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A Blog is a Better Social Media Hub Than Twitter

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Twitter is excellent for distribution , but if you’re going to communicate original ideas, you’ll need a blog (or something similar). They are most often using Twitter as a super-news-feed, and as a way to drive people back to their blog, web site, etc. A blog is less dominated by spam than Twitter.

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Switching to Impulse: Social Media Gets Faster

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And the iPhone 3GS and Posterous represent the latest advances in real time communications. Sharing short clips *fast* is threshold feature… Was just talking w/someone who said his Flip was going to stay in the drawer w/advent of iPhone 3GS - impulse video is key.&#. The iPhone 3GS has solved the video problem.

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Twitter Blocking Recurring Tweets in Realtime

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I was using Tweetie , an iPhone Twitter client. In case you’re wondering why I would republish the same tweet, I generally promote new blog posts three to four times over the course of a few days, hoping to catch different people each time. I copied and pasted a previous tweet and tapped “Send.&#

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Five Social Media Predictions for 2010

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It took a lot of hacking and ingenuity to make these a reality since most consumer platforms lagged (but not by much) in features (think video finally coming to the iPhone) required for AR. Most AR applications in 2009 were quaint curiosities designed to demonstrate the AR concept.

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McLuhan, Socrates and Edith Wharton On Social Media

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McLuhan clearly foresaw the whole phenomenon of blogging, Twitter and Facebook status updates. The value to a brand of a social media presence, whether through a corporate blog, Facebook page or Twitter account, is hard to dispute, but equally hard to measure. And all but one of them are dead. Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.”

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What Do They Mean by Social Any Way?

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Facebook offers status updates 420 characters in length, easy sharing of links, videos and images; commenting, tagging, a one-click “Like” button, blog networking to display personal and business blog updates on Facebook, connections to Twitter and other social networks, and so on. Often, attempts to make a site more social, fail.

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Baskin Robbins Sells 31-Cent Scoops With Smart Social Media

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Is there an iPhone app for finding the closest store AND checking the availability of your favorite flavor? There’s much more going on here than I can discuss in a single blog post. Andrew : We received hundreds of @replies throughout the day. Joel : What’s next for BR in social media? Or voting on flavors?