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A recent Harvard Business School study showed that a small percentage of Twitter users tweet…  then the blogs exploded.  Fortunately, after the initial “See why Twitter is doomed” posts, some good commentary focused on understanding the reason for the numbers.
What we should expect from Twitter use hinges on the extent to which it is a [...]

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Tanzania Marketing

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Take a minute and guess what the most visible piece of advertising is in Tanzania.  What product do you suppose it is for?  What company logos are most prominent?
Coca-Cola?
Some local beer?  (Kilimanjaro beer.  They got the marketing to tourists thing down)
Nope.  The ads you see plastered on every store in Tanzania are for cell phone [...]

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At mobile forums like this one, there is a lot of talk about the iPhone market size.  The traditional wisdom is: if you want to make money selling mobile apps you have to develop for multiple platforms.
This is because of the fragmented mobile device market of which currently includes 10M iPhones or so.
Looking at only [...]

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Who will merge my contacts?

Friday, July 11th, 2008

I want one contact list to reference everyone in my social graph.  Is that too much to ask?
Enterprises realize benefits from unified contacts
One of the biggest new areas in enterprise these days is unified communications. These UC systems integrate IM, Mail, Voice, and Video into one unified client.  My current company, Cisco, is a leader [...]

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