7 Feb, 2011
People who pay attention to social media and digital marketing are very much aware of the latest brouhaha over a tweet by Kenneth Cole. Cole, who claims to have posted the tweet himself, stuck his designer shoe squarely in his mouth by making a joke over an international crisis, but he immediately realized his gaffe and posted a sincere public apology.
Once upon a time, that would have been the end of the story. The apology would have been issued, the public’s feathers would become unruffled, and we’d return to business as usual. That was life before the Flame Wars.
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14 Jan, 2011
You won’t read this blog post.
It’s not a text message. There are more than 140 characters, no bullet points and I don’t use the phrases, “WIN,” “FAIL,” or “…is the new [insert whatever is supposed to be cool now].” Sorry, there won’t be a list of the 10 20 67 Hottest Social HTML5 Gradient Vector Viral Marketing Strategies to Leverage Your WordPress Template!
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17 Dec, 2010
In 2005 I imported my browser bookmarks to an online bookmarking website with a strange URL: del.icio.us. Over five years and 3200 bookmarks later, Yahoo! (who acquired Delicious in late 2005) has evidently decided to sunset the service.
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