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Hack the Rainbow: Social Media Abuse Forces Skittles Web Site Redesign

Companies are leaping aboard the social media platform left, right and center...but a recent re-design to Skittles.com shows that it's not a simple game to play. Skittles change was forced by social media abuses. Last year ...READ»

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Virtue’s Top Social Brands of 2009: iPhone #1

Earlier this week, marketing firm Virtue released its annual list of the top 100 most social brands, where Apple and its many products reigned supreme for the second year in a row. Despite holding less than a quarter of market share in the computing world...READ»

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How Much Are You Worth to Facebook?

Facebook and others have tapped into the power of viral loops to build massive audiences in record time. Now they're using these growth engines to create the future of online advertising.READ»

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Five Addictive Augmented Reality Gaming Apps

Their games, your world: The next generation of AR gaming promises play in the environments of our choosing.READ»

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Meet the 27-Year-Old Who's Hijacking Twitter, One Quiz-Crazy Tween at a Time

In just over a month, Dave Zohrob's Twitter app, LOLquiz, has amassed more than 300,000 users and spawned at least 20 trending topics. WTF?READ»

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Bringing the Twittersphere to Your Content with Tweetboard

With 18 Million Users and as Many as 300 Tweets per Second, Twitter Comes to a Site Near YouREAD»

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Opinion Exhaustion: Skittles, President Obama, and the Assault of Everyone

Something new is happening on Skittles.com. The company isn't putting its real estate to work as a marketing platform--singing the vast and socially beneficial aspects of Skittles. Instead, they have turned their homepage over ...READ»

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How to Monitor Your Brand 24/7

Reputations are created and destroyed online in the speed of 140 characters. Here are seven tools to earn you a thumbs-up.READ»

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The Week that Twitter Tipped

Twitter has been a-tweet since 2006, but the first three months of 2009 have delivered the micro-blogging service unprecedented traffic, usership and media cachet. In the parlance of mad-haired Gladwell disciples, Twitter is ...READ»

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Will Online Social Networks Help Rebuild Skittles Brand?

How far would you go to build your brand? Would you turn your website’s homepage into a snaphot of what people are saying about your product via a twitter feed if you knew it would generate buzz and make your website go ...READ»

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Keeping Motivated

Working from home isn't always as ideal as people would like to think. At the end of the day, you have a job to do just like your friends who work in an office, only you have the added obstacle of every possible distraction to keep ...READ»

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Fast 50 Face-off: A Conversation with Innovation Guru Dev Patnaik

Innovation specialist Dev Patnaik of Jump Associates on which companies were ingenuity champs and which ones needed to "kick it up a notch."READ»

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A Fashion Statement that Takes a Stand

Nau aims to set its clothing apart by designing around a triple imperative: beauty, sustainability, and performance. Here, head designer Mark Galbraith unfolds the story behind a signature Nau item--the women's Courier Windshirt ($180).READ»

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The G Files

A Spy in the House of WorkREAD»

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In Convenience

A Spy in the House of WorkREAD»