No, this is not an unsavoury campaign in any way. It is, however, a very noble and innovative campaign aiming at raising money for Breast Cancer Research. Tweet for Boobs is a US-based initiative in which Twitter users can use the tag #tweetforboob...
Here is a letter I sent today to Apple's European customer-relations representative. Core buys their stock from Apple Europe so they seem like the right people to contact. I hope I get feedback.
To whom it may concern
I am sending you this em...
Twitter is a microblogging platform that has recently grown at an incredible pace, with more than 10 million current users. It is one of those ideas that are hard to understand for someone who has not used it before (that someone can be anyone)....
The race to own the social profile
Companies, brands and start-ups are waking up to the fact that there's a really easy way to disintermediate service providers. Own the social profile, not the mother brand. Look what Mint.com is doing in the US f...
I first came across Twitter, the micro-blogging service, in 2006 when I was living in San Francisco. Up until quite recently I resisted using it for the simple reason that I didn't think I needed to. I was also worried about the concomitant informati...
A new Twitter-based advertising service called Magpie was recently launched, giving Twitter users the opportunity to earn money in return for allowing adverts to be posted in their Twitter stream between updates.
So if someone you follow has sign...
I love Twitter. But I’m starting to fall very much out of love with some of the tweets that pop up in my stream.
Yes, obviously, Twitter offers us a quicker, less formal, real-time version of email. And yes, it’s gone way beyond its original p...
Ok, it didn't actually save my life but I definitely felt something change this weekend. I was sitting at home in quiet, decidedly suburban Durbanville when I heard a tremendous bang and the front door shook like it had just been hit by something ve...
For those of you who don't know, twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and receive other users' updates, known as tweets. Tweets can be seen as text messages which move between users' computers r...
I found this interesting -- yet another example of social media being considered a viable facet of a marketing strategy.
Lenovo has sponsored this portal for athlete bloggers at the Olympics.
The site is well designed. Lots of bloggers wri...
