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According to a study by Sage Software and AMI-Partners, more than 260,000 small businesses in the US and Canada employ social networking tactics, too.
Most of them used professional social networking sites such as LinkedIn. General social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook were also widely used, followed by niche communities and job sites.
Less popular were microblogging services (such as Twitter and Yammer), forums, wikis and social bookmarking applications.
The reasons for adopting social networking tactics varied, but the most widespread uses of social media were for responding to customer questions, networking, and reference and educational purposes.
Many of the small business’ I speak to are not using social media but they are “looking at it”. The recession however is fueling interest in social media as business budgets are tightened.
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How’s that for casual motoring? Two dogs, no helmet, on a cellphone. Welcome to Sumatra, Indonesia. I saw another bike loaded with 3 dogs and 2 guys on the way to what I found out later was a weekly wild boar hunt. If you find yourself in Padang on a Wednesday, make your way over towards Painan for some good fun hunting boar.
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I’ve been digging Mastodon for about a year now. Their new album, “Crack The Skye” is worth checking out if you’re a fan of progressive hard rock. I’m hoping they come out with a DTS version.
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Under the agreement, Detroit Electric will use Proton’s underutilized assembly line. Detroit Electric’s motor, lithium polymer battery, the drive train and other components will be fitted in the bodies of two Proton models, Persona and Gen 2. They will be sold as Detroit Electric, without a specific brand name.
Keep up the trend. Sorry Saudi Arabia..
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OK, call me impressed. Thanks to Jan for linking me to Evernote, an app that let’s you snap photos, clip web pages and take notes across multiple platforms and have them all synced in the cloud. The coolest thing I see about it so far is the OCR that happens on their servers.
You can see I’ve searched twitter for Evernote buzz on my laptop then snapped a photo of my screen with the everphone iphone app. After a few moments the photo showed up on the Evernote desktop app and upon searching it all the text on the page is now indexed and searchable. Really cool.. I am liking this. There’s also safari and firefox addons for grabing web clips. Windows, Mac and mobile friendly.
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Barcamp Malaysia is now Barcamp KL. Get registered registered. Facebook event page here.
I’m not planning on giving a talk this time around but who knows. It’s barcamp, things happen spontaneously. See you there!
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The WSJ is reporting that Skype is finally being released for the iPhone. Check the AppStore Tuesday for the official release. Personally this is the most wanted app on my phone. I’m hoping it will work with backgrounder.
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For the past 2 months Celcom 3g constantly switches between HSDPA and WCDMA after 5 to 10 minutes of connection. Once the cycling between connection modes starts you cannot browse and must disconnect then reconnect, then wait a few minutes – repeat.
I contacted Celcom to find out what the problem was and they replied that they were ‘very sorry’ but that they were performing upgrades and I would be experiencing this problem through June. The service is quite expensive by local standards, 26 USD per month for up to 5GB of transfer monthly. I asked them to stop billing me until the service is reliable.
They called back 2 weeks later and said they can offer me a 5% discount. I let them know that I would be canceling the service if they could not offer a better discount until the time when they can offer me reliable service. I’m now waiting for their reply. Apparently the maximum discount they can offer for slow speeds is 5%. If you are calling Celcom about getting a rebate for poor service tell them your complaint is not about speed but line stability.
When HSDPA is working I am very satisfied with the service. I hope they can work something out and get upgrades completed quickly. Maxis offers mobile broadband service but I find that when you are actually mobile in a car or otherwise, Celcom service works better. For reference I experience the cycling WCDMA/HSDPA problem in PJ Section 14, Section 19 and many other parts of KL.
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Researcher Kamal Meattle along with NASA has concluded that these three plants, areca palm, mother-in-law’s tongue and money plant are the most effective at cleaning the air indoors and providing oxygen. Time to plant some in the bedroom. Video from TED here
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