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Posts Tagged ‘Twitter’

October 22nd, 2009

Social Search: Customers Influence Search Results Over Brands

This post was collaboratively written (in real time) on a wiki by Charlene Li, who maintains a focus on Leadership Strategy and Jeremiah Owyang, who maintains a focus on Customer Strategy. Together, we’re covering the convergence of emerging technologies at…

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March 4th, 2009

Skittles bravely lets social media take over the homepage, redefines branding

On Monday, Skittles changed it’s home page over to emphasis social media, specifically a Twitter search for “skittles”. I’ve included a screenshot of it (click on it to see it full size). The result: “#skittles” was the top trending topic…

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February 25th, 2009

Celebrating birthdays in a networked world

This past Sunday was my birthday and I experienced part of it with my extended networks on places ranging from Facebook and Plaxo to Twitter (and now, my blog). I have to say, it was wonderful to get all of…

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February 2nd, 2009

Super Bowl Twitter Chatter map from the New York Times

This is a very cool mashup application using time lapsed “tweets” created by the New York Times to track what was capturing the people’s attention during the Super Bowl. The tweets are shown on a map of the US to…

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