the company says they have the problem under control but its probably just the first inning for facebook spam. bound to happen sooner or later.......
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interview with john hartman coffee and customer service good websites for news looking for a flip video camera leaves are turning brown try gotomeeting free for 30 days no cc needed gotomeeting.comtechpodcasts. get it certified careersaver.com special this week only 35 off with code geek08 8776542265 hotline 6082054378 geekazine at gmail.com download the show subscribe zune itune...
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mobile search and advertising startup jumptap has raised more than 26 million in a series d round led by alliancebernstein. existing investors general catalyst partners summerhill venture partners redpoint ventures valhalla partners and wpp also participated. that brings the total capital raised to 73 million. jumptap us going to need all the gunpowder it can get. mobile search is the next big ...
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back in april when it was reported google spends about 72 million 7530 per employee on feeding three meals a day to its employees from a robust chefinspired menu i wondered how long a public company with costconscious shareholders to answer to could keep up that kind of perk. four months later it looks like google is trimming back. read more more.........
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did you see the new york times positive coverage about web viewership of the olympics soaring well we beg to differ. nbc was going for the gold forgive us with all their online coverage of the olympics. they launched a brand new crossbrowser crossplatform and crossdevice plugin website to cover the olympics and unleashed more than 2000 hours of online video. but they didnt even qualify to compete...
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unknown as part of amds amd effort to streamline itself to better compete with rival intel intc the company will sell its tv chip business to broadcom brcm for 192.8 million. broadcom was named as a likely buyer of the tv chip business read more......
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on sunday i had an email alert about someone writing on my facebook walla college acquaintance with whom i hadnt spoken in quite some time. as it turns out i was a victim of wall spam a recent phenomenon on facebook in which automated spam posts show up on members message walls. its similar to a wave of profile spam that swept news corp.s myspace a few years ago. the message in question read some ...
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as ever in no particular order other than all this stuff either makes me chuckle or face palm. you decide which is which seattles monorail shut itself down on saturday trapping 200 passengers for a couple hours. a faulty switch was blamed. curt bramble evidently the majority leader of the utah state senate tried to pawn a personal check off on a pizza delivery girl. pizza girl blogs about it. now...
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el furor kindle sigue aumentando inexplicablemente gracias en parte por el apoyo sin condiciones de amazon claro. amazon esta planeando nuevas versiones del amazon kindle no ya una segunda versian si no que se podraa ver otra versian diferente seguramente mas barata pensada en exclusiva para las escuelas. no hablamos de un portatil como el xo si no un kindle para las escuelas de ee.uu. kindles co...
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in recent post entitled jason calacanis on how to get pr for your startup fire your pr company in silicon valley insider jason calacanis gives ten tips on how to do pr yourself be the brand be everywhere always pick up the check always be a human being bond with journalists learn how to email journalists learn how to speak to journalists invite people to swing by your office attach your brand to...
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surfing the web on a rainy sunday has produced these video links. alexandre gamela shares a bunch of video howto links that hes been collecting. lots of value there. announcing flickr slideshow. flickrs slideshow feature has added the ability to plop a video into the photostream and you can maybe embed the resulting show in another web site a nice way to show a portfolio. poynter online beta. poy...
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i am counting pentagrams tonight for fun at the nin show. john voelz coolfer dropping knowledge amazon.coms 25 sweet spot pierce the veil will be touring with breathe carolina four letter lie and emarosa starting oct 17. that new metallica single you were right when you said it sucked. howd we miss this walmart is cutting back on shelf space for cds. download my morning jacket aluminum p...
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its late august bank holiday weekend in the uk which often means traffic jams rock festivals iffy weather and maybe a strike. its all of that so a usual bank holiday experience so as im in the holiday spirit too and not writing much in this blog before tuesday im taking the opportunity to concisely wrap up some thoughts on a few things. enjoying blip.fm a new discovery courtesy of bernie goldba...
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it was going to happen sooner or later right or is it a fluke in other iphone news apple to drown world in iphones msn india apple makes iphone available in 22 more countries today ars technica apple plans to sell a lot of iphones next year. but how silicon alley insider apple will make 40 million iphones next year iphone buzz sharethis......
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despite big tv promotion prominent placement on msn and msnbc.com 211 affiliates cranking towards it and exclusive video nbcolympics.com isnt the top olympics news site that crown goes to yahoo. silicon alley insider quotes nielsen online data for the sites which shows from august 8 august 18 yahoo olympics beat nbc olympics for eight out of 11 days. in aggregate yahoo olympics edged nbco in a...
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how much did it cost for barack to send out his vp decision text message davidcho insert quippy closing sentence here. 12 million. by the first of this year obama had already spent 85 million. in june 2008 the campaign raised 52 million and is expected to raise and spend a grand total of 530 million from the start of his campaign to november 4. you know how much obama spent on tv ads in wiscon...
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amazon confirmed our speculation that they are planning to target colleges and universities with a new version of the kindle reports the seattle pi. textbooks are a 5.5 billion annual market and most publishers now offer electronic versions of their textbooks. mcgrawhill education for example publishes 95 of their books electronically as well as in print. but there is no compelling device to read ...
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umair haque facebook iphone app store facebook annabelle gawer micheal cusumano platform leadership app store facebook www facebook www app store dna facebook atomlize mediafacebook facebook googleaolgap......
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in an attempt to counter apples popular effective im a mac series of ads microsoft has apparently signed on jerry seinfeld reportedly for us10mn. it was first reported by the wall street journal citing sources close to the company meaning this story was leaked to them. was it from microsoft or from the agency insiders there is no way to tell. the blogosphere has gone to town with it. here is a br...
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youtube no time to think by dr david levy the use of the new technologies has contributed to an accelerated mode of working and living that leaves us less to think not more. pc gaming hits 10.7 billion in revenues worldwide digital distribution sales where gamers download a game over the internet to their computers approached 2 billion while ad revenues from websites portals and ingame ads acco...
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akamai a leading content distribution network saw its stock jump almost 6 percent to about 23.97 a share today leading to speculation by some blogs that the company might be takeover bait. prompting this talk is the companys market capitalization of around 4 billion. the whole fracas today is nothing more than a tempest in a teapot and i am not putting much credence to this talk. why first the st...
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im back from ses san jose. i wish i could have spent more time at the conference but alas work called and it wanted its one and only employee back. still i had a lot of fun and made some great new friendsand met with some great old friends too. if youve not had a chance check out the ses san jose photos i took. ok on to todays picks jason calacanis shares ten tips on how to do pr for your start...
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courtesy of jason calacanis by way of sai an extended screed on how to succeed via pr. its an entertaining read go check it out. one nugget my philosophy of pr is summed up in six words be amazing be everywhere be real. you dont need a pr firm you dont need an inhouse pr person and you dont need to spend any money to get amazing pr. you dont need to be connected and you dont need to be a n...
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