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Quick Hits: May 13

Twitter to Launch “Business Center”

Twitter is inviting a select group of businesses to beta test its new “Business Center”. This new tool is designed to allow businesses to set up company profiles and have multiple users tweet on its behalf.  Most significantly, for the first time companies will be allowed to receive direct messages from anyone….even if the company…

Friday Five: Location-Based Social Networks

Arguably one of the most compelling pieces of the broader social networking boom has been the ability to take a relationship built online and move it offline or, at the very least, “online” to “in-person.” It’s the flipping of that paradigm that makes the latest wave of location-based social networking services so interesting. Users take their physical, offline location and put it online. While there is often a gaming aspect to this decision (users get points and badges as rewards for various levels of engagement), the broader goal is to draw attention to that…