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This post got me thinking
“93 of top 100 brands don’t control their Twitter name”
I know Zappos have done an amazing job with twitter and I have engaged with their CEO Tony Hsieh who has over 30,000 fans including me.
Shel has been interviewing a number of corporate Twitterers for his book Twitterville but I am yet [...]

Its the end of a fantastic year but a chat with a few friends over the past few days have got me thinking.
I think we are being played, I didn’t mind it so much before but its become so bad lately that its gone beyond a joke.
This is not about brands its about people that [...]

Jason Kincaid today writes on twitter latest acquisition.
“Hot on the heels of news that it rejected an acquisition offer from Facebook, Twitter has announced that it has acquired Values of n, a startup that produced information management applications including Stikkit, a post-it note application and I Want Sandy, an Email assistant”
These are two pretty cool [...]

Kara Swisher has the story of the year today
“When-twitter-met-facebook-the-acquisition-deal-that-fail-whaled”
If this is true and I have no reason to doubt the hyper-connected Kara does it reflect poorly on Facebook and their ridiculously inflated price tag of $15 billion.
This takes serious cahones by the Twitter team led by Evan Williams and suggests that they do have a [...]

Crunchgear Rockstar John Biggs tipped me off today to the launch of VoxOx a new product by Telecentris

This is a sure fired winner, call quality is excellent for a start and far outweighs the sometimes “come in rubber duck” quality that I experience on Skype.
All sign-ups at VoxOx get a free two hours worth of [...]

One of my favorite sites and a subject close to my heart Linkedin today unveiled their new social look.
Basically Linkedin have pulled a Facebook, users can now add a number of their favorite applications to their Linkedin profile, this will certainly help Linkedin with their visitors numbers and should make the social side of [...]

The contacts in your mobile phone are THE social network and with a number of companies attempting to gain access to this it was only a matter of time before back-up kings Zyb made a play for this.

The ZYB Phonebook will, for example, enable you to:

* see the live physical location [...]

What can I say about Jeff Pulver?
Friend, gentleman, amazing voip guy, great broadcaster oh and the greatest purveyor of breakfast known to man.
I was sad today to read the news that Jeff has resigned as a director at PulverMedia
Best of luck Jeff if you need anything we are here

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I had been meaning to write about this but with travel it just slipped past me.
Ken has an interesting post on it here but probably for the first time ever we will have to agree to disagree.
I think MySpace has a lot more potential than Facebook where there are too many me2 products and fantastic [...]

Iotum today announced global availability of its popular FREE Conference Calls application on Facebook under agreements with Internet communications partners Truphone in the U.K., Abbeynet in Italy and MOI Telecom in France.

Starting today, users can join an iotum FREE Conference Call using one of three methods:
1. Direct dial from home, office, or [...]