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Why twitter is relevant and how it can make money

There’s been some speculation on how twitter can make money and while there are detractors who still don’t understand why people would twitter, it’s becoming clear that twitter happens to have captured a unique segment of the population in a way that practically no other site has.
Twitter’s very nature attracts chatterboxes, connectors, social sneezers. [...]

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I submitted an inquiry to B&H Photo, an online Photo Store that has a cute habit of ‘closing’. Evidently these people didn’t get the message that online stores don’t have hours or off days. But here’s the kicker, I emailed their customer service for an inquiry, and this is the response:

We regret that we cannot [...]

When marketing has no clue

This from the freakonomics blog
In January, Hasbro, the North American distributor of Scrabble, announced plans to sue Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, the creators of Facebook’s most popular application: Scrabulous 
So…instead of embracing an application that’s bringing together millions of Scrabble fans, Hasbro has decided to alienate their own userbase and try to shut down something that [...]