The results are in: People love to share the experience of watching the Super Bowl with millions of other viewers from around the world. Whether it’s cheering for your team, commenting on the halftime show or discussing the ads, it seems you have a l…
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Post-Bowl Twitter analysis
Posted by twitter on February 6th, 2012
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Tags: Game, Halftime Show, Madonna, Spike, Super Bowl, Three Minutes, Tps, Tradition, Twitter 
Comments OffHashtags in Orkut communities
Posted by Blog on February 6th, 2012
Our team continues working hard to improve Orkut communities, and today we are introducing a new feature: support for hashtags.
From now on, whenever you’re reading a topic, all hashtags will be automatically highlighted and will link to our imp…
Posted in Google, Social Networks Tags: Engineer, Feature Support, Google, googlenew, New Feature, Orkut Communities, Reply, Search Page, search results, Wisniewski Comments OffThe Rise of Pinterest — and Other Top Stories on LinkedIn This Week
Posted by Daniel Roth on February 3rd, 2012
First, some housekeeping: Every Wednesday night, we run the report on what stories were most shared by LinkedIn’s 135-plus million members. That means the news of Facebook’s coming IPO — announced Wednesday, Feb. 1 — had only one day to attempt to rocket to the top of our rankings. A Mashable story about the IPO [...]
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Posted in Email, Social Networks Tags: Advertiser, Amp, Bbc, Bob Mcdonald, Business Insider, Business Model, Business World, Entrepreneur, Facebook, Free Impressions, Google, Housekeeping, Infographic, Ipo, linkedin, linkedin-news, Old Spice, Rocket To The Top, Traffic Driver, Web Economy, Wednesday Night Comments OffRoar of the crowd: Super Bowl on Twitter
Posted by twitter on February 2nd, 2012
From @TimTebow leading the Denver Broncos to a shocking overtime win (and a new record for sports-related Tweets per second: 9,420) to San Diego Chargers receiver @ericweddle1’s sideline Tweets from the Pro Bowl—we watched all of the NFL post-seaso…
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What Makes Apple Tick? Adam Lashinsky Tells the Inside Story
Posted by Daniel Roth on January 30th, 2012
Ed. note: If you’ve read some of the recent coverage around Adam Lashinsky‘s recent comments on what makes Apple tick, you may want to check out the entire interview below. For large periods of my professional life, I worked at Fortune — as a writer, editor and then as editor of Fortune.com. One of the many [...]
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Posted in Email, Social Networks Tags: Adam Lashinsky, Apple Works, Business World, Ed Note, Execs, First Day At Work, Fortune, Free Lunches, Greatness, Inner Workings, linkedin-news, New Silicon Valley, Office Politics, Periods, Powerful Names, Professional Life, Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs, Strong Hand, Tick, Writer Editor Comments OffThe Dire Outlook For Middle Class Jobs in the U.S. — And Other Top Stories on LinkedIn This Week
Posted by Daniel Roth on January 27th, 2012
Is SOPA really dead? If you believe Mashable’s headline – in what is our most shared story of the week – the Stop Online Piracy Act has moved on to its final resting place. But if you read the words of the act’s chief sponsor, Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, it sounds more like SOPA is [...]
Posted in Email, Social Networks Tags: American Innovators, Bad News, Chief Sponsor, Creators, Dormitory, Final Resting Place, Harbinger, Jan 19, Job In India, Lamar Smith, linkedin, linkedin-news, Marketing Consultant, Mashable, Piracy, Professional Conversation, Prolific Author, Recession, Seth Godin, Smelling Salts, Twitter Comments OffTweets still must flow
Posted by twitter on January 26th, 2012
One year ago, we posted “The Tweets Must Flow,” in which we said,“The open exchange of information can have a positive global impact … almost every country in the world agrees that freedom of expression is a human right. Many countries also agree t…
Posted in Email, Social Networks Tags: Account Settings, Contours, Core Values, Freedom Of Expression, Germany, Global Impact, Open Exchange, Partnership, Rest Of The World, Transparency, Tweet, Twitter Comments OffBetween the electronic beat and the countryside
Posted by Blog on January 26th, 2012
We are excited with the feedback from our users about the new themes we have released lately. Because of this and following some suggestions from our users we now present another two new themes! For those who enjoy electronic music we have a great new…
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Posted in Google, Social Networks Tags: Calmness, Countryside, Drum Machine, Electronic Music, Feedback, Google, Koji, Pereira, themes Comments OffHack Week @ Twitter
Posted by twittereng on January 25th, 2012
Hack Week is one of the ways we actively promote innovation through experimentation around the company. This week, a wide range of folks here are taking time away from their day-to-day work to collaborate and develop ideas that they are passionate abou…
Posted in Email, Social Networks Tags: Comfortable With Uncertainty, Creative Muscles, Hack, Innovation, Inspiration, January 24, New Feature, Taking Time Comments Off
Roar of the crowd: Super Bowl on Twitter
From @TimTebow leading the Denver Broncos to a shocking overtime win (and a new record for sports-related Tweets per second: 9,420) to San Diego Chargers receiver @ericweddle1’s sideline Tweets from the Pro Bowl—we watched all of the NFL post-seaso…
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