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Month: June 2012

  • Twitter: Where off the record is on the record

    There can be few people who wouldn’t agree that Twitter use by people is very much part of the mainstream these days. Even if you don’t use Twitter yourself – meaning, you don’t have a Twitter handle nor do you…

  • American Express and Foursquare connect in the UK

    I was pretty excited when I first learned that American Express were bringing their Foursquare promotional offerings to the UK, their first market for this outside the US. Just as in the US, what the promotion does for American Express…

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  • Spot the PR fake

    Is it Shell’s private Arctic launch party that goes wrong? This was a private send-off for Shell’s arctic rigs (Kulluk and Noble discoverer) at the Seattle Space Needle. The rigs were visible outside the window. Incredibly, there was an obvious…

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  • Facebook could be a standard feature in credit scoring

    German news magazine Der Spiegel reports that Germany’s largest credit agency plans to mine Facebook and other social networking sites in search of information that could help the agency determine what effect online relationships may have on people’s abilities to…

  • Attention is all in the headline

    Isn’t this a far more powerful attention-grabber than “World IPv6 day on June 6”? A Whole New Version Of The Internet Is About To Be Switched On And the first paragraph: In about five hours, the next version of the…

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