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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I asked two questions, and here are their answers: How Young is Too Young? Before that, you have to dictate it to someone else I did some research with LMU (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany) back in 2005, about older people and modern technology and new forms of learning. He also tweets regularly.

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Any company employing such an incentive program is certainly not participating in anything that is manipulative, questionable, or immoral in nature. Based on what I have read on the Cruise Critic boards, I don’t think the RC’s knew they were part of a viral marketing program until the recent articles in question came out.

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Advice for a New Internet Marketer (or How to Spot Internet.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

. “I am a relatively new internet marketer trying to break into the industry,&# he wrote. Overall, the questions were basic and I worried that the individual was looking to target companies for clients before actually understanding the nuances of the culture of Internet marketing as a whole. Should I learn a specific skillset?&#

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Fifteen Years of Online Social Interactions

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

I was recently cleaning out a cabinet in my apartment and tossed out a 2005 Yellow Pages that was in pristine condition. Today, search engines answer the questions that phone books needed to solve a decade and a half ago. Fifteen years ago, the Yellow Pages in our house was torn and tattered from frequent use.

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In Memory of My Grandpa David, a Wonderful Man » Techipedia.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here are just some of those contributions: While I got married in March of 2005 (this photo was taken at our wedding), we delayed our honeymoon until December 2006. My grandparents are snowbirds: they reside in Florida (near my folks) for half of the year and in New York (where our family originally hails from) for the other half.

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The Future of Blogging: I Had to Tell You This

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Though both sites have been around since 2005, TechCrunch quickly established itself as the industry leader, with founder Michael Arrington’s personal rants and opinions gaining attention around Silicon Valley and beyond. Digg was the biggest social news site on the web and everyone wanted to be on their homepage.

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An Open Letter to Facebook

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

But with 400 million users and some big brands on board, there ought to be a way to get some answers to the standard info-security questions that large, regulated corporations have. I’ve never seen that before… I wonder how many security questions still need answering. One question I have is in regards to contests.

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