May 2009
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“The French government is planning to create a digital police unit to shut down...”
– France creates digital police force (via annielin)
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9 ways to improve your writing →
darkdippy:
(from Wright Creativity.)
1. Write more often. It doesn’t have to be perfect, but the more you write (tweet, facebook updates, emails, blog notes) the easier it will be to sit down and write.
2. Read a lot of other writers. Everyone has a different style of writing, and while you need to develop your own, reading someone else can help you to find your own voice.
3. Get a...
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SA Twitter baby makes history by trending on... →
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15/05/2009 15:34 - (SA)
Cape Town - Newborn Cape Town baby Max may be just a few hours old, but he already has a record number of fans on Twitter, a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read other users’ updates known as tweets.
Max’s mother is Tertia Albertyn, a South African who got famous for blogging about her battle with...
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“Culture wars are so ’90s.”
– Barack Obama to Planned Parenthood, 2007 (via peterfeld) (via soupsoup) (via tjpytheas)
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Watchgary:
Communication in 2009 In a day and age were we can monitor personal and consumer brands there is no excuse to not engage in respective debate. Watch this video to see a real live example off what happened to me today.
Having trouble viewing this video? Try the Quicktime version.
Gabe Kangas on Twitter
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Breaking: Most Web Companies FAILb →
mashable:
Blogger and social media specialist Meg Pickard posted an image to Flickr this week showing how many “Web 2.0″ era companies have failed to date. The image takes a popular representation of…
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Repeets Tracks Twitter’s Hottest Retweets →
mashable:
A new service launching today adds more momentum to the growing “retweets” movement. Retweeting, as we covered in our article HOW TO: Retweet on Twitter, is becoming an important way to…
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Watchtryingtofollow:
Super creative ad campaign about landmines. Picture yourself living with the dangerous threat of stepping on a landmine at any time. The campaign is already finished but the video tells the story.
♥ P.S. Don’t forget to Vote!
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HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Twitter #Hashtags →
mashable:
One of the most complex features of Twitter for new users to understand is the hashtag, a topic with a hash symbol (”#”) at the start to identify it. Twitter hashtags like #followfriday help…
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Facebook’s Tolerance of Holocaust Denial Cannot... →
mashable:
Attorney Brian Cuban, brother to Dallas Mavericks owner and entrepreneur Mark Cuban, has published an open letter to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg demanding the removal of Holocaust denial…
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5 Tips To Build A SEO-Friendly Web Design →
darkdippy:
A good Web Design with no search engine exposure will not benefit your business. SEO or search engine optimization is the bed rock of online marketing. The purpose of your website is an online marketing brochure that sells your product or service. But in order for your website to deliver the results, you must drive targeted traffic to your website. And the best way to get targeted...
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The New York Times, 31 Years From Now →
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…will look like the image below (after the jump), if you believe their own ad that opens up and covers the entire web page of NYtimes.com when you first visit it.
It’s actually an ad…
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Startup to run online test of 30-second,... →
(via annielin)
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Obama Auto Task Force Halves Chrysler's Marketing... →
Task Force Agrees Automaker Needs Advertising — Just Not $134 Million Worth
By Jean Halliday Published: May 11, 2009
DETROIT (AdAge.com) — Chrysler wanted to spend $134 million in advertising over the nine weeks it’s expected to be in bankruptcy — the U.S. Treasury’s auto-industry task force gave it half that.
So if GM, which is wrestling with the possibility of a...
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Tweet Street: 7 Extraordinary Twitter Uses in the... →
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The Twittering Towns series is supported by the Comcast Town Contest. Create your own Comcast Town apartment by May 14 for an opportunity to win a prize worth up to $30,000, including a…
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Depeche Mode lets iPhone fans remix new album →
(via annielin)
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More iLike for iPhone, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube,... →
mashable:
iLike, one of the 5 essential tools for marketing your band, is already great at helping artists create a single page that can reach their fans almost anywhere online, and help them…
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fred-wilson:
Arrangements of Shapes and Space -...
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I Am Unique: Create Your 3D Social Avatar →
mashable:
The best way to see if something works or not is to try it out for yourself. FOXTEL Australia has sent us an email about their new website, called I Am Unique, which lets users create…
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Watchctrlclick:
WOW! really inspiring talk. Must watch * * * * *
Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so.
link: Seth Godin on the tribes we lead
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Social Network Ad Spending to Fall, But It’s Not... →
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According to eMarketer’s latest research, US social network ad spending will fall 3% in 2009. If it happens, it’ll be a big change from previous couple of years; in 2007., social network ad…
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RIP Internet Explorer: 1995-2021 →
mashable:
Some of us in the web community really wish Internet Explorer would die. It makes web designers’ lives a pain, and it makes users’ computers less secure. So you might be glad to know that…
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