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Why Twitter Matters

May 16th, 2008 · No Comments

BusinessWeek
Can the fledgling microblogging service become a social media powerhouse to rival giants like Facebook—or will it be gobbled up?
It’s easy to laugh at nonsense on Twitter, the microblogging rage. “My nose is leaking,” writes someone called Zapples, “so imma go to sleep now.…” But I’ve heard lots of similar drivel (and even produced some [...]

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Tags: social networking

Crystal Ball 2.0

March 18th, 2008 · No Comments

Crystal Ball 2.0 - Advertising Age
Power 150 Bloggers: Pay Attention to Web Video, Twitter, Facebook This Year
We asked the bloggers on the Power 150 blog-ranking index to tell us what technology marketers should be paying most attention to in 2008. Here’s what they said.
Tom Martin
Positive Disruption
With the cost of production and distribution of digital content [...]

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