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The rumored Twitter Blackberry app begins to see the light of day, while the LinkedIn BlackBerry app continues to languish.
’nuff said.
Want to read more of my complaints about LinkedIn bungling the launch of their BlackBerry App?
Still Waiting For Promised Social Media BlackBerry Applications In 2009
LinkedIn For BlackBerry Delayed to 2010
LinkedIn, Where’s Your BlackBerry App?

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I saw this poster on the bus into work the other day.  While I’ve seen plenty of posters before with Twitter handles on them before those follower requests were just one touch point in a larger campaign.  This is the first ad that I’ve seen where the only goal is to gain followers.

So my question [...]

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Last week Steve Rubel wrote about how Facebook was taking over the web and the following description of Facebook’s position in the social networking landscape caught my eye:
I believe Facebook is unstoppable. They aren’t just the next Google. They’re the next web….
Now history says I will be wrong. AOL tried this and lost. But AOL [...]

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And How To Find The Facebook Event Page
Last week on Lifehacker I stumbled upon a handy tip from Sean Bonner on  how to export your Facebook events into your Google calendar.

In Facebook, go to your EVENTS page.
At the top of that page click EXPORT EVENTS
You’ll get a pop up window with a URL, copy it.
In [...]

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The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project came out with a report yesterday on Social Media and Young Adults and immediately I began to see articles and Tweets about how Teens don’t blog or use Twitter. As the father of a teen I can tell you that if there is one thing [...]

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When Seesmic and Ping.fm merged last month they promised a new version of the application with Ping.fm features included.  Yesterday I checked in on how they were doing and lo and behold  a new version of Seesmic was released last month.  That is the good news.  The bad news is that unfortunately it does not [...]

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As part of Jack Morton Boston’s 2010 Kickoff today I’m giving a presentation about Brand Community and specifically social media.  The presentation is primarily a collection of inspiring creative and strategy from 2009 delivered in my typical fast and furious style.  So if you were there and missed something or are just interested, here are [...]

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I dabble with Lifestreaming, displaying activity from across multiple social media and networking site in one location, and have gone as far as to tweak a plugin to add a bunch of feeds and work just like I wanted, but it takes a lot of maintenance.  Currently my Lifestream page is down again and not [...]

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Last week saw the announcement of feature migrations from one social network to another.  First there is the the new retweet feature on Facebook called via.  With it you can repost a link posted by one of your friends to your own network.  Just like retweeting, this allows you to extend a link’s reach and [...]

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Last December I wrote about 3 BlackBerry social network applications that were expected by the end of 2009. They were Foursquare, Twitter and LinkedIn. This week the well done and extremely useful Foursquare BlackBerry app was released as a public beta and also a screen shot was released of the native Twitter app that [...]

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