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Google is trying once again to capture some of the momentum surrounding social networking companies like Facebook and Twitter by adding new features to Gmail, its popular e-mail service. Later this week, Google will introduce add-ons to Gmail that let users post and view messages about their day-to-day activities, according to a person at Google briefed on its plans. This simple tweak to Gmail will allow Google to mimic the status updates that have driven much of the success of Facebook and Twitter, ...

It might look like a minor feature advance, but this is another blow in the war against Facebook   -Jeremiah Owyang

 

The 2010 Bonnaroo artists themselves are using social media to announce their participation in the 2010 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival. As of 10 a.m. Weezer, Blues Traveler, the Flaming Lips and Phoenix have already used outlets to confirm their participation in the event. In addition, the official Bonnaroo Twitter (http://twitter.com/bonnaroo ) has been giving hints about artists, including a Tweet that seems to indicate Jeff Beck as a participant.  

Corporate Insight, the leading provider of competitive intelligence to the financial services industry, today released its 2009 annual Monitor Awards. Corporate Insight presented Gold, Silver and Bronze awards to firms providing the best online offerings in the banking, brokerage, credit card, annuity, mutual fund and mutual fund advisor segments of the financial services industry. Firms were evaluated in several categories, including account information, ...  

Deals of the Day gathers all the biggest news of the morning related to mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcies, financing and private equity. Deal Journal's homepage is http://blogs.wsj.com/deals. You can see real-time updates of our posts and our favorite deal-related articles on other Web sites through our Twitter feed at http://twitter.com/wsjdealjournal .

This generation of Wall Street CEOs could be the ones to forfeit America’s trust. When the history of the Great Recession is written, they can be singled out as the bonus babies who were so short-sighted that they put the economy at risk and contributed to the destruction of their own companies. Or they can acknowledge how Americans’ trust has been lost and take the first steps to earn it back.   -Elizabeth Warren

 

As China prepares to usher in the Year of the Tiger next week, a massive publicity drive has begun in neighbouring India, where the big cat is the national animal, to save it from extinction. Conservation group WWF-India has enlisted the support of sports stars and celebrities to raise awareness of the threat, citing government estimates that there are just over 1,400 tigers left in the wild. The campaign, fronted by India cricket captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and top footballer Bhaichung Bhutia, ...  

Who do you think of when you want to search for what's happening now? Increasingly people are searching social networks like Twitter and Facebook, and Google has increased the speed of its index to offer more up-to-date real-time information. In the realm of technology, Techmeme has had a lock on live news for a few years now.  

Lily Allen has denied suggestions that she hopes to fly into this month's Brit Awards on a model aeroplane. It had been suggested that the '22' singer would outdo Lady GaGa with an aviation themed stage show at the Earl's Court ceremony on February 16. Allen wrote on her Twitter page: "For the record, I shan't be flying in to the Brit Awards, nor have I requested to do so."

For the record, I shan't be flying in to the Brit Awards, nor have I requested to do so.   -Lily Allen

 

PHOENIX --(Business Wire)-- Help a Reporter Out (HARO), a social media company serving reporters, public relations professionals, entrepreneurs and small businesses, selected Lucky Dog Creative to launch a new online user experience that completely automates information and streamlines the process of connecting reporters with expert sources while providing small businesses with free PR and affordable direct marketing to an engaged community of buyers. Within days of the new HARO website launch, ...

When I first launched HARO on the web in March of 2008, I never ever could have imagined that in under two years, we'd become the de-facto standard for crowd-sourcing   -Peter Shankman

 

blueKiwi, the global conversation company, today announced the availability of a free version of the blueKiwi Social Business Platform. Designed for marketers, community managers and innovation teams, the new, free version delivers all of the social media tools necessary to create vibrant online communities with external audiences. Now companies can deliver communities for customers, partners and prospects directly from their website.

In today's business environment, everyone is managing a community of some sort, and their greatest challenge is finding new and innovative ways to engage those communities   -Erica Lee