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The CIA is Watching Your Every Tweet

Freelance Social Media

“It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in the flood of TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports generated every day.&#

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Community Bootstrapping: Tools & Strategies To Build A Community.

Jason Yormark

Actively pursue users, followers and engage in conversations, even if it doesn’t directly relate to your product or service. Step 2: Build Your Home Base I have practically made a living utilizing open source software to fulfill all my web needs. And it’s not just about creating a Facebook page or a Twitter account.

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Facebook vs Twitter (A Comparison)

The Marketing Blog

The only other place where Facebook scores over Twitter is on the Disqus platform but there also it is a close fight b/w the two. apps and products if I am convinced about their value aspect to me & my ecosystem. On other platforms like Youtube, Friendfeed and WordPress ‘Twitter’ dominates.

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The two ‘gadget’ purchases I need to make in 2011

The Way of the Web

So the Consumer Electronics Show has taken place for another year, with masses of coverage on all the new products and trends which manufacturers believe will shape out gadget buying for the next couple of years. So I’ll need all the support and encouragement I can get!

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Social Media Marketing Without Brand Awareness Can Kill You.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Study the demographics and know who will be researching your products. Kn ow your social media source’s demographics. Find out where they are advertising their products. From looking at the software development world: an open source product can benefit from ongoing enhanced security. Answers Yahoo!

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Google Wave fails to cause a splash

The Way of the Web

We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners: Google has so many wonderful tools, Alerts and Docs just to name a couple. Love Chrome.

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Open Software – from watches to newspapers

The Way of the Web

Open Software – from watches to newspapers July 5th, 2010 · View Comments One of the most interesting trends of recent years has been the way that increasing openness has been embraced by a growing number of proprietary business who realise that they probably can’t come up with all the great ideas for a product.