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How to Overcome Obstacles and Turn Them into Summits

If you know me well, you'll be aware that I can be like a Rottweiler when it comes to solving challenges. Now…

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The power of networking with social media & video – how I got Dan Ariely to leave a comment on my blog (unintentionally!)

Post by Dez Futak. The video is *really* quiet, so turn up your speakers to full 🙂 Dan Ariely's book Predictably Irrational…

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Social Media? How About Mobile Marketing?

I was going to keep quiet about this. But I'm spilling the beans about mobile marketing instead. The reason? Well, just as…

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Welcome to the Mad Web Scientist!

YouTube’s First EVER Video: Me at the Zoo Jawed Karim’s impressive geek skills also include being the main coder for Paypal’s real-time…

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Why are Viral Videos More Effective Than Traditional Advertising?

Picture this: you’re cooking some food, listening to your favourite music radio station, when suddenly your serene (or maybe excited!) state of…

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Implications of the Yahoo Twitter Partnership

If you’re a social media news watcher, you will know about the recent Yahoo Twitter Partnership. In essense, here’s what’s happening –…

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Google Fiber – "Embrace and Extend"?

If you’ve been hanging around the IT world for a while, you might know that at one point (and maybe they still…

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Internet Marketing 101: How to use Social Media

If you’ve just started up in internet marketing, you might feel an adrenaline rush when you stumble across Twitter, or Facebook. The…

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Facebook Acquires FriendFeed – what about Google & Twitter?

This is pretty big news: you can read the full article in the Search Engine Journal here: Here are my comments (which…

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Google Wave: Collaborative Communication on Steroids

Summary Image via CrunchBase Google Wave is like your own customizable mashup of several different communications technologies. Think of it as a…

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