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The lovely Janaina Pilomia from Forum Nokia was kind enough to loan me a brand new Nokia N97 for blogging at the Mobile 2.0 Conference in Barcelona in June.
The device was put to good use, and is now looking for a new home. Nokia are prepared to offer [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted August 4, 2009
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Tagged developer tweet, mobile developer, n97, Nokia, Nokia N97, nokia n97 twitter, nokia tweet, nokia va twitter, tetweet twitterpitch, twitter nokia, twitter pitch
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On Saturday 4th July, I visited the Wimbledon Championships as a guest of IBM, in relation to a book I am writing on the business use of twitter (more on this in an upcoming post).
IBM, in conjunction with their advertising Agency Ogilvy has served up three brilliant applications for the 2009 Wimbledon Championships. You [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted July 5, 2009
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Tagged @centre_court, AELTC, Alan Flack, All English Lawn Tennis CLub, android, app store, AR, Augmented Reality, Brendon Riley, compass phone, google g1, gps, IBM, IBM Seer, IBM UK, iphone, Layar, lbs, location, Mobilizy, ogilvy, Ogilvy UK, Pat Cash, smarter Wimbledon, tennis, The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, The Championships, twitter, wikitude, Wimbledon, Wimbledon iPhone app
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Over at Sky News, there is an interesting report on how Dell and others are making real money from twitter.
Quoting from the story:
Dell embraced social media in 2007, and set up their @DellOutlet account to advertise discounts on refurbished products.
It also publishes promotions exclusive to 600,000 Twitter followers.
Dell now has a string of accounts and [...]
I picked up an interesting story in the Sydney Morning Herald as I was on the plane back to London explaining the origins of the “fail whale” picture that greets twitter users when twitter is over capacity.
Apparently the artwork was designed some years ago by Sydney designer Yiying Lu, and is titled “lifting up a [...]
I picked up a well written, if not quite cynical piece from Richard Glover in the Sydney Morning Herald about this new “twitter fad”.
His subject was “You could bring back the hula hoop if you found a way of connecting it to the net ”
In the piece, Richard suggests
“Twitter is a social networking site that [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 24, 2009
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Tagged e-fad, hula hoop, internet fad, mobile, Richard Glover, SMH, sydney morning herald, twitter, twitter fad, web 2.0
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UPDATE: March 6 2009 – since finishing this article last night, my twitter theory about breaking news and the power of twitter search has been once again proven correct. At 09:57 GMT this morning, one of my Melbourne twitter friends @emilyfreeman tweeted “did the earth just move? Seriously??”.
This article was also published by Digital-Media magazine in Australia [...]
By Andrew Grill
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Posted March 6, 2009
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Tagged @andrewgrill, ad age, breaking news, dabr, eric schmidt, eureka moment, google, local search, local social search, melbourne earthquake, mobile advertising, mobile social, mobile social networking, mobile social search, twitter, twitter news, twitter search
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If you use twitter, and aren’t using TweetDeck – what’s wrong with you!
While I was at Tuttle in London on Friday, I wasn’t there long enough to catch up with TweetDeck guru, Iain Dodsworth.
Lucky for us though, our man inside - Christian Payne (@documentally) was there and he recorded this short interview below.
Talking With TweetDeck from Documentally [...]
