These are my links for December 15th through December 31st:

• How Much Time Does Social Media Marketing Take? –
• Unboxing: Square – PSFK's first look at the mobile application that allows people to accept credit card payments from one another.
• Twitter Blog: To Trend or Not to Trend… – Since Twitter first introduced the Trends feature in the summer of 2008, one frequently asked question has been “Why isn’t X trending?” This question has come up around a variety of subjects, from #justinbieber and #adamlambert to #flotilla, #iranelection and #demo2010.
• Gawker told users it would fix password weakness in 2008 – but didn’t – Gawker was made aware two years ago of flaws in its password encryption system, and promised users it would "improve" it – but did not, which made it easier for its system to be hacked earlier this year.
• Forecast for 2011: @Documentally on the year social media geeks will become the norm – There are few people more immersed in social media than Christian Payne, who spent 2010 wrapped up in a feast of experimental projects that included hitching across the country using only social media tools.
• Social Learning Tools for the School Classroom –
• Building an highly converting and effective Facebook campaign – Facebook campaigns are widely used these days and account one of the highest advertising sales each year on the internet and are just behind Google Adwords
• Honda US cops to vast data snaffle from marketing firm • The Register – You don't just need to ensure that you are taking enough care about the security and protection of the private customer data you store – you also need your partners and third-party vendors to follow equally stringent best practices
• MySpace employees face uncertain 2011 • The Register –
• Anonymous hacktivists fire ion cannons at Zimbabwe –
• Facebook versus Twitter in 2011 » runmarketing.co.uk –
• 2010 Chinese blogosphere: Peace and conflict · Global Voices – The top stories among Chinese communities in Northeast Asia in 2010 can be summarized with two key words: Peace and Conflict.
• Gotta love the Playbutton: Self-playing music for digital times – If you still buy music on CDs or vinyl from record shops, you have to take it home before you can hear it, unless you carry a portable player around. But what if the record could play itself?
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• What do Google, Ask and Bing search results mean? Will they reveal the thoughts of a connected world? – It's easy to think search engine queries could provide a gold mine of data, but it's not easy to know how to exploit, says Michael Blastland in his regular BBC column.