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Facebook Dislike Button is a Bad Idea

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In 2007, users rallied the company to drop the word “is&# from status updates , and Facebook responded. (It The group Petition for a Dislike Button has, as of this post, over 2.8 million members. Whether Facebook will respond remains to be seen, although there are precedents for this.

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HP’s Printing 2.0 Is Advantage Over Google

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I was at HP from 2004 to 2007 and one year I was fortunate enough to be a judge at the company’s OneVoice marketing awards. That’s right, in print. In book form. HP has a huge advantage over Google in an endeavor like this. The company knows how to print things.

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Is Facebook’s Social Graph Beacon 2.0?

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People may recall Facebook’s Beacon debacle , in late 2007. Facebook now knows a lot more about where people go when they are not actively on the company’s site, how long they spend there, and what they liked.

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Goldman Sachs Story Highlights Classic PR Blunder

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Blankfein, the bank’s chief executive, acknowledged in November 2007 that the firm had lost money initially. In email messages, “Lloyd C. But it later recovered by making negative bets, known as short positions, to profit as housing prices plummeted. ‘Of course we didn’t dodge the mortgage mess,’ he wrote. ’&#.

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At 10,000 Followers, Rethinking the Follower Thing

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When I signed up in June, 2007, Twitter, launched publicly in July, 2006, was less than a year old. When I was within a few hundred of 10,000, I offered a copy of my SocialCorp book to my 10,000th subscriber and a copy to a randomly selected person who tweeted about it, but by then I was certain to reach 10K any way.

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