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An interesting presentation about measuring the real ROI of social media thats been doing the rounds this week
links for 2009-11-14
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links for 2009-11-12
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As Rupert Murdoch talks about how he wants to cut off Google, it seemed like a good time to examine at least some of the sites that are owned by Rupert Murdoch that appear to aggregate content from other sites and which rely on the very same fair use argument.
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News Web sites are starting to look a lot less like newspapers and a lot more like television.
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Online gamers cut off – Thousands of gamers may have been cut off from Microsoft's online gaming service Xbox Live for modifying their consoles to play pirated games.
Online reports suggest that as many as 600,000 gamers may have been affected
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Playdom, has done its own massive deal: $43 million on a $260 million pre-money valuation. New Enterprise Associates, Rick Thompson, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Norwest Venture Partners invested in the round.
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Social Media Report. It’s alive.
Welcome to the Social Media Report blog. In true social media style, this blog was acquired by a search engine giant and subsequently went quiet. But it’s now back and will hopefully soon be back to its best.
Thank you, readers for your patience. Stay tuned.
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links for 2009-02-03
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"Digital marketing is among the few bright spots in the survey, with half the CEOs citing it as a growth area in 2009. Among North American CEOs, 62% said that they think digital will grow this year, while 39% of non-North American CEOs said the same."
links for 2009-01-31
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Online retailer ASOS.com does quite a nice integration with social networks and good spinny photos too
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links for 2009-01-30
links for 2009-01-29
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Offline Gmail has been launched.
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links for 2009-01-25
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A very Blist biased article on TechCrunch but it does say a fair bit about the web technology Obama's using
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Four reasons why shorter is better
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What it takes to do social media and GTD, Obama style
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The global Twitter power list
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On FriendFeed – this is what Robert Scoble will be covering, based on his audience's feedback
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links for 2009-01-23
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Social media feature in the FT, featuring Motrin, Cisco and Dell case studies
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Here is the full memo to employees from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (pictured here) about the 5,000 layoffs and other cost cuts just announced, due to economic slowdown, which also resulted in weak financial results for the second quarter.
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Hitwise reported that as of Tuesday, Twitter, the popular microblogging service, had for the first time surpassed the market share of visits of the hit content aggregation site, Digg.
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Much has been made of Ketchum vp James Andrews, who became an international embarrassment to Ketchum when he used his Twitter account to insult Memphis, the hometown of client Fedex, the morning before he was to meet with them there.
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links for 2008-11-17
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"The county court of Luebeck (North Germany) has issued an order in the name of Lutz Heilmann, Member of Parliament (left party/post-communist) that the German Wikipedia (Wikimedia e.V.) must not allow linking its domain wikipedia.de to the Web site wikipedia.org, as long as the German language version of wikipedia.org makes certain statements."
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"After Fast Company's Women in Web 2.0 article and the subsequent blog post that followed both ended up on Digg, I talked to Beth Murphy, the site's Director of Marketing and Communications, about Digg's culture, its problems and policies."
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"Facebook said on Friday it had removed several pages from its site used by Italian neo-Nazis to incite violence after European politicians accused the Internet social networking site of allowing a platform to racists."
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"We look at outrageously talented and successful people – the Beatles, Mozart, Rockefeller, Bill Gates – and assume there is such a thing as pure genius"
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