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Hey! Nielsen is a new opinion/social networking /rating community created by The Nielsen Company.  It’s taking community members opinions and ratings of TV, movies, music, personalities, and Internet and combining them with data from their sister sites – Billboard.com, HollywoodReporter.com, and BlogPulse.com – to gather the Hey! Nielsen score.  The Hey! Nielsen score gives users and important media mogul types an idea of what people are saying about what’s on TV, in the movies, etc.  Could this influence the powers that be to make 5 more seasons of Lost?    Who knows, but it’s still an interesting concept of how to use social networking to gather data.  Here’s my screencast tour of Hey! Nielsen:

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Google has launched (sort of) a new social bookmarking tool – Google Shared Stuff.  Basically, it’s a bookmarklet that allows you to quickly share web pages that you find interesting on your Shared Stuff page.  Your page includes a profile where you can add a photo, personal information, and links to your own blogs or websites.  You can share just the link or a preview, which is just an image from the web page and the title of the post.  Your Shared Stuff page is public but it’s not really clear how people are able to find your page unless you email them a link to view it.  For more insight, check out Marshall’s review of Google Shared Stuff here.  Here’s my screencast tour of Google Shared Stuff:

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