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How Content Turns Prospects Into Customers + MORE - Social Media News Feb 18th

Here's today's Round Up on all Things Social Media! Take note of the topic below: "How And Why To Prepare Your Business For Facebook Mobile Ads" We all know Facebook is the King of Social and with their pending IPO they will have a ton of cash to do more, buy more, build more. This whole con.... More »

Microsoft Outlook and Facebook

Microsoft Outlook’s Social Connector has a new update that was recently added to Facebook and also to Windows Live Messenger.   Microsoft’s newest version of Social Connector will allow a user to view status updates, wall posts and photos of their Facebook friends without having to leave thei.... More »

LinkedIn Has 85 Million Members

LinkedIn, the professional social networking site now has 85 Million members in total. According to LindedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, the site currently adds a new member every second and has recorded its fastest growth overseas. This figures were revealed during Web 2.0 Summit as Weiner shared them wi.... More »

Facebook Means Business

Facebook is a very impressive tool not just for individuals, but for businesses and brands as well.  If you’ve considered using social networking sites to help promote your business, here is a summary of tools that Facebook has developed to help your business. Facebook Pages were created to gi.... More »

Facebook Integrated Into Skype 5.0

Skype 5.0 for Windows was just released and with it comes major improvements and feature additions, the most notable of these being the Facebook tab allowing users to chat, SMS, or call their Facebook friends via Skype right from the News Feed.   The Facebook News Feed option will display a diges.... More »

We’ve long speculated as to when Facebook might get its own version of Twitter’s retweet, and it appears that the time is now. This evening, the site rolled out a “via” feature that lets you repost another user’s shared items, with a “via” link attached for attribution.

It appears the feature is live for everyone. To try it, just go to a friend’s posted item in your news feed, click “share,” and you’ll see a “via [your friend’s name]” (with an option to remove it). Once shared, the item will appear on your profile, with a via link that points to your friend’s profile. Your friends will also see the item in their News Feeds, creating the viral loop that is the Twitter (Twitter) retweet.

Currently, the feature only works for posted links – you can’t “via” someone else’s status update or photo. Nonetheless, given the most visible use of retweets on Twitter is links, with aggregators like Tweetmeme (Tweetmeme) tracking which stories get retweeted the most, it’s a big move for Facebook (Facebook) that makes its service even more Twitter-like.

Where the feature goes from here, we’re not sure, but given the social network’s ambition to make more and more of what you post public, it’s clearly another attempt to become more relevant in the world of real-time news, search, and information. Whether or not users respond and start posting “shared via links” (is that what we call them?) will also remain to be seen.

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