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UK retailer Habitat recently made a misstep by hijacking hashtags to get their message seen. The practice is popular among spammers who use trending topic keywords in unrelated tweets to get their message in front of more people. For example, a search on one of today’s popular hashtags, HTC Hero - a new phone -  [...]

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Tonight, Twitter was featured on ABC World News with Charles Gibson. The piece talked about Comcast performing acts of customer service magic by watching the Web for signs of disgruntled customers and then acting as digital detectives to help solve those problems. The report went on to say how companies like Dell, JetBlue, Southwest Airlines [...]

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On June 26, 2008 decisions were made in Paris that will profoundly change how the Internet looks in the future. For marketers, it opens up a whole new world of possibilities and challenges.
ICANN, the international body that regulates domain naming, announced their unanimous vote to open up restrictions on top level domains (TLDs). Starting [...]

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Recently, TechCrunch and TechCrunch UK featured Phreadz, a new threaded social multimedia conversation network. Now that the cat is out of the bag, I’m pleased to say that I’ve been part of the “clandestine pre-alfalfa” testing on Phreadz for more than two-months.
Comparisons to Seesmic are inevitable because both services feature recorded video conversations. But there [...]

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I must admit that I was overwhelmed by the incredibly welcoming and supportive response that my first blog post brought. There were more than 50 comments left by an incredible array of heavy hitters from Twitter and the social media scene, people who were new to me who kindly took the time to reach out, [...]

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