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How Companies Use Twitter to Bolster Their Brands

September 18th, 2008

Creepy or compelling,  Twitter allows companies to keep close tabs on users.  But how the h$%* do you do it right?

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Article excerpt:  Microblogging lets an airline, for instance, monitor customers’ gripes—and tweet back. Is this a creepy trend?  When Jonathan Fields spotted William Shatner waiting to board a JetBlue flight at New York’s JFK [...]

Jumpstarting the Mobile Internet

May 19th, 2008

Phones are primarily communication devices. So is social networking. Will the combination of the two finally make mobile internet explode in the US?

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Article excerpt: Is social networking the key? Mobile social networking stands a good chance of jumpstarting mobile Internet adoption because mobile social networking is based more on communication than content. Time and [...]