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Twitter: @Anywhere announcement

16th March 2010 by Laurel Papworth under API, Online Communities, Twitter, social media, social networks, web 3.0     

Twitter just announced @anywhere platform – notice who is missing? Google! Dunno why, Bing is there, but there must be a war forming  between Twits vs Googlers. Anyway here’s my thoughts, right after the Twitter blog/press release: Monday, March 15, 2010 When we designed Twitter, we took a different approach—we didn’t require a relationship model [...]

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Salesforce Twitter: Don’t interrupt customer conversations

27th March 2009 by Laurel Papworth under API, Featured, Online Communities, Twitter, social media, social networks     

Social networks meets market intelligence meets customer relationship management systems might just equal spam. Spam: food for thought So this is what I see happening on Twitter: GaryPHayes: @SilkCharm Watcha doin’ Silk? SilkCharm: @GaryPHayes making a cup of tea. Gonna have it with a Tim Tam ArnottsTeam @SilkCharm Oh you like TimTams? Have you seen [...]

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Ryan Air cancels 3rd party bookings

10th August 2008 by Laurel Papworth under API, Featured, Marketing, Online Communities, business, social networks     

eBay makes more money from it’s APIs than it does from onsite auctions. So does SaaS Salesforce. So does Amazon. Apparently RyanAir is choosing not to do that: Ryanair blocks ‘illegal’ bookings Ryanair is to cancel thousands of its own customers’ bookings after they were made through internet travel agents whose activities it says are [...]

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