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McDonald's Archenemies: Mickey D's vs Chipotle?

McDonald’s appears to be getting a jump start on Valentine’s Day with their cute new commercial, Archenemies.

Facebook's Oculus Rift Acquisition & Gwyneth Paltrow's Conscious Uncoupling Blog

David Erickson and B.L. Ochman discuss Caribou Coffee’s aggressive upselling; Gwyneth Paltrow’s Conscious Uncoupling & Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus Rift.

Rogers High School Social Media Controversy [VIDEO]

Rogers High School student Reid Sagehorn’s ill-considered tweet will likely force him to explain his role in this controversy for the rest of his life.

Coca-Cola's Multicultural Ad Backlash & Amazon.com's Entry Into Video Games [VIDEO]

Beyond Social Media Show, Episode 34 topics: Journalists’ Tweets from Sochi Olympics hotels; UBERConference add-on to Google Hangouts; Coca-Cola’s It’s Beautiful Super Bowl ad backlash; BBC’s caption fail celebrates The Year of the Whores; Amazon.com buys Double Helix Games; Google introduces Chromebox for Meetings corporate video conferencing solution; Amazon.com’s Flow App completely removes the friction from eCommerce; the Snow Day video goes viral from Kentucky; Chobani lets its fans speak; Hands Only CPR; some shiny new stuff and The Daily Numbers.

Social Wars

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has 44,871 followers on Google+.

Facebook Calling

There are 124 million Skype account holders worldwide.

Roger Ebert's Ill-Advised Tweet Nets 10K New Followers

Roger Ebert gained 10,500 new Twitter fans 2 days after Tweeting “Friends don’t let jackasses drive drunk” in response to the death of Jackass star Ryan Dunn.

The Kindle Million: Vanity Press Can Be Lucrative

Self-published author John Locke has sold 1,010,370 Kindle books using the Kindle Direct Publishing service from Amazon.com.

Google Wallet

In 2010, mobile commerce accounted for $3.4 billion.

WCCO TV Covers Daily Deals Sites

I offered my perspective for a WCCO TV report by producer Gregg Litman last night on the Daily Deal websites like Groupon, LivingSocial and CrowdCut that are currently super popular.