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Super Original Thinking is Required to Topple Facebook

Sword and the Script

Market research, social engineering and a little bit of luck seemed to produce a spate of so-called “boy bands” in the late 1990s. Virality, or appearance of virality, can be fabricated for a price. It was a radical, if not unpalatable idea, that hit artists could be fabricated rather than discovered. It’s crazy right?

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How to Spy on Your Competition & Steal Their Secrets

Cision

Today, it is so much easier and it’s a lot more transparent with the advent of search engines and a social web. A laptop, the web, and a search engine and you have the starter tools to begin this spying caper. In doing this, it has grown their real estate blog from 2,000 to 18 million views per month in just two years!

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How to Spy on Your Competition and Steal Their Secrets

Beyond PR

Today, it is so much easier and it’s a lot more transparent with the advent of search engines and a social web. A laptop, the web, and a search engine and you have the starter tools to begin this spying caper. In doing this, it has grown their real estate blog from 2,000 to 18 million views per month in just two years!

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#20: Building the bridge between infrastructure and data-driven media intelligence

NewsWhip

This is not going out to a camping site where you’re going to pitch a tent, pack it up when you’re done, we’re talking about highly engineered permanent structures. You need to really establish the set of facts rooted in research engineering and science, which infrastructure is, you need to use that to your advantage.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

That year, Italian electrical engineer Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi invented the "wireless telegraph" (16). Charles Francis Jenkins, American inventor, engineer, and television pioneer. Along with Karl Ferdinand Braun in 1909, the pair were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.

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