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Apple Gets More Serious About Using Twitter, but Why it Doesn't Matter

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

First, I’m going to say kudos to Apple for trying involve themselves in the world of social media. Let’s envision this scenario: a user has a support issue about an Apple product. Apple has no such protocol in place, and at this point, there is no engagement. I’m going to stop there, though. No acknowledgment.

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The Story of Ignite Social Media, The Original Social Media Agency

Ignite Social Media

This was 2006, just after Twitter had launched, but the world didn’t yet know Tumblr, Pinterest, or Instagram. These were big clients, like Nature Made, Microsoft, Intel, and more. Currently, Facebook and Apple are fighting over data tracking in iOS14 and Google is getting ready to block all third-party cookies from Chrome.

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Six degrees of separation in instant messaging | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com

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According to Nature in ‘ Six degrees of messaging ,’ computer scientists at Microsoft Research Redmond lab have logged a full month of instant messengers using — logically — Microsoft Messenger. The dataset which was collected in June 2006 contains summaries of 30 billion conversations among 240 million people.

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Tools do not a master make [redux]

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Re-printed below is a post of mine from August 2006, Tools do not a master make , that explores a similar theme. = = == ==. No tool of modern technology is as universally used, and almost as universally reviled, in the world of business and government as is Microsoft PowerPoint. — Apple - iLife - Garageband.

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The FASTForward Blog " Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation? : Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary

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December 2006. Microsoft Links. Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog. January 2008. December 2007. November 2007. October 2007. September 2007. August 2007. April 2007. March 2007. February 2007. January 2007. Contributor Archives. Charles Armstrong. Jon Husband. Jevon MacDonald. Joe McKendrick. Sean McClowry. Rob Paterson.

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Testing the Limits of Branding: What It Can Fix and What It Can’t

Convince & Convert

Industry Disruption With Apple Good branding can grant you pole position in the marketplace from the outset, and provide a strong platform for redefining the industry you’re entering. Shoe brand TOMS launched in 2006 and popularized the buy-one-give-one model, famously donating a pair of shoes for every pair they sold.

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Twitter, Facebook, Denial of Service Attacks

Bare Feet Studios

These large sites ( Google, Apple, Yahoo, Microsoft ) have complex back end programming that make the site run as expected as well as front end programming to control the incoming traffic and direct it to available servers, known as load balancing. Large popular sites are typically the victim.

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