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A Brief History of the Evolution of Social Technology

Social Media Marketing

Used to rally demonstrators, Facebook postings, mobile phone images and SMS messaging played a huge role in organizing a thus-far loose-knit regime opposition. Photo credit: Kaptain Kobold (Flickr). Case Study: Egypt and Tunisia Mobile devices in conjunction with social media are also credited with influencing national politics.

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Intro to Foursquare, Brightkite & Location-Based Social Media

Socialized

With triangulation, the software can identify three known locations, and determine your position within a triangle described by these three points. you tap “Check-in” and the software tries to locate you. Foursquare is available for iPhone and Android , and can also be managed via SMS. Location is a very social attribute.

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Five Benefits to Using Twitter Â? Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

When email is unavailable, there’s almost always SMS. If you have a software application and people follow your product, by all means, set up a Twitter feed and let your users subscribe! Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca Twitter can indeed satisfy many goals.

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Five Reasons Why I Love Wordpress

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Plugins are extensions that add additional functions to the basic WordPress software. For example, check out the very popular site colourlovers. This site runs WordPress and is not just a blog. These are what turn the basic blog program into a full content management system. Plugins can extend WordPress to do almost anything you can imagine.

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Why I Rarely Answer My Phone | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

I have on average, 8-10 different software applications that I run concurrently. Photo Credit: Mute by woodlywonderworks on Flickr. And when we had our little earthquake here a few years back, phone did not work tho SMS did! It is not a casual exercise. It could take days to get a response. Dollars and attention in the mix.

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

Convince & Convert

After Google Voice and its third-party apps were turned down by Apple due to “it duplicating features that the iPhone comes with (Dialer, SMS, etc),&# Google built a completely browser-based app , avoiding the restrictions and not having to split the profits. How many developers have the liquidity to host their own software?

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Is Social Media the Final Frontier of Marketing?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Through bad reviews, forums, and a threat of a class action suit organized through a website, HTC listened and now the consumers got what they wanted – a software update is promised for the end of March. People will share content on mobile devices through IR/SMS/email. Again, by no means is this new.