How to Protect Your Brand Online for $99

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The other day I was looking for a way to protect a client’s brand online by reserving their brand name in the various Social Media sites.
Two things struck me like a brick:
1) There are a lot of Social Media sites out there! If you consider the biggies you’re talking about at least 20 sites. This [...]

HashTags.org back up and running (soon)

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I spoke with Cody (@superphly) who runs Hashtags.org (#hashtags). The site’s back up and running as of this morning. It will take a while for the DNS numbers to propogate but you’ll be able to access the site soon.

Hashtags.org Gone?

Has Hashtags.org gone away?

10:35 Pacific Time – Update – this is what shows up now:

I was trying to look at Hashtags.org just now and I found that domain had expired. A missed email or is the site going away? Auto-renew is a great thing for an important domain!

8 Social Media Trends and 22 Tools from Robert Scoble’s keynote speech (SocialTech)

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In Robert Scoble’s keynote today at Social Tech in San Jose (#mptech), he went through the changes from yesterday’s web to the 2010 web and beyond. I’ve captured 8 key points or trends that he discussed in the speech.  He also reviewed a long list of tools and technologies that B2B and B2C marketers [...]

Interesting Trivia from Twitter Co-founder Biz Stone

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I attended a Silicon Valley area corporate event today and heard some interesting stories from Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder (@biz) about the early days of Twitter.  This would make some decent trivia for your next cocktail party.

The reason for the 140 character limit?  SMS limits are 160 characters so they set the limit at 140 [...]