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		<title>Adventurers, athletes &#8216;check into&#8217; the wild with social networking</title>
		<link>http://memeburn.com/2012/02/adventurers-athletes-check-into-the-wild-with-social-networking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 04:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Talita Calitz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gone are the days when all you needed to climb a mountain or run a marathon were some good shoes and ropes. These days sports enthusiasts and adventure travelers rely on apps and social networking to track their progress and share experiences with friends and the online community. Parker Liautaud, now 17, became the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Niche social networks: Too focused or a playground for smaller brands?</title>
		<link>http://memeburn.com/2012/02/niche-social-networks-too-focused-or-a-playground-for-smaller-brands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Houston</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For a while now it has been the general belief that bigger brands with all the budget are making it nearly impossible for smaller brands with less budget to cut through the clutter and get themselves heard in advertising spaces. But how true is this statement when there are a lot of smaller niche sites [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook apps, Twitter see massive growth in the workplace</title>
		<link>http://memeburn.com/2012/01/facebook-apps-twitter-see-massive-growth-in-the-workplace/</link>
		<comments>http://memeburn.com/2012/01/facebook-apps-twitter-see-massive-growth-in-the-workplace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 05:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Thomas: Staff reporter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cityville]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know that Facebook apps, particularly the gaming, ones are incredibly popular. What might be surprising, however, is how rapidly the use of Facebook apps in the workplace has grown in the past year. According to new research from network security vendor Palo Alto networks, app traffic in the work place grew from four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A tweet from a kill: Should we stay connected when we’re away from it all?</title>
		<link>http://memeburn.com/2011/12/a-tweet-from-a-kill-should-we-stay-connected-when-we%e2%80%99re-away-from-it-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 04:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Britten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social networking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Orange River]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One morning last December, I tweeted from a lion kill. While the sounds of cracking bone and the reek of dead giraffe rose up through the swampy Lowveld air, I was hunched over my iPhone, tweeting about what I was watching. In my defense, I was so excited that I had to share the experience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smartphones, geosocial to drive massive growth in mobile social networking</title>
		<link>http://memeburn.com/2011/12/smarpthones-geosocial-to-drive-massive-growth-in-mobile-social-networking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 05:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stuart Thomas: Staff reporter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foursquare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gowalla]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Juniper Research]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yelp]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are around 650-million mobile social media users in the world today. According to Juniper Research, a company specialising in providing research and analysis to companies in the tech sector, that number is to set hit 1.3-billion by 2016 &#8212; &#8220;more than the total number of social media users on all platforms today&#8221;. Juniper Research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are social networks really killing privacy?</title>
		<link>http://memeburn.com/2011/12/are-social-networks-really-killing-privacy/</link>
		<comments>http://memeburn.com/2011/12/are-social-networks-really-killing-privacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 04:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sandra Pitcher</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Clay Shirky]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was recently reported that Facebook co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg, had his private Facebook account hacked. The hackers were able to download a number of private photographs from Zuckerberg’s account and share them throughout the Web. They claimed that they were attempting to highlight the flaws in Facebook’s new privacy settings which were installed in late [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six ways the &#8216;new new&#8217; Twitter changes everything</title>
		<link>http://memeburn.com/2011/12/six-ways-the-new-new-twitter-changes-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://memeburn.com/2011/12/six-ways-the-new-new-twitter-changes-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hilton Tarrant: Columnist</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dick Costolo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The launch of a major new version of Twitter’s service signals one important thing: Jack Dorsey is back. And Jack is in charge. His strength has always been in the &#8220;product&#8221; and up until now, there&#8217;s been an obvious void at Twitter. In many ways, it was trying to do everything for everyone &#8212; Evan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 great social data tools for journalists</title>
		<link>http://memeburn.com/2011/12/13-great-social-data-tools-for-journalists/</link>
		<comments>http://memeburn.com/2011/12/13-great-social-data-tools-for-journalists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 04:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Verweij</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online journalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nature of communication has fundamentally changed in the age of the network society. We are in contact with people via an email address, Twitter or Facebook name, or LinkedIn handle, even if we never have met them in real life. In the more traditional society of the past century our contacts were limited to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Sneaky Hat meme something we need to worry about?</title>
		<link>http://memeburn.com/2011/11/is-the-sneaky-hat-meme-something-we-need-to-worry-about/</link>
		<comments>http://memeburn.com/2011/11/is-the-sneaky-hat-meme-something-we-need-to-worry-about/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan Puttergill: Columnist</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Memes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social networking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Early this month, a bunch of kids in Queensland, Australia, created a Facebook fan page called &#8220;Sneaky Hat&#8221;. The original page has since been taken down, but it has quickly been replaced with alternatives such as this one. If you thought Planking or HorseManing were weird, I have to warn you that clicking on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 rules for managing &#8216;brand me&#8217; online</title>
		<link>http://memeburn.com/2011/11/10-rules-for-managing-brand-me-online/</link>
		<comments>http://memeburn.com/2011/11/10-rules-for-managing-brand-me-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 04:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Britten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chinese Wall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nonhle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former South African television presenter Nonhle Thema was revelling the apparent freedom her current state of unemployment gave her on Twitter the other night. &#8220;i can tweet whatever i want,&#8221; she said &#8220;NO 1 will FIRE ME or make me say sorry&#8230;&#8230;LOL..FREEDOM&#8230;.im FREE&#8221;. Sadly, most of us aren&#8217;t free, and we can&#8217;t say what we [...]]]></description>
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