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New media consultant Alex Torpey utilized social media to win the Mayoral Race in his New Jersey town. When Barack Obama was running for office in his memorable 2008 campaign, one of the many ways he captivated America was through social networking. He recognized that an online movement could influence offline behavior in politics

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Visitors to YouTube , which now boasts the Internet's second-largest search engine, have uploaded hundreds of millions of videos since its launch in early 2005. For most people YouTube (Google bought the video-sharing site for $1.65 billion in late 2006) is a valuable outlet for sharing personal videos, catching up on college lectures, consulting "how-to" clips and absorbing pop-culture nuggets like "Weird Al" Yankovic's parody of Lady Gaga

Launching a maps product in China requires jumping formidable bureaucratic hurdles and navigating thorny ethical issues. Google's still determined to make it work, but at what cost?

Heres how to use social blogging, a combination of microblogs (short posts) and status updates, to increase your visibility, improve your search engine results, drive more traffic to your company's website, and potentially increase sales. When people are looking for a product or service, oftentimes they will first look for information about the subject on the Internet. In general, blogging is about having conversations in a public space that position you as a subject matter expert

John Warrillow, author of Built to Sell, answers questions from readers about building a sellable business. Dear John: I've decided to shut down my business.

Given the exorbitant fees and questionable valuation from mile- and point-swapping services, skillfully managing the rewards programs to which you already belong proves to be the smarter move. UsingMiles is a free and elegant app for this purpose, allowing you to manage all of your flight miles and hotel-rewards points from a single dashboard.

Tweets are now worth a thousand words. As expected, Twitter announced today that they're adding photos to their core feature set. Users will now be able to attach photos directly to their tweets from within Twitter.com (and soon from the company's mobile apps as well), rather than having to use an outside service

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Can laughs make the sale? Plus, the new deal-site ecosystem, loving the Like button, and the rest of the day's news for entrepreneurs. Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs

The Winklevoss brothers are at it again.

The Winklevoss brothers are at it again. Plus, a secret to Google's success, and the rest of the day's news for entrepreneurs

Use continuous updates and punchy messages to heighten interest and keep your customers informed about products or services which in turn can boost sales.

Content farms scored a win in the battle against Google's anti-spam search algorithms today as Demand Media, the company behind eHow , Cracked , and Livestrong , announced a quarterly revenue of $79.5 million--up 48% from the same quarter last year. Demand also reported a 32% increase in pageviews on owned and operated websites, but this doesn't mean that the company can rest easy quite yet.

With Slashtag.it, you can search just about any site you'd want to, all from the same homepage or search bar. You might only save a few seconds on every search--but after a while, those seconds add up