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October 24, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Enterprise,
Events,
Mobile
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I’ve had a great couple of days at the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) Wireless IT & Entertainment Conference in San Francisco catching up with old friends and colleagues in wireless and learning more about where the industry is going. It all started with Tuesday’s keynote from Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, which CTIA themed […]
October 24, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Enterprise,
Mobile,
Social Media
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Was I the only one who was underwhelmed with the Facebook and RIM announcement of Facebook for BlackBerry at this morning’s CTIA keynote? Don’t get me wrong, Facebook’s co-founder, Dustin Moskovitz, presented very well, but I was hoping for more. Moskovitz didn’t mention Microsoft. Just hours after the keynote, the Wall Street Journal confirmed rumors […]
October 12, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Developers
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I just got back from a 2 week work + vacation trip to London. On the night I arrived (Sept 26), I was invited to a London Girl Geek Dinner in London sponsored by Astraware, a company I worked closely with while I was a consultant at Palm. The Girl Geek Dinners are increasing in […]
September 10, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
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The social media quote of the day goes to the International Herald Tribune, who published a great article on social networking for the retired set: Technology investors and entrepreneurs, long obsessed with connecting to teenagers and 20-somethings, are starting a host of new social networking sites targeting their parents and grandparents. The sites have names […]
August 27, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Financing,
Social Media
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Today, Reuters published an interesting article “Social Network Sites Tempt Investors” talking about the liklihood of a flury of social networking IPOs. The article is well worth a read for all of you social media fans out there. According to the article, so called “Wall Street observers” believe that United Online Inc.‘s recent registration for […]
August 22, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Advertising,
Events,
Social Media
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Tonight is the first chance I’ve had to write about the Facebook Developer/ Influencer conference that I went to last week. The event was an invite-only afternoon of panel discussions hosted by Seth Goldstein of SocialMedia. Attendees included about 50 developers, entrepreneurs, investors, and a couple of bloggers, and the discussions ranged from “When, if […]
August 15, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Social Media
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Today in Boomtown, Kara Swisher talks about a management shuffle at Facebook. Among the apparent changes is the move of Owen Van Natta from COO to chief revenue officer and vice president of operations. Swisher elaborates saying: Van Natta now shares power–how uneasily it remains to be seen–with newly installed Vice President of Marketing and […]
August 7, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Advertising,
Social Media
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The Financial Times reports today that Central Office of Information (COI), the UK Government’s “center of excellence for marketing and communications,” has put a moratorium on advertising on social media sites like Facebook. COI organizes marketing campaigns to promote issues of public importance (education, health, welfare, etc.) for various UK Government departments. The organization announced […]
August 7, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Advertising,
Social Media
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The Financial Times reports today that Central Office of Information (COI), the UK Government’s “center of excellence for marketing and communications,” has put a moratorium on advertising on social media sites like Facebook. COI organizes marketing campaigns to promote issues of public importance (education, health, welfare, etc.) for various UK Government departments. The organization announced […]
August 5, 2007 by
Lisa Oshima |
Developers,
Social Media
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