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Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook and the Gang of Four

Convince & Convert

Eventually, they opened it up to the masses, and it made those tweaks, and in fact, I think it was two months ago Google finally made some APIs open. But if you want to be one of these great platforms, you have to talk about open APIs and software development kits. So you actually could, if you’re a developer, connect to them.

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Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook and the Gang of Four

Convince & Convert

Eventually, they opened it up to the masses, and it made those tweaks, and in fact, I think it was two months ago Google finally made some APIs open. But if you want to be one of these great platforms, you have to talk about open APIs and software development kits. So you actually could, if you’re a developer, connect to them.

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4 Reasons the Social Business Evolution Starts Now

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to be larger than email by 2012 doesn’t hurt, either. That’s been ExactTarget’s territory for a long time, and extending that concept of message-centric, platform-agnostic to social media is a natural fit. And the fact that Forrester Research projects social media spend in the U.S.

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