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Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Is it only a matter of time until we do something ridiculously life saving but also incredibly invasive — like implant GPS tracking devices — so that we can never truly disappear? In extreme circumstances, the bottom line is that this privacy invasive RFID/GPS device can save your life. The comments are yours.

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The Marketing Moral Compass

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It is a question worthy of an answer. Ask yourself the right questions. Most marketers run afoul or try something that inevitably gets them into trouble, because they haven''t defined their moral compass of marketing and they have no bearings when presented with opportunities that could wind up messing with their cultural GPS.

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Approaching Strangers Through Foursquare

Ari Herzog

Using GPS chips embedded in your smartphone and latitude/longitude addresses, it is fairly easy for me to log into an app such as Foursquare , Loopt , or Google Latitude and (if your privacy settings allow me to) see who is proximate to my location. Ari Herzog is currently seeking a full time position in social media.

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Why Facebook and Twitter are Old News

Ari Herzog

As long as you have a mobile device with GPS identification and the ability to visit a website, you can play. Do you find less people asking questions about setting up and using Facebook pages and more questions around utilitarian technologies; perhaps ways to use Facebook through third-party systems? Thank you for reading!

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Repositioning Through Social Media: The Conan O’Brien-Case

Mindjumpers

This has so included: • Daily blogposts on his Team Coco-website spiced with a vibrant and effective comment system encouraging involvement among the readers. • A Twitter account as we described in our previous Conan-post , which is now close to 1.8 million followers and used for making huge public announcements like Conan’s deal with TBS. •

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Build Blog Products That Sell 6: Tell the World

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If you’re going to charge $329 for a three-page ebook, it had better contain the GPS coordinates for the Ark of the Covenant.) No, cost-conscious buyers—any discerning buyers, really—want to know the answer to the universal question: What’s in it for me? We’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments.

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Cats and Social Media: Purrfect!

Ari Herzog

Juli Monroe, commenting on my article the other day about dogs and social media , asked about networking with cats. Fair question, I thought, so I looked around — and UnitedCats and Catster seem to be two destinations feline lovers should visit. Sounds impressive. It also has outposts on Facebook and Twitter. Web-savvy users.