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The Size of the Mobile Industry in 2009 – short overview of major stats

Here is the overall total picture of mobile telecoms as an industry, its customers, revenues, services, handsets etc.

(tags: mobile statistics)
Public Relations Is Not A Right (@davefleet)

Every so often a story comes along – the recent saga around the mother of octuplets, for example – that raises the question of whether PR firms should exercise discretion in the clients with whom they choose to work. The same question gets raised for tobacco companies, oil companies, nuclear power companies and for all sorts of other organizations.

(tags: pr)
BBC – Panorama – One click from sectarianism

Dividing peace walls, unofficial Catholic or Protestant leisure centres, schools and even bus stops are some of the more visible signs of continued segregation and sectarianism.
Less visible are the multitude of web pages hosted by MySpace, Facebook and Bebo where young people openly brag about buying guns, the cost of ammo, setting up "cells" and going on night-time patrols.

(tags: sectarianism, bbc, socialnetworking)
Online marketing 'works best' when consumers are shopping

According to a survey carried out by eBay Advertising, some 61 per cent of internet users claim to pay most attention to web advertising when they are visiting e-commerce sites, New Media Age reports.

(tags: report ecommerce)
Building a G20 for all (we20)

The initiative, called we20, harnesses the power of the net through its website, we20.org, and networks such as Twitter and Facebook. Our aim is to help people host their own G20 meeting and make their own recovery plans. Over the last three months, building an open G20 has been a fascinating and testing journey.

(tags: we20 twitter facebook. socialmedia guardian)
Vlog: How To Share Live Photos With Twitter and Facebook

disclosure: ShoZu is an ex-client of mine
KFC Wants to Fill Potholes for Free – Genius!

(tags: KFC guerilla)
Bicycle Built For 2,000 – take a listen!

Bicycle Built For 2,000 is a fantastic crowd-sourced performance piece composed of 2,088 different voice recordings from around the world. Volunteers were paid $0.06 to sing a short bit of the song “Daisy Bell”, which was made famous as the first ever example of musical speech synthesis. The results were synced up into a disjointed, but intriguing composition.

(tags: speech synthesis)

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en: @ksteezy31 like 10 or 11. i gotta wake up at 9 tomorrow though. haha, im not even tired! 07/02/09 02:41pm
en: @Marutib @appi101 @deeptigp Coffee count?? :P Mine is 4 in 4 hours or so... 07/02/09 02:41pm
en: how the hell can [f] be syllabic, you amateurs, it's not even voiced. Either make another alphabet or admit you don't know what you're doing 07/02/09 02:41pm
en: @dressjunkie I shall try to sneak the iPhone under my furs. Just realised though I better get some Contacts sorted, or I'll see nowt at all! 07/02/09 02:41pm
en: @jamiepotter are you being metaphorical/ double-endre-ey? or real foxes and cocks? 07/02/09 02:41pm
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en: Yee-haw!Weekends weather forecast is looking marvelous!BBQ at the lake or chilling at the sea...what?s next? :) 07/02/09 02:41pm
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en: RT @GuyKawasaki 12 things entrepreneurs should not do: http://om.ly/?jkw Pls mark found useful or retweet 07/02/09 02:41pm
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en: @LightroomQueen It never appealed. Also would be harder to teach/write about LR if I started relying on such things - or on plugins.... 07/02/09 02:41pm
en: @SuperMiek I always throw in my jeans with the black laundry. ;-) But they're all black or darker blue. 07/02/09 02:41pm
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no: Iranian opposition newspaper shut temporarily (Karroubi's Ettemad Melli, or National Trust, beirut-online.net) http://tinyurl.com/kn5g2c 07/02/09 02:41pm
en: RT @jonahface: dart lesson frm @tits_n_tatts - drunk or sober? ur better wen ur drunk its a fact! lol 07/02/09 02:41pm
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en: Next time I find someone that writes fortune cookies, I am going to either share an ironic anecdote or hit him in the face. 07/02/09 02:41pm
en: Help! I really don't know if I should buy a msi wind u100 netbook or take my 15" MacBook pro travelling. Any advice? 07/02/09 02:41pm
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en: @azurelunatic: Overmedicating is just as problematic if not more so, though. Doctors can choose whether or not to prescribe, but still. 07/02/09 02:41pm
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en: Hmmm. To go to Sarah's, or to attempt to cook fried rice? 07/02/09 02:40pm
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en: @patju 500kg of durians, all finished hahaha.Majority are Meow san(don't whether correct spelling or not). Now i vey full until cannot walk. 07/02/09 02:40pm
en: uploading pics to myspace tomorrow. or technically later today. whatever. hopefully i will anyway. i have a shitload... 07/02/09 02:40pm
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en: @mikechitty How's early...10 or so? Will be in Headingley 07/02/09 02:40pm
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en: Would changing the one trait of mine change my entire personality? Change for the better or change of the person? 07/02/09 02:40pm
en: i have to finish that speech or whatever you wanna call it in echoes pa! 07/02/09 02:40pm
en: bed time...should awake in 14 hours or so....he he (: 07/02/09 02:40pm
en: @SuperKaylo Or any song because they're all going to be awesome? 07/02/09 02:40pm
en: @SuperKaylo - The band? Or Cilla Black trying to pronounce 'Blair'? 07/02/09 02:40pm
en: your so beautiful like a tree or a high class prostitute 07/02/09 02:40pm
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en: Schedule tweets that will be published every X number of hours, days, or weeks. http://twitRobot.com 07/02/09 02:40pm
en: is treated as a fool for believing or expecting the law to account for their many and serious inadequacy's. 07/02/09 02:40pm
en: Once or twice been on the receiving end of this .... http://tinyurl.com/lm76f7 07/02/09 02:40pm