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• Twitter buys social analytics firm Julpan

  Twitter has acquired Julpan, a startup founded last year that analyzes the way people share information on the social web with the goal of delivering fresh and relevant content to users.

• Auckland Council seeks social media monitor

  The Auckland Council has acknowledged the rise of Facebook and Twitter in a tender for media monitoring services, calling for monitoring of social media as well as traditional print, radio and television.

• DEMO '11: Keep your eyes on WeVideo

  While there were a lot of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/091511-demo-cloud-computing-250926.html?fsrc=netflash-rss">impressive technologies</a> at this year's <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/slideshows/2011/091311-demo.html">DEMO convention</a>, WeVideo looks like it has the most potential to be the Next Big Thing.

• Boston buzzes over start-ups at freebie-heavy WebInno

  Nothing gets people excited about technology start-ups like freebies, and there were plenty for the taking at Tuesday night’s <a href="http://webinnovatorsgroup.com/">Web Innovators Group</a> event in Cambridge, Mass. Though having learned lessons from start-ups that have crashed and burned in recent years from perhaps an excess of generosity without a good way to pay for it, this event that packed in hundreds of entrepreneurs and their followers wasn’t without a good dose of common sense about dollars and cents as well.

• $1 will get you in on latest social network start-up

  If you have a dollar to spare you can get in on the ground floor of <a href="https://mightybell.com/home">MightyBell</a>, a new social network company spearheaded by Gina Bianchini, formerly head of social website company Ning.

• Fast Five: this week in IT, 26/08

  Your hand-picked five-minute wrap up of the biggest Australian IT stories of the week.

• Post-riot, UK government halts talk of social media shutdown

  The U.K. government met on Thursday with technology companies for a post-mortem on the violent riots earlier this month, but made clear from the onset that it was no longer considering shutting down services in times of crisis.

• LinkedIn makes marketing shills of its members by default

  If you're a member of LinkedIn -- the social network with a business bent -- you might want to review some changes made in the service's privacy policy -- if you can find it.

• LulzSec gets Google+ boot, but returns

  Hacker group LulzSec ("the world's leaders in high-quality entertainment at your expense") has had its initial Google+ account nixed this week, though LulzSec has quickly and brashly re-emerged with a new one

• 10 things I hate about Google+

  I have a love-hate relationship with Google+. Because I love it and use it so much, I really hate its current limitations.

• Tablets used widely for business, says Social Nuggets survey

  Your employees' promises that they'll use a company-issued tablet for business purposes is probably on the up and up, according to the research firm Social Nuggets.

• OPINION: Why Twitter is obsolete

  The microblogging service Twitter debuted five years ago, and by all accounts it's one of the great success stories of the social media era.

• 4 ways social media improves work productivity (and 3 ways it doesn't)

  The corporate world's response to the phenomenal growth of social media has ranged from enthusiastic embrace to abject horror.

• Big tech names Dell, Torvalds among Google+ early adopters

  Part of the buzz this week about Google+ is that Google is reportedly working to lure celebrities such as Lady Gaga to its new social network service with verified accounts. Not sure if tech big shots beyond Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg count as celebrities, but the list of the technology industry’s biggest names using Google+ is on the rise.

• Google+ leaps to top spot among free iPhone apps

  The top free iPhone application is now Google+, the new social network system from Google, less than 24 hours after it appeared on Apple's App Store. And that's despite a foulup that apparently first published the wrong version of the app.