Social Life Lives, Dumplings Made Official, Bloggers Bribed

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– ClickZ’s Rebecca Lieb takes a look at the current state of social networking and rightly concludes three things: It’s not new and it’s been around since the Internet was born. MySpace, Facebook and YouTube are far from the only social networks out there. And the hot social networks of today will almost definitely not be the hot ones of tomorrow.

– Commenting on Chef One Dumplings becoming the Official Dumplings of New York’s Brooklyn Cyclones. George Parker thinks the whole “official fill-in-the-blank of fill-in-the-blank” thing is stupid.

– Bloggers get bribed, um, paid, to post positive stories for paying brands. Everyone, rightfully so, freaks.

– K-Fed hooks up with K-Swiss and never again shall “celebrity” product endorsement be the same.

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