Each year, Beloit College has releases a Mindset List, taking a glimpse at the culture of each incoming college class. This helps professors gain perspective on the audience they teach, and helps them not sound "dated".

A few examples:

2. Email is just too slow, and they seldom if ever use snail mail.

7. “Caramel macchiato” and “venti half-caf vanilla latte” have always been street corner lingo.

27. Computers have never lacked a CD-ROM disk drive.

Addictomatic works pretty simple: enter a topic in the search field, then the app returns data per specific platform. The layout is very similar for iGoogle users, and you can browse to see what people are saying about your brand or product on Wordpress, Twitter, Yahoo and everything else.

If your Tweet-heavy lifestyle is in need of some comic relief, you probably should take the tour.

Have you checked out what Pop Tarts have been doing with Facebook lately? With over a million fans, the page is a great example of how to take the product, add personality and get fans excited about it. The photos also use pretty basic Photoshop work that carry that UGC element. My favorite is the chocolate chip cookie dough turntables.

Facebook plans to launch an even more stripped-down version for mobile phones called "Facebook Zero". It's a text-based approach that will make Facebook more accessible for mobile users with basic phones and slow connection speeds. This may help Facebook expand it's growing number of mobile users, which currently totals over 100 million.

Location-based apps make sense for events that attract thousands of people. That's why The New York Times created The Times On Foursquare for 2010 Winter Olympics attendees. Newcomers to Vancouver can get a rundown of the best places to eat, visit, and hangout, and if you check into two suggested venues, you unlock the NYT Olympics badge.

A new tool called Twiangulate draws follower data from single and multiple Twitter accounts. Find out who your most influential followers (Tweeps) are, followers you have in common with others, and more. Twiangulate allows you to gather the info from up to three followers.

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