There has been a big debate if "luxury brands" will ever enter the social media realm and I guess there's no more debate because Burberry's "Art of the Trench" is one social media campaign that is running out of the gates and leaving it's competitors currently in the wind.
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The last half of 2009 was a busy year for me but maybe this list will help recap saying goodbye to 2009 and hello to 2010.
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Tonight the Miss USA Pageant decided to use Twitter during their broadcast. One thing they failed to mention was how they were using it.
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Geeeeze, how many times is Facebook going to change their Terms of Use and then take it back?
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This past week while everyone was at Twiistup, I decided to attend Twestival in Downtown LA.  A little bummed that I missed Twiistup since somehow it was planned the same night, I at least felt better that I was there for Charity and saw some old good friends.
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The tweets begin, the TV is on, and a speed chase is on the go! A White Bentley coming from North Hollywood cuts all the way west towards Manhattan Beach and 360 backs to North Hollywood.
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Tonight some of the Long Beach Tweeps tried to crash the TED Block Party that blocked off blocks of downtown Long Beach.  Our numerous attempts to @kevinrose to get us in we're unheard.  Not even the man who waved in my Qik video would help us get in either!
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This past weekend I attended the Teens in Tech Conference in San Francisco for work.  Various panel speakers came to talk, but somehow the topic of: Does dropping out of college, payoff to be an entrepreneur in the future?
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It was a crazy day on Twitter yesterday.  @BrettDPayne SEO Director for the Chicago Tribune confirmed last night on Twitter that: @jkrums passed on selling his twitpic photo of US Airways Flight 1549 crash to @LATimes and sold it to @APNewsAlert instead.
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Last week people started adding Burger King's Whopper Sacrifice app to their profiles on Facebook.  If you unfriend ten of your friends you'll be rewarded with a free Whopper.  You could: unfriend your ex, that person you hated in high school that you added because everyone else did, maybe a co-worker, or your boss!
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I used to be a regular at Pizza Hut, but ever since they changed their pan crust it hasn't been the same.  I decided to switch over to Dominos and ordered a pizza online over the weekend.  Instead of closing the window after ordering, a gage popped up that told me step by step what status my pizza was at.
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Today I caught Rick Sanchez's segment on CNN.  He had reported on a Muslim American family being booted off a plane because they were discussing where the safest part of the plane to sit is: by the wing of the plane or the back of the plane. When Rick Sanchez wanted to know viewers' opinions, there were definitely some ignorant tweets.
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Karl Fisch presented to his peers last year facts about the evolution of technology and global lifestyle.  Scott McLeod created a version of Fisch's presentation and presented to his college class.  Then someone decided to do a Mashup of Fisch, McLeod, and a man named Jeff Bronman's research in order to create a Did You Know 3.0 version.
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I heard this story via my co-worker Ashley, who found it on Gizmodo, who found it on Kotaku (Gawker Media affiliate), who found it on Cleveland.com.  Down the line through each source I read, the story kept sounding more like a game of telephone.
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You either paid to watch the fight on PPV, went to a bar and paid a cover, got suckered by a friend and paid them a cover to watch it at their house, or like me and tried to find a viral stream of the fight online.
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