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The 12 Startups I’ve Invested In and Why

Convince & Convert

It’s secure, mobile-friendly, super easy to use, and affordable. Addvocate.com the Breather mobile app Breather – Quiet on Demand Breather is the brain-child of the uber-smart Julien Smith. Huge trial under way right now with the NYC subway system to reduce the rat population in the tunnels.

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List of Brand-Side Corporate Social Strategists: Twitter Edition

Webbiquity SMM

Electronics, Devices, Mobile. • Jussi-Pekka Erkkola – Digital Marketing Manager at Nokia. • Marcy Cohen – Sr.

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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? Syndicating FourSquare to Twitter.

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What Twitter’s Rate Limit Changes Mean to You

Janet Fouts

When an application like Hootsuite, Tweetdeck or a mobile Twitter app like Tweetbot checks your account on Twitter, it’s what is called an “API Call” This does NOT include the number of messages you send through these tools, only the number of times the tool hits the Twitter server to check for more.

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Five Reasons Why I Love Wordpress

Firebelly

. | Main | Stop tweeting about the # of followers you have » October 23, 2009 Five Reasons Why I Love Wordpress WordPress was originally made as a blog publishing application but has now evolved into a huge content management system (CMS). These are what turn the basic blog program into a full content management system.

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Jake's Take: A Slew of Social Network Ideas

Firebelly

only allows for acertain number of users and uploads before it pushes you to their paid system. .   Ning, for example, announced last monththat it will be phasing out its free users, and Grou.ps  More importantly, people don’t typically just stumble upon thesenetworks and join them for fun. Having trouble reading this image?

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The Battle (and Blending) of Social and Search Rages On

Firebelly

Yahoo responded at its SearchSpeak event on Wednesday, saying they had incorporated social features into there email system over a year ago. Many in the blogosphere are calling it a "Facebook killer." They will copy the surface layer," said Larry Cornett, vice president of consumer products at Yahoo, on Google Buzz. View an alternate.

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