Happy New Year everyone, we’re a little late but Talk Social News returns with an exciting interview with All Stern of CenterNetworks.com & CloudContacts. Allen was gracious enough to do a second interview with us and it’s just as good as the first one. Allen is an entrepreneur, blogger, consultant and his blog Centernetworks.com was recently listed as one of the top 6 blogs to read for information on social media. For more information about Allen & CenterNetworks.comhere.

The interview: Talk Social News Episode 18 - length 57:12 download or click to play:

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Other segments of the podcast:

The what to blog:

New tech news site: http://TechFuga.com

In the fail of the week:

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch on Death To The Embargo

News of the Week:
Steve Jobs Health and MacWorld rumors

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Hello everyone, we hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving and haven’t spent to much money on Black Friday or Cyber Monday. Either way, after taken a week off for Thanksgiving, we’re back to bringing you some of leaders in Social Media on the web today. This week we had a chance to talk with our second female guest Angela Benton (@Abenton) who is the Founder and Publisher of BlackWeb20.com.

We talked with Angela about social media in the African-American community, how did BlackWeb 2.0 get started, challenges in being a female and building her online brand using social media and what’s next for Black Web 2.0.

The interview: Talk Social News Episode 15 - length 40:03 download or click to play:

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Other topic discussed this week are:
What the blog:
Cyber Monday & dealnews.com

Fail of the week:
Mumbai terror attacks on twitter. (our condolences goes out to the families.)

News this week

The history of twitter extended backgrounds & twitterimage.com
Facebook tries to buy twitter for how much?
Friendfeed & twitter have not killed blogging
Blackberry Storm & 10,000 iPhone apps

Tweetsgiving.org

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Ripple6 about Ripple6 being acquired by Gannett and how social media is going to integrated with traditional media.

The interview: Talk Social News Episode 14 - length 38:40 download or click to play:

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Other topic discussed this week are:
What the blog:
Obama’s first address to the nation on YouTube

Fail of the week:
A Sad Day In Silicon Valley

News this week
Blackberry Storm
How fast is google android phone?
Video Chat comes to Gmail
Twitter 20 interviews

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Talk Social News Episode 11:Talking social aggregation with Joel Longtine, engineer with SocialThing, how to turn your blog in to a book & according to Wired blogging is so 2004.

This week Talk Social News interviews Joel Longtine, engineer with SocialThing. Listen to what Joel has to say about social aggregation, life streaming and the what it was like to get purchased by AOL.

The interview: Talk Social News Episode 11 - length 29:33 download or click to play:

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SocialThing is in private beta but if you would like an invite let us know in the comments or send a tweet to @talksocialnews saying: I would like an invite to @socialthing

For our “What the Blog” section of the podcast, we review how to turn your blog into a book with Blurb.

The fail of the week is Wired.com post titled Twitter, Flickr, Facebook Make Blogs Look So 2004

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