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Apple is Creating a “Social Network” the Right Way

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Today Apple did one of the most powerful things they have done since the launch of the iPod. Today Apple launched, quite simply , a “Social Network for Music&#. What’s so powerful is that they’re not really trying to create a social network at all. There’s nothing new about it.

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LinkedIn - A Newer Professional Social Network?

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Within that one hour flight, Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for over $26 billion dollars. If Facebook is our social network, is Microsoft now our professional social network? social media. Are we done with words? Think about that. App of the week: Flogg. Listen here. amazon echo. app of the week.

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Four Handy Windows Phone Apps

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It must be difficult for Microsoft. They have had to get used to playing second and even third fiddle in this thing called the Mobile Operating System competition. People were worried that Microsoft would be the evil monopolistic empire that they probably still aspire to be. Let Facebook try that! Blueprints.

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Facebook’s IPO: 5 Must-Reads

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But Facebook has many of the traits that made Apple, Microsoft, and Google great in the long run. Everything from mobile to ecommerce to pure research and development are ripe for investment, but the company can’t do everything at once. Facebook IPO Spawns New Wave Social-Media Angel Investors. .’s Facebook IPO?

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How Distributed Content Can Help Control Social Messaging

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While this may have been an unthinkable strategy for a small-to-medium-sized business a few months ago, Facebook and Apple recently opened their platforms to all publishers. It’s kind of like the social media version of the “telephone” game: the recipient gets a clearer message fewer iterations from the sender.

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The Year Of More

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More social. Social Media and online social networking has changed the very fabric of business and society. Along with the slew of customer service gaffs we've seen businesses go through in the past five years, this has forced brands to become (somewhat) social. apple television. networked appliances.

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Six degrees of separation in instant messaging | Emerging Technology Trends | ZDNet.com

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Get Emerging Tech via: Mobile. Categories: Computers & Internet , Social Sciences. According to Nature in ‘ Six degrees of messaging ,’ computer scientists at Microsoft Research Redmond lab have logged a full month of instant messengers using — logically — Microsoft Messenger. Newsletters.