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Rank number one in Google in five minutes?  Must be black hat, right? Wrong.
Many marketers and small business owners still fail to understand the marketing impact Twitter can have on a business.  Twitter isn’t only read by other Twitter junkies, it shows up in Google too.  And, in some cases it can be used [...]

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For businesses just starting out with inbound marketing, we often advise to dip a toe in by starting out with just one component (e.g. blogging, social media, video) before trying out another.  So when we come across a company that does it all right from the get-go, needless to say, we’re impressed.
Last month, we launched [...]

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Remember when you were a kid and your creative spirit was the essence of your life?  Although we’re much more stifled by responsibility as adults than we were as children, the human will to create still exists in all of us.  Adults are constantly applying their creativity to many things — art, music, movies, and [...]

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It has been found that there are now over 5 billion mobile phones worldwide.
According to Ericsson this landmark was reached on last Thursday the 8th of July.
According to mobile phone analyst Ben Wood of CCS Insight, the mobile phone is probably ‘the most prolific consumer device on the planet’.
At 5 billion there are [...]

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Twitter has just confirmed on their engineering blog that they are using the realtime analytics system Cassandra.
For some time now, it had been indicated that Twitter would change their system for storage of tweets from the current Mysql to Cassandra. However they have now made it clear that they will continue to store tweets on [...]

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Nielsen has recently released the findings of their study about the use of social networks in the Asia Pacific region.
As may be expected, the use of social media is growing in popularity in that region.
In the entire Asia pacific region, social media has started affecting the buying decisions of users in a significant manner.
Online [...]

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Lady Gaga is the first living person to reach the landmark of having 10 million fans on Facebook. As of the 5th of July 2010, she had 10,673,476 fans on Facebook, while the former leader, Barack Obama had 9,824,885 fans at that time.

The popular singer now has 11,109,469 fans, while the U.S. President has also [...]

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The recently released Sponsored Trending Topics feature by Twitter seems to be doing quite well. Some well known brands have already attached themselves to this feature, and the latest to do so is the NBA.
In order to promote themselves through this feature, the NBA has used the term ‘LeBron James’.
When users click on the player’s [...]

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While Google and Microsoft have been trying hard to dominate the mobile market by launching their own handsets, their competitor Yahoo! has refrained from treading down that path.
Yahoo’s senior Vice President David Ko says that according to him the best way to increase the mobile business is through mobile ads, apps and partnerships.
He says that [...]

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It has been found that there are now over 5 billion mobile phones worldwide.
According to Ericsson this landmark was reached on last Thursday the 8th of July.
According to mobile phone analyst Ben Wood of CCS Insight, the mobile phone is probably ‘the most prolific consumer device on the planet’.
At 5 billion there are [...]

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