Intel published Social Media Guidelines for employees
>> Intel.com

More than 100.000 downloads for Wordpress 2.7  within 20 hrs
>> Boren.nu

Courtesy of Kmart:  Bloggers on shopping spree
>> Mediapost.com

Corporate blogs, are they trustworthy?
>> Readwriteweb.com

40 million Americans using Social Networks
>> Readwriteweb.com

Twitter Specials:

Feed your own blog with tweets
>> Twitterfeed.com

List of German Startups Twitterers
>> Deutsche-Startups.de

Have a great weekend!

Foundation of the Social Media Club Hamburg

Ebay – The U.S User numbers decline (Link)

Much ado about nothing – Red light for StudiVZ (Link)

OpenID vs. Connect, let the (cooperation) battle continues (Link

Market concentration: Twitter‘s rival- Pownce surrenders (Link)

Yellow card – 51.com has worldwide the strongest coverage as Open Social Community (Link)
Additional Presentations about it: (Link)

Handelsblatt Editorial – Knüwer vs. Iwersen, even indiscretion is a matter of honor (Link)

der Netzökonom adelt das Web – Internet wird zum Leitmedium: (Link)

Twitter specials:
Measurement of Twitter- Engagement: (Link)

Top of the Tweets – the top 10 lists of famous Brits’ twitterers (Link)

Twitter & Co. for companies, for god’s sake!!! (Link)

A Twitter search engine:
http://www.twitscoop.com

A Twitter – Tool, which concerns itself with “followers” of specific User:
http://tw33t.me

Tool, for auto Follow People on Twitter >> Twollow

A tool for ranking your twitter account and checking the twitter fame within your city >> Twitter Grade

Another tool, which picks, sums and ranks posted links of twitterers :
http://www.twitturls.com

Yet, another tool (kind of old actually but still interesting), which lists corporate twitterers:
http://blog.metaroll.de/2008/04/17/corporate-twitter-die-liste

Twittering as PR – Tools? Here are 2 available online presentations:
http://fly.ingsparks.de/2008-11-15/twitter-als-pr-tool

A quick guideline, on how a company should act on Twitter:
http://valleywag.com/5056678/how-to-keep-your-company-from-looking-stupid-on-twitter

The infamous Obama on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/barackobama
Watch out, two r’s are needed! http://twitter.com/barrackobama
One gets to read interesting statements such as: “Yes, President Bush is really every bit as intelligent in person as he appears on television when Barney lets him get a word in edgewise.”
That’d be all, have a great weekend!