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Steal These 3 Social Marketing Tricks From Top Brands

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Steal These 3 Social Marketing Tricks From Top Brands
2:30:56 AMTodd Wasserman
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Do you follow a brand in social media? Are you glad you did? If that's the case, they are either doing one of three things: Connecting with one of your passions and/or interests.
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Man Faces 18 Months in Jail for Twitter Parody
Thursday, February 21, 2013 10:10 PMThe Daily Dot
A man in Chile is facing 18 months in jail after a businessman accused him of identity theft over Twitter parody accounts. Rodrigo Ferrari Prieto is accused of being behind three now inactive accounts that mocked Chilean business mogul Andrónico Luksic and his family, according to Global Voices.
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Here's Who Needs a Chromebook Pixel
Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:50 PMChris Taylor
The tech pundit jury has apparently reached a solemn, sober verdict on the Chromebook Pixel laptop Google launched Thursday. And the verdict is ... "Oh my God, look at the sticker price!" (Tech pundits faint with shock.) This rush to judgment, most of it without so much as seeing the device, is a great pity. I've been using the Pixel all day, and it's one of the most gorgeous pieces of hardware I've picked up in a while.
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Thursday, February 21, 2013 7:01 PMAppAdvice
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Google Chromebook Pixel Is an Expensive Gamble
Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:21 PMLance Ulanoff
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Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:09 PMPete Pachal
We've seen how it will look and feel, but how will Google Glass actually work? Thanks to a Google patent application that was made public today, we have an idea — as well as insight into how Google sees the product evolving in the future. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) just posted a patent application from Google, filed in August 2011, that describes the search giant's augmented-reality headset in detail.
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NBC's Website Has Been Hacked
Thursday, February 21, 2013 3:46 PMTodd Wasserman
NBC.com was not functioning properly Thursday afternoon. Visitors to the site saw the following warning: However, the site appeared to be back to normal later in the afternoon. An NBC rep confirmed to Mashable during the outage that that "there is definitely a situation," but declined to provide more details. Sister sites like Bravotv.com and CNBC.com do not appear to be affected.
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Thursday, February 21, 2013 3:20 PMTodd Wasserman
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Thursday, February 21, 2013 2:52 PMScott Gerber
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Thursday, February 21, 2013 2:48 PMPete Pachal
Now we know what Google's plan was for QuickOffice when it acquired the company last summer. The search giant is hard-wiring it into Chrome OS, and the new Chromebook Pixel will be the first Chromebook to run QuickOffice via the browser. When Google swallowed up QuickOffice it said it was buying the software because of its interoperability features.
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