This is the A2SM Link Post for March 5th through March 6th. To see more of the bookmarks we’ve found, check out our Delicious Feed.

• The Successful Self-Selection of Social Media – The Roger Smith Hotel has offered a lesson in social media marketing, making it a notable (and now rather popular) hotel destination in the big city of Manhattan. Techipedia outlines the major points of The Roger Hotel’s success, outlining the company’s dedication to its online audience. From running promotions that are exclusive to those social media channels to finding ways of becoming a part of the online conversations already taking place, there’s a lot that can be learned about social media marketing, and its power to bring an audience as well as convert them into real, paying consumers.
• Google Takes a Picnik – Google has acquired Picnik, the Seattle-based photo-editing app that lives in the cloud. I always sort of thought of Picnik as Photoshop Elements that I could access from anywhere.
• How Roger Smith Hotel Put Itself on the Map through Social Media » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg – Did you know that New York City offers more opportunities than the standard tourist attractions? Did you know that there are other hotels beyond the Hyatts, the Hiltons, the Omnis, the Sheratons, and the Marriotts of the world in NYC? I know when my parents come to NYC, they go to what’s familiar. When you go to a conference in Manhattan, you probably seek out hotels that you’ve also heard of. Face it, it’s a competitive landscape out there, especially for tourists who flock to familiar names but perhaps do not realize that there are other options in the city. How does one small hotel possibly compete with these hotel franchises? Is it even possible?
• Major Facebook Investor Hopes to Score with Chatroulette – Digital Sky Technologies, the Russian venture capital firm that has invested $400 million in Facebook, has apparently made an offer to buy a piece of Chatroulette, the webcam network where you can chat with random strangers.
• Gowalla Launches for Android – The battle for social geolocation domination has expanded to Google’s Android platform, as Gowalla, the primary competitor to Foursquare, has just made its debut on Google’s Android app store.
• Foursquare and SPIN Magazine Turn SXSW Into Musical Scavenger Hunt – Popular music magazine SPIN is going geeky for South by Southwest’s music festival, integrating custom Foursquare badges into its event presence and rewarding the most adventurous users of the location-based game with free tickets to their annual music showcase at Stubb’s.
• A special report on social networking: A world of connections | The Economist – THE annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, currently in progress, is famous for making connections among the global great and good. But when the delegates go home again, getting even a few of them together in a room becomes difficult. To allow the leaders to keep talking, the forum’s organisers last year launched a pilot version of a secure online service where members can post mini-biographies and other information, and create links with other users to form collaborative working groups. Dubbed the World Electronic Community, or WELCOM, the forum’s exclusive online network has only about 5,000 members.
• How Mark Zuckerberg Hacked The Harvard Crimson – This is the story of how, in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg hacked into the email accounts of two Harvard Crimson reporters using data obtained from TheFacebook.com's logs. The details are drawn from a broader investigation of the origins of Facebook, the sourcing of which is described here.
• Social Media Today | How to Match 10 Key Success Metrics to Your Blogging Strategy – Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition. Is anyone out there? Does anyone care?<br />
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  However, even within the business (non cat) blogging arena, there are a wide variety of potential measures to gauge your momentum. It’s imperative that you select the most relevant ones that match with your blog’s purpose and intent.
• Social Media Today | The 5 Key Elements of Social Media Hard Work –