Beginning today, right-to-left languages are now available for volunteers to translate in the Twitter Translation Center, starting with Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu. The Twitter Translation Center takes a crowd-sourced approach to translating and localizing Twitter for people around the world. More than 425,000 volunteers contribute to the Translation Center, and to date have …
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Increasingly I have been getting the sense that there are some fundamental issues with the way BoP focused organizations are developing, creating and implementing their market entry strategies. Here are four of the most obvious errors that I’m seeing: Assuming there’s no competition Most of these firms, particularly those coming in from the outside and [...]
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Hack Week is one of the ways we actively promote innovation through experimentation around the company. This week, a wide range of folks here are taking time away from their day-to-day work to collaborate and develop ideas that they are passionate about. Get comfortable with uncertainty; it leaves room for inspiration. #hackweek— benji shine (@bshine) [...]
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Continue ReadingI did a little research on camera stabilizers because I found any moving footage was every choppy. I’ve known about Steadicam for years, they were used in both the MTV and Pantene commercials I worked on. I needed a Steadicam for my iPhone! I had no idea if such a thing existed but lo and [...]
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Continue ReadingI took the entire year off from conferences in 2011, so that I could focus exclusively on improving and expanding our content promotion capabilities and offerings. During that time, there have been some pretty massive changes in the social media space, specifically around content marketing (aka social promotion). You have probably noticed that I am [...]
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Earlier this morning we reported that UK mobile operator O2 has been sending its customers’ mobile numbers to websites, effectively allowing website owners to monitor its visitors. The issue was… Source: Alltop RSS
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Continue ReadingApple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has announced its financial report for the first fiscal quarter of 2012, reporting revenue of $ 46.33 billion (PDF) which is a whopping 73 percent increase on the $ 26.7 billion from the same period last year. The company’s CEO Tim Cook noted that the US and Japan were particularly strong …
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Continue Reading2012 seems to be the year of many things. Business are going to take social media engagement seriously, they’ll become more comfortable in the space, they’ll hire data analysts to measure all sort of stuff in new ways. They’ll slay the dragon known as social data.Lofty goals to be sure, but the market is clear: [...]
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Continue ReadingIndian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has joined the micro-blogging site Twitter. The account @PMOIndia, is currently managed by the communications team at prime minister’s office. But, one cannot rule out the possibility of Mr Singh sending out personal tweets using this account, in the future. The account was opened late on Monday, and has already [...]
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