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Review: LinkedIn for BlackBerry

Earlier this week, three months after their promised delivery date and a week after a third party developer launched their own BlackBerry application, LinkedIn, the dominant professional online social network, finally launched their first application for the BlackBerry, the dominant smartphone for businesses. In other words it was about damn time and LinkedIn seemed forced [...]

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The Seder, Four Children and Social Networks

Monday night during our Passover Seder meal, discussion turned to social networks and what several of us at the table were doing online. There was some excitement (from a friend who just started twittering), some guilt (from a friend who thought it would help her business, but felt it was too much work), some denial [...]

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Who Is A Twitter User?

The SXSW keynote interview of Twitter’s Evan Williams by Umair Haque may have been a bore, but it did highlight some interesting aspects of what Twitter is and how it is used. Twitter is an interesting application precisely because it is not one.  Rather than setting up how to use the service, Twitter has watched [...]

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It Takes a Villiage To Design An Avatar

Earlier this month I asked whether I should change my Twitter avatar because I’d unconsciously created multiple icons for myself, a little yellow Ganesh that stuck out nicely in a tweet stream, and my glasses on a blue background that you see here on my blog.  The poll results were inconclusive.  While keeping the ganesh [...]

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Review: Social Business Communicator

I’ve written a lot about the lack of a LinkedIn application for the BlackBerry and specifically LinkedIn’s missed deadline for releasing the application.  I mean I’ve written a lot.  Maybe I’m obsessed.  Anyway it’s reached a state in the BlackBerry community that people are taking things into their own hands.  Jason Remillard (who is not [...]

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What Does Social Media Failure Look Like?

The following is my post last week on the Jack360 blog: One of the most interesting questions that I’ve heard so far in my couple days at South by Southwest this week was asked by a presenter himself. The question was “What does social media failure look like?” Responses ranged from the Motrin Moms fiasco [...]

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Tweeture Toys With Twitter

While at South by Southwest this week I met a little gray and green critter named Tweeture.  He’s the brainchild of The Umbrella Group and is an alien robot monster attending SXSW and being baby sat by other attendees.  If they treat him nice he tweets them nice and if they don’t he get’s grumpy.  [...]

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The Life Graph: You Are Your Location

The following is a liveblog of a panel discussion with Ryan Sarver,  Sam Altman, Tina q Unterlaender, Clara Shih and Steve Lee on geolocation, social networks, privacy and monitization.  The panel was excellent with great back and forth, insight into issues around geolocation and social networks and the future of this functionality.  The panel took [...]

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How Social Media Can Destroy Your Business Model

The following is a live blog of a presentation by Kami Huyse and Anjuan Simmons on the impact, opportunities and best practices for management of social media in businesses.  The presentation and discussion took place on Sunday March 14, 2010 at South by Southwest.  The room where the presentation was held was packed and there [...]

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No LinkedIn BlackBerry App Launch for SXSW

It’s March 12, the first day of South by Southwest interactive when the social media digerati come together in Austin Texas and mobile sites and apps are launched or touched up with new features in order to take advantage of the opportunity.  But there is one social network who is bucking the trend and going [...]

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