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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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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #122

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This sets up the battle of the next decade: Apple , that wants great content in order to sell devices; Amazon that wants great devices in order to sell content. Looming in the wings is Facebook - and lest we think things are done, don't forget that 5 years ago it was MySpace and Yahoo fighting for top slot in the world. the book oven.

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After two-and-a-half years, iPhone app developers are getting fed up with Apple’s lengthy and often inconsistent approval process. may not seem like much, but the fact that Apple is taking 30% of all app profits has stirred some unrest. Also, $0.30 The approval process for apps is a black hole,” says Tom Conlon of Popular Science.

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For every vote you cast for the keynote at South by Southwest featuring me and Amber Naslund , we’ll donate $1 of our book advance to Make-A-Wish Foundation ®. We’ll have Facebook page and other promotional stuff about the book online soon – including pre-ordering capabilities. “ Your Content Stinks!

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

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Once online, it caught the attention of executives at Apple who flew him into California to make it a commercial reality. Kirtsy Likaholix LinkedIn Mahalo Mento Mixx MyBlogLog MySpace Plurk Pownce Propeller Reddit SEOmoz Sphinn StumbleUpon Technorati Toluu Twitter Wikipedia Yahoo! Answers Yahoo!

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Phil, your new book, which I love, love, love is called – here it is right here The Age of the Platform. So you put those two things together, and the fact that I don’t sleep and type really fast and have a lot of opinions, and voila, another book. That’s a really interesting way to go about a book project.

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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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Or will they overthrow the computational and communicational status quo with MySpace, MyBlog, and MyWiki?â?? I think this book is one of the best treatments of how to empower knowledge workers and it covers what knowledge management should be. He expressed some of his same concerns about blogs in the book (p.108) Book Review.