Google is rumored to be working on a Facebook/Twitter-like feature for Gmail. According to the Wall Street Journal , who cites "people familiar with the matter", the feature, which would "make it easier and faster" to share status updates may launch as soon as this week. As I've written about a number of times, Google is really one big social network with a bunch of features, and integration is the key to harnessing that social power.

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In many ways, the last traces of the 2009 holiday season have disappeared - you won't find many decorations up, presents out, or leftovers refrigerated (we hope). comScore's just released a report concerning the mobile market, though, and the stats are well worth examining. comScore's report covers the changes that occurred between September and December of last year. During that time, RIM stayed on top in terms of smartphone platforms, but it lost a little bit of ground.

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by Mike Krumboltz Remember those quizzes you had on the state capitals back in junior high? Oh, the pressure! The temptation to write "Pierre, Olympia, Dover, Albany" on the inside of your hand was overwhelming, wasn't it? But you resisted. Maybe Sarah Palin should have done the same. The former vice presidential candidate seems to have been caught using curious crib notes during an interview this past weekend at the high-profile Tea Party Convention in Nashville.

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released data from the comScore MobiLens service, reporting key trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry over the three month period between September and December 2009. The report ranked the leading mobile original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and smartphone operating system (OS) platforms in the U.S. according to their share of current mobile subscribers age 13 and older,

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by Claudine Zap Our top picks from the day's hottest searches. Bourbon Street cam (Searches increased by +3,137%). If you can't be in New Orleans to celebrate the Super Bowl victory in person, you can always watch from afar. Kim Kardashian (+761%). The reality star said that watching her running back beau Reggie Bush win the Super Bowl was like "everything you see in a movie." Except, real! Focus on the Family (+750%).

Is social media better than a 60-second ad spot that costs around $3 million. Pepsi thinks so which is why they chose to launch a viral campaign at RefreshEverything.com instead of advertising in the Super Bowl this year. Pepsi plans to give away $20 million in grant money to fund projects in various categories. People can go there now to submit ideas and vote on other ideas. From the Yahoo News article : The problem, say marketing experts,

As WebProNews reported , Mullen and Radian6 partnered to launch BrandBowl2010 , a Twitter/Super Bowl event that allowed users to see near real-time ratings of the Super Bowls commercials. The two companies have now released the results. They determined that Doritos was the most effective brand to advertise during the Super Bowl, and that Budweiser Select55 was the least effective. The results were determined from 98,656 Tweets collected.