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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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Could the Survival of Facebook Depend on Its Privacy?

Waxing UnLyrical

Lots of reasons for that, put forward by people much smarterthan I, which you can easily read about via a Google search. Google had figured out how to be a profitable company before opening itself up to being controlled by people that have no idea what the company is about. Image: West McGowan via Flickr CC 2.0.

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50 Great Apps for Your iPad

Dave Fleet

GoodReader – Integrates with Google Docs, Dropbox, box.net and other services. Darkslide – Another iPhone app; good for uploading photos to Flickr and browsing your friends’ latest photos. iBooks – Apple’s e-reader app. Google Earth – Excellent port of the tool over to the iPad.

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PR and Change… On the Edge of Tomorrow

Waxing UnLyrical

I was at a meeting in Boston back in the 1980s, when an energetic young visionary paced the stage and talked excitedly about a new concept in computers… the Apple Macintosh. Image: NASA on The Commons via Flickr, CC 2.0. Twitter Google+ LinkedIn PR and Change… On the Edge of Tomorrow. ” Happy New Year, my friends.

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Twitter and Television: A Match Made In Heaven

Waxing UnLyrical

It feels like NBC is comparing apples to oranges. Image: David Ross via Flickr CC 2.0. Twitter Google+ Twitter and Television: A Match Made In Heaven. So, a hockey game being played at 5 p.m. in Sochi was airing at 8 a.m. in New York. Saturday and Sunday, you’d get some folks tuning in. Monday through Friday? Not so much.

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Starbucks – It’s Time to Brew Some Tweets

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: bfishadow via Flickr, CC 3.0 . According to an experiment conducted by Customer Service Investigator (CSI), well-known brands like Starbucks, Visa, Walmart, and Apple do not bother to respond to their customers on Twitter. Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Starbucks – It’s Time to Brew Some Tweets. reading and traveling.

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Google Apps – no more free sign-ups, no more Freemium

The Way of the Web

Six years ago, Google Apps launched with a great suite of tools which could be used for collaboration and work for free by anyone with less than 10 users. A year later, the paid premium versions became available, and now that’s all that will be available, as Google has now stopped new sign-ups to the free option.

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