Tag Archive | "facebook"
November 14, 2008 by
Lisa Whelan |
Mobile,
Social Media
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Apple Apple is now the #2 smartphone manufacturer. Nokia remains #1, RIM is now#3, and Motorola is #4. More here. The iPhone surpassed the Motorola Razr as the top selling consumer phone. Facebook TechCrunch reports that Facebook violated its own privacy policy to give Microsoft access to user emails: “Microsoft’s Invite2Messenger appears to violate that [...]
November 7, 2008 by
Lisa Whelan |
Mobile,
Social Media
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AOL: AOL announced its earnings this week. The most interesting part of the report: “Revenues decreased 17% ($207 million) to $1.0 billion, due to a 26% decline ($165 million) in Subscription revenues and a 6% decrease ($33 million) in Advertising revenues. The decline in Subscription revenues reflects mainly a decrease in domestic AOL brand subscribers, [...]
October 31, 2008 by
Lisa Whelan |
Mobile,
Social Media
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I’m starting do to a quick weekly round-up of the Social Media and Mobile news that I find most interesting. Enjoy AOL: AOL Journals and AOL Hometown are shutting down (joining Xdrive and BlueString) Apple: Apple announces retroactive improvements to “MobileMe”. The following improvements were silently launched in Sept. : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3182 iPhone users in the [...]
June 13, 2008 by
Lisa Whelan |
Social Media
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And the number one social network in the world is…IT’S A TIE! Facebook just caught up to MySpace. The race to the top gets more and more interesting. Stay tuned…
May 29, 2008 by
Lisa Whelan |
Social Media
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Imagine what would happen if the guy that you sat next to in high school math class and barely spoke to randomly arrived at your house one morning, 15 years after graduation, ringing your doorbell, and screaming, “POOOOOOOOOKKKKKKEEEE! Remember me? Want to be my friend?!” Then, imagine opening the door and being jabbed in the [...]
May 7, 2008 by
Lisa Whelan |
Enterprise,
Social Media
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Xobni (Inbox spelled backwards), officially opened to the public yesterday. If you use Microsoft Outlook, it will change your life… Xobni is a utility for Outlook that analizes your email – things like: Who emails you most and when Who responds fastest to your emails Who you respond to fastest Xobni makes it easy for you [...]
April 25, 2008 by
Lisa Whelan |
Social Media
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At Ryan Kruder‘s suggestion, I decided to give “Blog It” a try. Blog It is SixApart’s Facebook app that allows you to update your various blogs, Twitter, and Facebook Status. BlogIt is an interesting idea… Being able to broadcast your thoughts from one place outward is great. And, yet, doing it from within Facebook is [...]
April 21, 2008 by
Lisa Whelan |
Events,
Social Media
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Last night, I went to the San Francisco chapter Social Media Club event featuring the authors of Now Is Gone, Geoff Livingston and Brian Solis. It was a great event – pizza, beer, interesting conversation… What more could a fan of social media ask for? A couple of topics of conversations sparked my interest… For [...]
March 31, 2008 by
Lisa Whelan |
Social Media
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The power of social media (including social networking) constantly amazes me. It keeps people in touch with each other, facilitates introductions that may otherwise never have happened, and so much more. Since I first started writing this blog a year and a half ago, I’ve received emails and introductions from all sorts of interesting people [...]
February 29, 2008 by
Lisa Whelan |
Developers,
Enterprise,
Events
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Last night, I partied with the IT team at Genentech at Full Spectrum 2008. It was an awesome event. On the one hand, it was a typical tech party (note: Dr. Spock and Neo). On the other hand, I’ve never seen an IT team embrace Facebook with such vigor… And, as an added bonus, there [...]
