shankman if he knew an expert source for a story he was writing. Shankman sent the journalist's request to his database of e-mail addresses and was able to find an expert keen to be quoted for the story.

You can't visit a webpage these days without it begging for a compliment: Like us! Share us! Follow us! Social media promotion is one big reason why--just look at The Washington Post , for example, which seems intent on replacing its brand name with the Facebook logo, and barely refrained from slapping a "Like" badge on everything from its user agreement policy to its copyright acknowledgements. But viral promotion isn't the only reason. Increasingly, social media is impacting search-engine rankings.

If you want to guess how many jelly beans are in a jar, you should ask your friends.

The “list” gets longer and longer. Ideas and goals fall to the wayside remaining incomplete or never even seeing the light of day. There’s just no time; even less energy.