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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

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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No, You Can't Automate Social Media!

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Your comparison is apples to oranges. Again, apples and oranges. In the same line, I really think that automated anything (sentiment, response, analysis) is a wrong paradigm for social. Sentiment is really hard to analyze. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca

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How to Become a Niche Rockstar: The Guide

Viper Chill

No matter how much of an Apple fan boy you are, you likely wouldn’t mind a young group of impoverished kids in India making the next big thing in the smartphone space. After speaking to a number of far more successful people than I am, it turns out I’m not alone with that sentiment. You are already naked.

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The Unfortunate Investment of Social Media (and its Consequences)

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It’s clear that anti-Digg sentiment is silenced, and is often suppressed. Reply BrettFromTibet February 2, 2008 at 4:20 pm I knew the shark had been jumped when they made Microsoft their ad partner and displayed crappy banners for M$ products alongside stories about Ubuntu’s domination and Apple’s PWNing.

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The Audacity of Free: The Products and Services Edition

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Yet the sentiment is true — writing, especially long form, is hard work, and the work doesn’t end when the words are completed. On the other hand, in Internet Marketing, you sure can, so I wonder if it’s an apples-to-oranges comparison. I may badly paraphrase and source the quote. Probably not.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Sentiment: How much are you willing to automate verse check by hand? First: your analysis would have been better had you added the caveat that your list is strictly your opinion and not a formal methodology that allowed a true apples to apples comparison. In other words, how accurate does it need to be? Im Jay Baer.

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3 Ways Facebook is Killing Your Website | Social Media Marketing.

Convince & Convert

I have actually heard this exact sentiment from several companies and agencies recently, wondering whether they should increase their Facebook efforts because the size of the member community is just so overwhelming. Despite their size you would have to think that a Google, Apple or Microsoft could still buy them without blinking.