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Updated: Dalai Lama joins [did not] Twitter and nothing will ever be the same [still goes]

February 8, 2009

[updated] It turns out someone fooled us all and created the Dalai Lama name on Twitter. At more than 16,000 followers in one weekend, the fake Dalai Lama was one of the fastest growing accounts that Twitter has ever seen. If you didn’t know about Twitter before you’ll definitely learn about it now. The American microblogging service has [...]

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People powered journalism outbeats mainstream media when reporting on the Hudson River crash

January 17, 2009

Yesterday Janis Krums found himself on a ferry outside New York witnessing the Airbus that made an emergency landing in the Hudson River. Only seconds later his first Tweet appeared on Twitter with a link to TwitPic and his now world famous photo of people leaving the plane. Later during the day pictures started to [...]

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Facebook hits 100 million users

August 27, 2008

I presented an idea in front of the board members of a leading Swedish company a while ago when one of them suddenly, quite downgrading, commented on the lack of history in terms of best practise comparison in my case. “How can you even suggest an idea that isn’t supported with at least 5 years [...]

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Where in the world is the social buzz?

August 13, 2008

  So, you’re into communication and you know you have to at least try some social media activities in order to be on track with your competitors. You meet up with your consultants who says Facebook is the shit…ah mean Myspace…eh, LinkedIn…nooo Twitter…maybe… You get it. It’s a jungle out there and planning has taken [...]

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