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Entries Tagged as 'social networks'

Why I won’t be signing up to Blippy…

February 8th, 2010 · Comments

A fair number of tech luminaries have been writing about Blippy recently – a new service which tracks your on and offline card purchases and shares them with followers. Not surpising with investors including Sequoia Capital, Jason Calacanis and Evan Williams. And Louis Gray has been publishing his experiences with the site.
I’m not averse to [...]

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Tags: social networks

Will customer service come to social media?

January 12th, 2010 · Comments

Despite the constant call for companies to engage in customer service via social media, it’s rare anyone points out that the people running the social platforms are generally a bit rubbish at servicing customers themselves…
John Batelle writes about the challenge Google faces with the Nexus One – in that it’s not a company geared for [...]

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Tags: 887 · customer service · social networks

Small rivers of content for a new discovery system

December 10th, 2009 · Comments

I don’t often get contacted with sponsored posts, and sadly when I do they’re generally about topics completely irrelevant to my writing – so being offered information about a new way to create networks of related content sounded too interesting to ignore. It’s called Small Rivers, a tool for bloggers to network content and [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Digital Publishing · social networks

FriendsReunited advert – wtf?

November 2nd, 2009 · Comments

I’m almost speechless.

Where to start?
So FriendsReunited is now owned by Brightsolid, a subsidiary of comic publisher DC Thompson, which paid £25 million in August but still hasn’t added the sites to the official website. (edit: This is due to the fact the purchase is being looked at by regulators, and is therefore not complete). And [...]

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Tags: Funny · social networks