Pivoting (for those who don’t know what/why)
It’s all in the build-up
A quick and dirty study on Social Media
In which I delete 4,000 LinkedIN Contacts

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Hotmail & MySpace: Too old to rock’n roll, too young to die?

by Alexander Blom on May 13, 2010

in Thoughts, tips & advice

Credit to @fantomaster for coming up with the title! Microsoft are making major improvements to Hotmail. It was many years ago that I left Hotmail in favour of my Gmail account which provided a faster, cleaner and more intuitive offering then the slow, restricted and ad-heavy Hotmail of the time. I was using Hotmail back [...]

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An oversight on ‘Social Networks over-valued?’

by Alexander Blom on March 6, 2009

in Thoughts, tips & advice

Just a quick update, I forgot to make a mention on my last blog about our reliance on advertisements – so I will keep this entry quick! The social network QQ from China earned $523 million in revenues for 07-08, four times that of Facebook. Interestingly, only 13% of their revenue came from advertising – [...]

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Social Networks over-valued?

by Alexander Blom on March 2, 2009

in Thoughts, tips & advice

Ok, I’m addicted to Twitter – it often provides me with plenty of food for thought. A few days weeks ago now I received a Tweet from a long time connection of mine, SunnyC. Sunny had recently read that Twitter was preparing to monetise and we both wondered whether this would change the service in [...]

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