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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

Social media users are over 60% more likely to check email at least four times a day than those who don’t use social media. The reduction in screen size has made the economic model of Internet advertising totally inefficient. source: Harris Interactive IM Shopping Poll (August 2009)). Not so fast.

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Interview with Neville Spiteri, TheBlu

socalTECH

Because of that, we've brought onto the team very experienced folks in interactive entertainment, social media, and web infrastructure, which are all key components of what we are doing. It's kind of a combination of web, social media, storytelling, an hard core software engineering, all of the required elements.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. They also provide a set of tools for artists to sell tickets directly to their fan bases through tools like Facebook ticketing and social media management tools. They also have my favorite company intro video ever.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Now, thanks to social media, you don't have to outspend. You could just outspend. You could use brute force to get the word out. There is a much better technique. It is to out friend.

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IBM’s Watson Analyzes Kanye West’s VMA Speech for Character Defects

Tech Zulu Event

Your social media feed was probably filled this morning with information about the 13-minute speech Kanye West made during the 2015 VMA broadcast, but only the objective big data behind Watson can really break it down scientifically. And look at that [points to screen]. Even Queen Bee herself, wanted no part of that rant.

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IBM’s Watson Analyzes Kanye West’s VMA Speech for Character Defects

Tech Zulu Event

Your social media feed was probably filled this morning with information about the 13-minute speech Kanye West made during the 2015 VMA broadcast, but only the objective big data behind Watson can really break it down scientifically. And look at that [points to screen]. Even Queen Bee herself, wanted no part of that rant.

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How to Solve the Biggest Frustration Marketers Have With Social

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When polled 88% of marketing professionals said they couldn’t accurately measure the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns and the majority said lack of ROI measurement is their single greatest frustration with social media (Forbes). Here’s a screen shot of my home page on awe.sm. No brainer.

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