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Salesforce is getting into the "real-time" niche, too. Today the company unveiled Chatter, a social tool for corporations. Integrating heavily into Salesforce.com software, Chatter shows real-time activity feeds from across its suite of customer relationship management software.  

Yesterday, Twitter changed its organizing question from "What Are You Doing?" to "What's Happening?" But if you want to know what's really happening now, check out Hot Potato , a startup launching right now at our Realtime CrunchUp . Hot Potato is releasing an iPhone app which lets you create a stream of conversations around events based both on your location and what your friends are doing.  

Despite the lingering economic woes that most Americans are still feeling, only one in five plans to reduce donations to charity this holiday season, the American Red Cross found in a new survey . Instead, Americans will cut back on travel, decorations and other holiday spending. The results tell a somewhat different story than a recent Harris Interactive survey that showed charities will probably see a decrease in generosity this season.  

Twitter , the free micro-blogging system that lets users post 140-character messages, is getting more than $4 million a year in revenue from companies that use Twitter data, according to Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo, who spoke at a conference in San Francisco on Friday. Twitter has more than 58 million users, Costolo said, and has raised $155 million in venture capital. Twitter does not carry advertising but Costolo said the company is working on an ad system.  

With gadgets like the Apple ( AAPL ) iPhone becoming more common, media content is increasingly ubiquitous. And as much as readers may value a good story written by a Wall Street Journal reporter, only a minority is willing to pay for it. That's the new media reality and the basis of Stone's criticism.  

A woman who was brutally attacked at a British nightclub successfully tracked down her attacker on Facebook after police said they had no leads. The Telegraph reports that in March, Jennifer Wilson, 20, was nearly blinded when Ashleigh Holliman, 22, rammed a pint glass in her face less than an inch under her left eye. Following the unprovoked attack, police said that the video camera in the club wasn't clear and that nightclub staff had cleaned up the crime scene.

In the end I had to do the police's job for them and track this girl down on Facebook   -Jennifer Wilson

 

interlinkONE Inc., a leading provider of web-based marketing software solutions, today announced the release of its latest application, ilink.Me, providing another touch point for multi-channel marketing campaigns. The application creates a link that is an abbreviated version of a websites typically long address. The link can be posted in an e-mail or on social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn as a way to quickly and easily direct people to a companys website.  

The operators of the Large Hadron Collider have successfully sent a beam of particles around the ring of the world's largest particle collider in Switzerland. It is the first time the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, has been operational since September 2008, when an electrical connection in the collider's magnets melted, causing a tonne of super-cooled liquid helium to leak into the tunnel. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced the success on Twitter on Friday afternoon ET.  

As we near the end of the year, CMOs are planning their marketing strategies for 2010. We learned during the recent Forbes CMO Summit that progressive CMOs are putting more resources behind their social marketing efforts. They recognize that social marketing affects nearly all forms of digital marketing, including e-mail, advertising, search and Web marketing.