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Added to my Delicious bookmarks between July 11th through July 16th:

• Comcast rolls out iPhone app for phone and e-mail features, TV listings, and movie trailers – he program gives Comcast subscribers access to Digital Voice features such as voicemail, contact management (you can sync your iPhone contacts with your Comcast contacts), and call forwarding from your home phone to your iPhone. You also have access to your Comcast e-mail with both e-mail messages and voicemail messages under one “SmartZone” tab.
• Being the Brand’s Bird: Guidelines for the Professional Twitter User – If you want to create conversations, you have to be friendly and interesting. Because of this, you might start to feel like you’re getting paid to be a social butterfly. You are not. You’re getting paid to represent the company. It’s a very fine line between being a socially active company run by real people, and being an individual who isn’t afraid to speak his mind.
• Facebook is stickiest site on the internet – iMedia Connection – the average U.S. internet user spent four hours and 39 minutes on Facebook in June, according to a report (PDF) from Nielsen, making the social network the stickiest website on the internet.
• Kids' Online Time Jumps 63% in 5 Years – MarketingVOX – The number of children between ages two and 11 who go online totaled nearly 16 million in May 2009 and comprised 9.5% of the active internet-using universe in the US.

  There also has been a 63% increase since 2004 in the amount of time this group spends online, according to (pdf) data from Nielsen Online (via MarketingCharts).

• White House Seeks Amateur Videos For Flu PSA – $2,500 Prize – ParentDish – White House crowdsources swine flu PSAs using YouTube as the platform.
• College Students’ Facebook Use Easing Up Over the Summer, While Parents Logging On in Record Numbers – As Facebook crosses the 70 million active US user mark this month, one surprising group of Facebook users is actually coming back less: college students. Facebook’s audience amongst users 18-25 decreased by nearly 600,000 users (3%) in the last month, while their parents (and grandparents) are logging on in record numbers.

More from breebop.com

• Link roundup: read & recommended between July 16th and July 21st
• Link roundup: read & recommended between July 8th and July 10th
• Link roundup: read & recommended between July 23rd and July 24th

Tags: children, comcast, corporateblogging, demographics, engagement, facebook, gov2.0, health, healthcomm, iphone, nielsen, research, socialmedia, telecom, Twitter, YouTube

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