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MediaFunnel, the “Team Tool for Social Media” previously known as TweetFunnel, has rebranded to reflect the company’s focus on providing a single interface from which businesses can manage all of their social media channels.  

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MediaCore is ramping up towards v1.0, offering a free video and podcast management tool for digital delivery and encouraging social content.

You might’ve written off Google Buzz by now and, admittedly, we could’ve had a little something to do with it. But Google hasn’t given up on the microblogging tool just yet. In fact, the team’s latest announcement may wash over some of you in an awesome, relief-tinted wave.   

Erm, remember Google Wave? You know, that thing with all the things, and the chatting and the e-mailing, and the collaboration. Well, it just got more things. Google introduced the Google Wave Extensions Gallery bright and early this morning. Developers? For the sake of Wave, please get on this.  

Many of us have wondered if and when social media will knock out the need for e-mail, but a survey from Econsultancy suggests that we’re far from losing touch with our inboxes. In fact, Econsultancy says social media is being used to enhance the effectiveness of e-mail.

Maybe it’s because of the growing popularity of SaaS, but Virtual Moment, LLC has announced that it is changing its ‘Doing Business As. . ‘(DBA) name from Spitfire Photo Pro to WebDAM, and said it will concentrate its resources on SaaS digital asset management (DAM).

In what looks like an attempt to make RSS more fun, Google has released a little tool called Google Reader Play. The Google Reader alternative allows users to browse headlines one at a time in an image-heavy environment, rather than wade through streams of text. 

FuzeBox kicked out a new Twitter-based application for rich media, publishing content, promoting offers, and creating conversational threads. Basically, it’s like Twitter plus FriendFeed, wrapped up in a neat little package for marketers.

The fourth "Future of the Internet" survey is now available from the PEW Internet and American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center. In this latest survey we find that Google will not make us stupid. In fact, our reading, writing and knowledge sharing capabilities will be improved. But that’s only the beginning.

Cloud computing and virtualization reflect a general movement driven by the Web: a shift towards a more service-driven economy.

Here’s a fun Friday thought: Mobile social networks that are private, targeted to niche groups and location-based.  

"Go mobile young man" is the cry as a top Googler (news, site) echoes his bosses sentiment on the smartphone being the way forward.

When we last spoke with Jim Gaines, we talked about the future of digital publishing. Recently we had the opportunity to catch up with Gaines again. This time, he had a story to tell.

This week Google added a new feature to their Search functionality and it is oh-so-handy.  

Basically, it’s the stars you use to differentiate messages in Gmail, but now you can use them to favorite search results (just like Tweets!). Simply click the star marker on any search result or map, and the next time you perform a search, your relevant starred items will appear in a list right at the top of your results:

Google Stars in Search 

Google says that Stars—which also sync with Google Bookmarks and Google Toolbar—will replace Big G’s SearchWiki service. Never heard of it? Understandable; it seems hardly anyone uses it anyway.