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Chances are that your online social networking habits are bringing you online via your phone. A recent survey by ABI Research reports that almost half of those using online social networks have visited a social network through a mobile phone, with MySpace and Facebook being the most popular sites visited.

Social Media moves so fast, its hard to keep up. Here's the week's highlights, in scan-friendly format. This week: - MySpace is Three Times Bigger Than Facebook says Hitwise - Social Search -- not as irrelevant as you think - iPhone vs. Android: SDK Shootout - Grab a Bucket! The 'Ad-Network Bubble' is Bursting!! - Digg to go Multi-lingual and Local - Muxtape Reborn as Embeddable Indie Showcase

WPBook, the Wordpress plugin which lets you bring your blog posts into facebook, has been updated to version 0.8.1. (You can view this very blog in Facebook as an example, assuming you’re not doing so already). The main updates were in the 0.8 release yesterday (0.8.1 is just a bug fix to that release). In 0.8, you have the option to enable an “Invite Friends” link. See this section of the admin panel: If that’s enabled, you’ll see something like this inside your facebook app: People can use this to invite their friends to your facebook app. (Of course you can also use it to invite your friends to your own app - 15 per day).

Social Media moves so fast, its hard to keep up. Here's the weeks news from the trenches in scan-friendly format. This week: * Facebook Flip-Flops Over New Design * Enterprise Microblogger Yammer Scoops Techcrunch50 Top Prize * New iTunes is Genius. Especially for those with half a brain. * Google Apps on Blackberry (as discovered at RWW for Pastors) * Google Mobile Search with My Location * The Best of Friendfeed Facebook Flip-flops Over New Design The new Facebook UI is splitting opinion down the middle. Half of all users despise it.

Lifestreaming, an idea stemming from the walls of Yale University, is getting more and more attention from the geeks and techies of this world. What’s all the hype about, we wonder. What is lifestreaming compared to news feeds, dashboards and concoctions of random social media widgets? Is the idea still the same: share yourself, kill time, find long-forgotten friends and stay abreast of people’s status updates? Is it about tweeting, blogging, flickring, youtube-ing and digging it – all in one interface?

Aaron Sorkin, the creator of “The West Wing,” broke the news on Facebook, when he opened an account and announced his desire to write a movie script about the founders of the popular social networking site. The word on the street has it that Scott Rudin (“There Will be Blood,” “The Other Boleyn Girl”) will produce the film for Columbia Pictures.

It's usually easy to figure out what company sets the industry standard by how prospective competitors sell themselves to the public. For instance, a new site to be launched this week called SportsFanLive.com is supposed to be the "Facebook of Sports Fans." It's so much like Facebook that something just like it had to be created exclusively for sports fans; but it's also incredibly different as to attract users away from Facebook. A precarious balance, to say the least.

No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, most everyone can agree that how politics is covered online has changed dramatically from four years ago. With political convention season within days of peaking, the impact that online media has on coverage is hard to overlook. As it turns out, political conventions have very little to do with television anymore.

Social Media moves so fast, its hard to keep up. Here's the week's top stories from around the blogosphere, in scan-friendly format. This Week: * Twitter Cuts SMS Access * Movable Type Goes Social * AOL to Acquire Socialthing * ReplyFeed.com : Social Media Conversation Management * Google's Failed Acquisitions in Social Media * Facebook Launches New Social Ad Unit, and Gets Sued... Again

WPBook, the WordPress for Facebook plugin which Dave Lester and others at Scholarpress originally created and which I’ve contributed some to, has been updated again. Version 0.7.4, which I just tagged in subversion (so it should be showing up in the Wordpress plugins directory by the time I post this) includes the following:

Guess the negotiations with Hasbro and Electronic Arts didn’t go so well. It was really my primary reason for actually logging in to Facebook.

Social Media moves so fast, it's hard to keep up. Here's the week's major developments, in scan-friendly format. This week: * Google Knol * Facebook/Microsoft search deal * Loopt's cheaper GPS deal * Google buying Digg? * New APIs/developer platforms * It's a Miracle! Apparition of Robert Scoble in a Grilled Cheese Sandwich!

Web site Sendible schedules sending messages to contacts in the future over email, text message, or social networks like Facebook and Myspace. Not only can you send messages to anyone on a schedule,...

A valid reason for never getting back to all those social webapps you signed up for is that updating them all with big news—or just a funny moment—requires a lot of logging in, typing or...

We all know that blogs and blogging are a shockingly effective means of sharing your most ingenious thoughts and building or participating in online communities. Right. You got that message a while back. But considering that there are a number of options to choose from, the final step of getting going can still seem a touch daunting. We've put in a little spadework and here's a quick guide through the woods for the rest of us.