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Laying Off Microsoft

Jason Yormark

Another reason was my growing love of competing technologies and less favorable opinions of the home brew. This isn’t a knock on Microsoft, I just find myself more drawn to competing products. Share this on Reddit. I gave it the ‘ol college try, but after 10 months, I was checked out and ready to move on.

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Why Customer Service Should Be in Your Social Media Marketing Strategy

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

We have embarassing pictures in Google Maps , videos about the death of an innocent man in the hands of a “competent&# cop , and even Yelp reviews that can damage your personal reputation , never mind your business. Everything today can be turned into a public spectacle that can make or break you. Answers Yahoo!

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How Young is Too Young?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Reply Nicole Dominguez June 10, 2010 at 10:05 am As a young blogger myself, I find it hard to compete with those adults that are older than me. 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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How to conduct smarter social listening for consumer brands

Sprout Social

For example, comparing follower counts between two brands is often apples and oranges when engagement rate is what’s more relevant. Beyond your own mentions, consider how conversations on platforms like Reddit can highlight the specific needs of customers that you or your competition might not be aware of.

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Report Ranks Reputation and Exposure of Brands Across News and Social Media

Bill Hartzer

In the 4th Quarter, Sony announced the launch of its new online store, Sony Online Services, which sells videos, books, games and movies to compete against Apple’s iTunes store. APPLE $293,237,918. This December saw rumors of Apple’s latest high-tech gadget, the tablet computer, planned for a roll out in early 2010.

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Google: The search party is not over

Idaconcpts

The author, Michael Copeland, makes several valid points in his article, which was primarily written to explain why Google's stock has significantly trailed the Nasdaq and Apple. Google Buzz was a complete failure and there's a slim chance that Google even has a shot at competing with Facebook with the rumored Google Me. Absolutely.

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Data Mining: The Ultimate Guide to Niche Analysis

Viper Chill

I ran the social news site Reddit through the tool as an example and I’m told that around 55% of visitors are male (though I expect this to be a little lower than reality) and 24% of the audience are over 50 years old. Below is Quantcast’s estimation as to which sites people visit after Reddit. Compete Details.