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In almost every science fiction movie there are displays that overlay graphics or holograms onto the real world in order to display more information.

Starbucks runs a Web property called MyStarbucksIdea.com (or MSI for short), which is an effort to support social media outside of the typical 2.0 diet of Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

The rules for good manners apply online just as they would in face-to-face conversations.

Google Alerts is a free service that provides the user with e-mail updates of current, relevant Google search results based on keywords the user select.

Video can be as simple or as elaborate as you can afford. One of the benefits of experimenting with video is that it’s a medium that is easily shared online

A steady image is a great image.

Twitter is a free social networking and micro messaging service that enables its users to send and read messages. Tweets, which I described earlier, are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers, who are known as “followers.”

Blogging initially defined what social media and Web 2.0 buzz was all about, and blogs are even more relevant today.

The key for a one-person effort is to carefully decide how many online communities you can update and monitor.

Applications (apps), which are software downloads, are one of the greatest marketing tools a business can utilize in a mobile campaign. In December 2009, eMarketer released a study revealing that iPhone and Android users are spending more than half their mobile time using applications.