Looking at the Future of Social Media

This post at Search Engine Journal references a social media project at Carnegie Mellon called Socialstream which, among other things, was created to "rethink and reinvent social networking".

Email Marketing Council Merges With EEC

The Direct Marketing Association has announced it will merge its Email Marketing Council with the Email Experience Council in an effort to strengthen the multichannel marketing environment.

Facebook Hires Former AOL Exec

In the past seven or so years, Chamath Palihapitiya worked at AOL and co-founded MyMusicChannel.  He then moved on to Mayfield Fund, which has “over $2.7 billion under management.”  Now Palihapitiya’s found another job; he will serve as Facebook’s vice president of product marketing and operations.