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Social network

• CRM, Idea, Social network

  My Starbucks Idea

  04.01.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Update: Ooops, just realized that Andreas wrote about this last week. This is what happens folks when you have way to much going on inside your head. But I’ll still keep the post since there’s a new idea that has […]

• Social network

  Quotably - Twitter conversations

  03.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Microblogging and in particularly Twitter is on everyones lips nowadays. In its infancy however it still has some flaws. For example it is not very userfriendly when it comes to following replies and ongoing conversations since no such function is available on Twitter. Quotably is therefore a much welcomed service. Just enter a username and Quotably will […]

• Social network

  Social networking services for dummies

  03.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  - Tomas Nihlén, Urban Lifestyle
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• Social network

  Facebook To Launch Instant Messaging Service

  03.15.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Facebook is testing an instant messaging service which will launch soon according to TechCrunch. This might be a very smart move since many younger users are already using Facebook and MySpace as an IM service. But will the rest of the users switch from their regular IM service?

  This will be a very interesting strategy to […]

• Buzz, Social network

  Facebook exhausted?

  03.13.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Facebook has taking a lot of fire recently and primarily due to its ad system Beacon that is considered a serious threat to user privacy.  Online communities like Facebook, MySpace and Bebo are still the most popular social services online but it seem that we are on the verge of a major shift toward more nische oriented […]

• Social network

  A Facebook Application that doesn’t suck

  03.11.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Finally a Facebook application that might actually be useful. Techcrunch writes about an application
  that is designed to help find blood donors fast.
  “Historically the Red Cross will make efforts to alert the public during a shortage. But there may be a better way - leverage the social networks to get the word out. If shortages of […]

• Social network

  Social Radio

  03.08.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Social media and networking are taking giant steps this year and content on demand is ever increasingly a serious contender of traditional mediaconsumption.  BBC Radio has f ex developed a prototype system with DAB and WiFi which allows social listening; meaning you are alerted when any of your friends are listening to radio and giving you the […]

• Social network

  Most Online Communities Haven’t Stuck

  03.05.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Steve Rubel at Micro Persuasion has an interesting post about how most Internet communities eventually die.
  - Tomas Nihlén, Urban Lifestyle
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• Buzz, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social network

  Google buying Bebo? A lot of rumors these days…

  02.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Rumors say Google has bought the social network Bebo for 1 billion dollars. According to TechCrunch they got the information from a “high level source” that an acquisition was finalized on monday earlier this week. Google’s own social network Orkut is very big in Latin America but not at all that big in English speaking […]

• Blog, Social network, Viral

  Did you delete?

  01.31.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yesterday was the “International delete your Myspace account day”. Simon Owens, the blogger behind the idea, wrote a blog post at his blog Bloggasm about 10 days ago were he told the world how sick he was of the social network site MySpace and that he urged more to join him in deleting their accounts. […]

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