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Some Thoughts on Twitter as a Micro-Blogging Tool

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It turns out that it works fine how I did it with the web version of Twitter but not with mobile. 1/ Twitter started off positioned as a micro-blogging platform but in the end became more of an RSS reader. 8/ Twitter eventually takes best of organic uses & builds into product. I faced the wrath of the community.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news.

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Entrepreneurs: Are You an Olympic Athlete or a Spectator?

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This event honors Small Business Champions– individuals or organizations dedicated to supporting small businesses. This year’s four winners include representatives from the Small Business Association, Microsoft, Visa, T-Mobile, and…an Olympic athlete. The conference ends with the Champion Awards Dinner. Share and Enjoy.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. In most instances news is now breaking on Twitter and then being picked up by news organizations. Social Networking is Becoming Mobile. cheap accessible digital hardware]. provides you.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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asymmetry, real-time, curated RSS / link-sharing]. mobile, locations, layering of services, data management, portability & more]. I’ve written extensively on the topic , but in a nutshell it is: an RSS reader, a chat room, instant messaging, a marketing channel, a customer service department and increasingly a data mine.

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Comments are the New Black

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But I constantly had to remind people every time I updated my blog (very few non-technical people were using RSS readers and nobody had even heard of Twitter) and I thought Facebook provided a way for me to publish pictures, blogs or random thoughts into a community rather than the community having to remember to find me. It is threaded.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. Jake Wood serves as President of Team Rubicon , the organization he co-founded following the massive earthquake in Haiti. Capsule is an event planning and group sharing platform built to help anyone who is planning, attending, or organizing a trip, party, or event. Idea Mensch.