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Our Shifting Notion of Search, Social and Mobile.

Direct Marketing Observations

10 years ago seems so 10 years ago in the world of search, social and mobile. Take for example search. In 2000 Google was a 2 year old start-up still trying to create an identity and compete with Yahoo and MSN. Looking back at MySpace, it almost looks like pre-Y2k web Dev. Social networks are not what they used to be.

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Six Links Worthy Of Your Attention #122

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"In an interesting example of quantified self and new interfaces, the Ibis hotel is using bed sensors and robot arms to paint pictures of your sleep patterns. Amazon in talks to buy TI mobile chip arm: paper - Reuters. " (Alistair for Hugh). " (Hugh for Alistair). alistair croll. bitcurrent. blackberry. eric schmidt.

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6 Lessons Learned From the Demise of MySpace | facebook | Social.

Convince & Convert

MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). MySpace used to be Janet, and now it’s LaToya – at best. MySpace used to be Janet, and now it’s LaToya – at best. But back to MySpace.

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cybersoc.com: 3 types of blog: closed, conduit and participant in the conversation

Buzz Marketing for Technology

See, for example, the Aitkens wedding blog. See, for example, the H5N1 blog or SCOTUS blog. Take, for example, the BBC Editors blog ([link] where there are over a dozen authors yet one personality comes through: people who are passionate about news and feel strongly that the editorial decisions they make are based on sound reasoning.

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Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2009

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

The article has examples of how social media worked too. The Poetry of Social Networking to Court Customers and Invest in Relationships (Brian Solis): Brian Solis shares his foreword to Sean Percival’s book, MySpace Marketing. But if you’re a website creator, have you optimized for mobile search?

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What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

By that I mean not only the social voting sites like Digg, Reddit, etc, but also on the social networks (Facebook, MySpace, etc), social communication tools (Twitter, Pownce, Seesmic, etc.), For example, what plays well on Digg versus what plays well on Propeller. Creating sites on Facebook and MySpace are not either.

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

Convince & Convert

Taxi Mike is Here to Help During my recent vacation in Canada, I stumbled upon a fantastic example of marketing via helpfulness, from Taxi Mike in Banff, Alberta. It’s Coffee In another example of Canadian excellence in creating marketing success through helpfulness, a Starbucks in Richmond, B.C. It’s a Bird.