StumbleUpon is hot. The discovery and recommendation engine that makes web browsing a lot like channel surfing just announced it’s now handling 1 billion stumbles per month.

On top of that impressive number, StumbleUpon just closed a second round of funding in March, wrapping up $17 million of series B financing.

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When you’re marketing to an audience that believes “what I’ve always been doing works just fine,” it’s hard to get the point across that there’s a better way to live life or do business. Even when a business creates a product or service that solves a problem or opens an opportunity, sometimes, the market still doesn’t realize that there’s a problem in the first place. 

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You might have noticed a trend in more and more marketing, where large brands are featuring real people and actual employees in their ads. The end of the new Intel ads feature employees singing the well known "Intel bong" - the four note chime at the end of their ads. Best Buy uses their employees in their ads wearing their trademark blue polo shirts. The entire Domino's pizza new campaign about their revamped pizza is using real employees.

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BY --Trevor Jonas

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Have a Facebook page but don’t know how to make it stand out?

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We all know by now that Foursquare is the “it” thing for businesses in the F&B industry.

It is not only useful in building a connection between the place and the people, it is also a great tool to reward loyal customers and give them the power to spread your word.

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Three months ago, the media predicted that Facebook would “open” up its network by simply allowing people to let others follow them even if they were not friends. They are going two steps further… ReadWriteWeb reports Facebook’s announcement that they would open up their firehose of data to third party developers. Last week (via NY Times), Facebook also reported they will add user locational data to their streams, in order to match up with the mobile utility provided by Foursquare, Gowalla, Twitter and other geolocational apps.

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New figures suggest that social networking is continuing to gain in popularity on the web, and that the way users search the internet is changing.

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