In just a few hours, you will be able to choose a specific username – which will create a vanity url – for your Facebook account.  Here is the link: http://www.facebook.com/username/ Also, here is a great blog post explaining how this relates to businesses. http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/facebook-vanity-urls-and-what-brands-need-to-know/ var addthis_pub = ”; var addthis_brand = ‘MRK-Marketing’;var addthis_language = [...]

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Bing is a new search engine that was introduced by Microsoft earlier this week.  Today, I finally had a chance to try it out.  I’m not impressed. I’ve heard a lot about Bing in the past few weeks – Microsoft is calling it an “internet decision engine” vs an “internet search engine”.  They cited a study [...]

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