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Facebook in the real world

h/t Steve Petersen

The Social Media Webby Award Winners, Mashable.

The 2008 Webby Award winners were announced a few scant hours ago. Given the amazing amount of social media and blogosphere award winners announced (not to mention the sheer volume of nominees and categories in general), it’ll probably be 2009 by the time I’m done with this post, but I’m going to take a crack at summarizing all the award winners you’ll be interested as an ardent and frequent reader of Mashable.

The Regulars
All the sites, services and software you’re already familiar with made appearances. Facebook, Digg, Flock and Flickr and Apple all made appearances. Conspicuously absent? Business centric old-schoolers like LinkedIn and Plaxo and Facebook predecessors Friendster and MySpace (not to mention most popular browser evar Firefox).

Viral Coefficients And Political Freedom in Lebanon: Terrific Responses to Yesterday’s Facebook Story, e.politics.

Yesterday’s Facebook article generated some fantastic comments both here and on the techPresident version, with plenty of things to chew on for a while, and you guys are crazy if you miss out on them. So, let’s gather ‘em up in one easy bundle and take ‘em on home.

Unconventional wisdom reigns in this campaign, Mercury News.

Convention: Bloggers are intriguing, but hardly relevant.

Truth: Obama's comments about small-town Americans being "bitter" were recorded by an Oakland blogger on her MP3 player while attending a San Francisco fundraiser. Part of a brigade of volunteer bloggers for Huffingtonpost.com, Mayhill Fowler set the Democratic race on its ear.