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Reputation Management Isn’t Just About Playing Defense
Posted on01. Sep, 2010 by admin.
Pushing your brand’s message through social media as proven to be an effective strategy for plenty of businesses. That said, it has also proven to be a way for disgruntled customers to voice their disdain for brands and products, and spread that disdain virally throughout their social circles. Businesses are often quick to step in [...]
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MySpace Confirms Departure of Co-president Jason Hirschhorn
Michael Arrington at TechCrunch let a cat out of MySpace’s bag a little early, revealing that the company would announce the departure of co-president Jason Hirschhorn tomorrow. A representative for MySpace just sent us the following statement from News Corp. Chief Digital Officer Jon Miller on the matter: We fully respect Jason’s decision to leave [...]
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Apple Announces New iOS, iPods, iTunes, Ping Social Network, Apple TV
Apple held its big event today, and showed off several things. At the event, Steve Jobs said that Apple now has 300 retail stores, and will soon open one in Spain making it 11 countries. He said that Apple has shipped 120 million iOS devices, and that there are 230,000 new iOS activations per day. [...]
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Online Daters Mostly Truthful
Posted on28. Aug, 2010 by admin.
People who lie on online dating services are likely people-pleasers who want to present themselves favorably, just as they would in person, according to new research from the University of Kansas. Jeffery Hall, assistant professor of communications studies, surveyed more than 5,000 participants who used Internet dating services to find out what kinds of people [...]
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Google Exits Conference Due To Oracle Suit
Organizers of the JavaOne and Oracle Develop conference may be fielding more than a few emails and phone calls about refunds this afternoon. Google, which was supposed to have a significant presence at the event, backed out today due to the lawsuit Oracle brought against it. Joshua Bloch, Google’s chief Java architect, wrote on the [...]
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The Top Ten U.S. Web Properties
comScore released its monthly Media Metrix top 50 revealing the top 50 U.S. web properties. Here are the top ten: 1. Google sites 2. Yahoo Sites 3. Microsoft sites 4. Facebook.com 5. AOL 6. Glam Media 7. Ask Network (IAC perhaps?) 8. Turner Network 9. Fox Interactive Media 10. Amazon Sites Google has acquired Angstro, [...]
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Older Adults Embracing Twitter And Social Media
Social networking use among Internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled from 22 percent in April 2009 to 42 percent in May 2010, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Social networking use among Internet users ages 50-64 grew by 88 percent over the past year, from 25 [...]
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Dell To Pick Up 3PAR For $1.8 Billion
Updatre: Following the below news, HP and Dell got into a bidding war for 3PAR, but according to TechCrunch, 3PAR has accepted the latest offfer from Dell for $27 per share in cash, or approximately $1.8 billion. Original Article: Dell announced that it is acquiring virtualized storage solutions provider 3PAR for $1.15 billion. Dell says the acquisition [...]
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Google Wave Turns One
Exactly one year ago today, a product that was supposed to represent a new and innovative means of communication debuted at Google I/O. Now, Google’s celebrating Wave’s first birthday by trying to convince a few more people to give the tech a chance. That observation isn’t necessarily meant to slight Google Wave or the team [...]
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Matt Cutts: Google Probably Won’t Call PageRank Something Else
Posted on25. Aug, 2010 by admin.
Update: Matt Cutts says they probably won’t rename PageRank. However, he agrees with Peter Norvig that people obsess about it too much. Original article: Last year, Google quietly got rid of PageRank in Webmaster Tools. Google Webmaster Trends Analyst Susan Moskwa had said, "We’ve been telling people for a long time that they shouldn’t focus on [...]
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eBay Plans End To Third-Party Checkout Solutions
In the not-particularly-near future, eBay’s checkout process will become a simpler affair. The company announced today that it intends to stop supporting third-party checkout solutions on June 30th of next year. This seems like a wise move for several reasons. For starters, it will grant eBay more complete control over its site, and search boxes [...]
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- scambaiter turns the tables on Love Scammers
- Scammers get scammed by Scambaiters www.idtheftsecurity.com
- More eBAY fraud.
- eBay Fraud Auction
- EBAY fraud abuses (Video10)
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