Groupon Rejects $6 Billion Google Offer
December 3, 2010 Leave a comment
Full article at All Things Digital
… the increasingly jaded musings of a curmudgeon-in-training
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Full article at All Things Digital
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December 3, 2010 Leave a comment
Google Plus One, or +1, is the running name of Google’s anticipated social network, likely to debut April 2011 as per tech blog UBERGIZMO.
Google has a lot riding on this, evidenced by it being helmed by one of its founders Sergey Brin.
For more, see Ubergizmo
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December 1, 2010 Leave a comment
Last updated: Dec, 7, 2010 (see end of entry)
I strongly support both e-commerce and Google, and in fact I do most of my shopping online and just about all of my product research using Google. But this cautionary tale by the New York Time’s David Segal is a must read.
Titled, ‘A Bully Finds a Pulpit on the Web‘, it recounts how an unscrupulous e-retailer games both Google Search and the e-commerce system, including MasterCard and VISA, to where the more people complain about him online, the more successful he becomes.
Chilling.
Updated 12/1/2010 4:19 PM ET: Displaying its world-class customer service, Google has already implemented a promising solution — at least for the short-term:
Updated 12/7/2010 10:55 AM ET:
Online Retailer Charged With Fraud, Threats (CBS Moneywatch) by Kathy Kristof
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November 22, 2010 Leave a comment
1-in-4 page views now hosted by Facebook; more importantly, FB exceeds Google for visits by 42% http://ow.ly/3dC28
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A social media professional since 1997, background and experience includes curating communities for 10 years on AOL in Community and Social Messaging; leading the B2B user participation effort at BusinessWeek; and spearheading social media from the PR/Communications department at Bloomberg L.P. Specialist in leveraging social media to build and grow online communities via real-time interaction, content programming, blogging/micro-blogging, social networking and monetization. Avid social media participant professionally and personally; has led industry discussions on social media and community moderation. Leverages Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Google+; wikis and more to promote brands and increase user engagement. An excellent communicator: the voice of the customer and evangelist/educator of social media inside the organization,
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