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Klout Starts Rolling Out Perks That Match Your Score, Partners With Gilt For Discounts
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Klout, the startup that measures influence on Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook and other social media sites, is expanding the functionality of its Perks program. Klout Perks are exclusive offers or experiences, given as a result of your Klout score. For the first time, Klout is matching savings based upon a...
American Express transforms Twitter hashtags into savings for cardholders
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American Express is giving cardmembers one super compelling reason to tweet about promotional offers: instant savings at name brand U.S. merchants. The company has launched a “Tweet your way to savings” program Tuesday to encourage members to sync their AmEx cards with Twitter and tweet special offer hashtags in...
AMEX’s new Twitter integration is “brilliant” marketing
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Mike Dudas, who works on Google Wallet, was so impressed by American Express’s brand new Twitter program that he tweeted: AmEx digital marketing & promotion team is playing a different game than any other card networks or issuers. Brilliant… The new Twitter integration lets American Express cardholder receive special offers by tweeting with...
Virgin America Is Awesome. Except When It's The Opposite Of Awesome.
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I love Virgin America. It’s my airline of choice. If I have any say in the matter, I take them every time. If they don’t fly to a city, I often don’t fly to that city. Best airline experience in the U.S. — bar none. Except when they blow...
Amex Offers Discounts To Customers Who Link Cards, Twitter Accounts
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American Express launched an aggressive and innovative Twitter campaign Tuesday night, allowing customers to link their credit cards to their Twitter handles. In return for promoting offers from American Express and retailers on Twitter, cardholders get steep discounts. In some cases, American Express will seek out influential users in certain...
FAA Admits That It's Going To Rethink Whether You Can Use Kindles & Tablets On Takeoff & Landing
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It's been pretty clear for quite some time that there's no real safety reason why electronics are barred during takeoff and landing on airplanes. Furthermore, there's no legitimate technological reason for not allowing mobile phones on planes either -- that one's more just about keeping other passengers from going into...
In-flight cell service to make Virgin trips 10X more annoying
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“Can you hear me now? Oh, sorry about all that noise, I’m flying!” Prepare to hear conversations like this, as Virgin Atlantic will soon offer in-air cell phone service on flights from London to New York and eventually 10 other routes by the end of 2012. The Telegraph reports...
Meet Sprinklr, the biggest social media management biz you’ve never heard of
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Radian6 has done a great job of making itself known in the social media management space, attracting a $326 million acquisition by Salesforce a year ago. But now it might have to watch its back when it comes to maintaining its largest clients. Meet Sprinklr, the New York-based social...
FAA taking a ‘fresh look’ at the use of personal electronics on planes
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Kindles and iPads have moved into the mainstream, and by the end of 2012 it is predicted that more than 40 million eReaders and 60 million tablets will be owned in the United States. When it comes to traveling, unfortunately, consumers are often forced to use traditional forms of entertainment...
We've Been Waiting For This! Virgin America To Allow In-Flight Cell Phone Use
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Virgin America is preparing to allow passengers to use their cell phones during flights, reports CNET. Flyers will be able to make phone calls, send and receive text messages, check email, and even surf the web. But, you guessed it, the service won't be cheap. Customers will have to pay...
FoundersCard gets a site refresh, adds new deals
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FoundersCard, which is like a members-only club for — you got it — founders, has gone live with a spiffy new website and some new packaging for members that sign up. It’s also added a bunch of new deals to some popular retailers. FoundersCard gives discounts to entrepreneurs who apply...
Virgin Mobile back on track after 16-hour service outage
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After a huge service outage, Virgin America is reporting that its network is up and running once again. Around 18 hours ago, the mobile provider noticed the widespread loss of service and issued a statement saying, “We apologize, but we are currently experiencing a national data and text messaging...
Virgin Group Unveils Tech Support Service, Which Is Funny Because Virgin Atlantic’s Website Still Doesn’t Work
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A Space Age airline with a Dark Ages reservation system. We reported on Virgin America's technical difficulties back in November, after a switch to a new reservation system left some users out on the tarmac. Customers encountered weird glitches when they tried to view their accounts or book a flight,...
Virgin Group Unveils Tech Support Service, Which Is Funny Because Virgin Atlantic’s Website Still Doesn’t Work
Bay Area companies get another nonstop flight to Capitol Hill
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San Francisco is going from zero non-stop flights to Washington National Airport to two non-stops this summer. Virgin America announced today that it will start its service to the airport just a few miles from Capitol Hill on August 14. United started service on the route two weeks ago. Flights...
Twitter's Jack Dorsey Just Took A Lightning-Quick Trip To New York
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We always watch the comings and goings of Twitter chairman and Square CEO Jack Dorsey with great interest. Just last month, he tipped us off to Square's plans to raise a huge new round of funding from a couple of big East Coast mutual-fund companies with an unusual trip to...
British Airways gets snoopy on its passengers
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With one-search access to a lot of our lives on the Internet, we’re at the beginnings of a lot of discussions on what’s acceptable and what’s not when it comes to social media and database usage. Last week, British Airways announced that it would be Googling passenger images to train...
Frequent travelers are starting to see in-flight WiFi as a necessity
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It’s been a little bit more than three years since in-flight WiFi started to really take to the skies, but it’s already becoming an indispensable tool for many travelers. I was at San Francisco airport last Friday waiting for a six-hour flight to New York when the gate agent announced...
Strange Memories on This Nervous Night at SXSW
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Mr. Webb. Rick Webb co-founded The Barbarian Group, a digital ad agency, and is now a writer and angel investor in the tech industry. Like a merchant marine making his annual port of call, SXSW Interactive sails off into the night. We feel vaguely dirty and exhausted, but also fulfilled and edified....
The Difference Between Popularity And Influence Online
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Digital influence is one of the hottest trends in social media and it is also one of the least understood. Like some relationships on Facebook, “it’s complicated.” Klout, PeerIndex, Kred and many others are investing millions of dollars to understand how our social media activity translates into influence. Within...
FAA to revisit the use of certain personal electronics on flights
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Laura J. Brown, deputy assistant administrator for public affairs for the Federal Aviation Administration, told the New York Times the agency will take a “fresh look” at electronics use on planes. Bits Blog writer Nick Bilton called the F.A.A. last week ready to pester them about travelers' inability to...
FoundersCard Adds Discounts For TripIt, LegalZoom, Moo.com & More (+Invites)
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FoundersCard, the service that brings executive-style perks to today’s entrepreneurs has just added a number of new benefits for its members, including a free TripIt pro account (typically worth $49), 15% off LegalZoom (to hire a lawyer online), 15% off and $30 of free credit at GroundLink (an on-demand and ride-later...
FoundersCard Adds Bonobos, Trunk Club & More Airlines To Its Private Membership Club
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FoundersCard, the membership program bringing executive-style perks to entrepreneurs, is rolling out a few more perks today to add to its growing lineup. The company currently offers discounts on a number of products and services, including things like elite status on airlines (5% off Virgin America, 10% off Virgin Atlantic,...
Gogo in-flight internet reaches 9.8Mbps speed on United p.s. flights in 2013
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Starting next year, speedy satellite internet should allow air travelers to obtain broadband-like speeds in the sky, but in the meanwhile United is outfitting thirteen planes with faster Gogo Wi-Fi. Like US Airways and Virgin America before it, United will be using Gogo's latest ATG-4 system, which uses EV-DO...
Video Blogger Sarah Austin launches Pop 17 on MTV’s Next Movie [video]
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With Hollywood making movies about the same story, over and over again, it’s now imperative that we find out how bad (or occasionally good) a movie is before we peel our lazy asses of the Internet and into the movie theatre. Where do we find out what a movie is...
Virgin America site drops Flash to court iPhone
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Virgin America late Tuesday said it has dropped Flash altogether from its website. The change, which quietly took effect Monday, instead just uses newer web technologies like CSS. The airline explained the move as a deliberate gesture towards the iPhone and other handhelds, as the previous dependence on Flash kept...
Virgin America dumps Flash over lack of iPhone support
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Filed under: Internet, iPhone As the smack down between Apple and Adobe continues, Virgin America has dumped Flash from its website because of the lack of iPhone support. Virgin's new website, which launched Monday, replaces Flash with HTML to give users the ability to check in via their iPhones in...
Full Details On Twitter’s Long-Awaited Ad Platform
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Earlier this evening, we broke the news that Twitter was about to launch its new ad platform. The news has just been confirmed: moments ago, the New York Times published a report detailing the new platform, which is officially being called “Promoted Tweets”. Here are the new details outline in...
Twitter's Costolo: Promoted Tweets And The Importance Of 'Resonance'
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With Twitter’s big announcement of how it plans to make money with Promoted Tweets out of the way, the micro-blogging service’s COO Dick Costolo took the stage at the Ad Age Digital Conference to sell the idea. “We needed to launch a platform that went everywhere tweets worked, such...
The Facebook IPO Players Club: Dustin Moskovitz
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They were doing just fine before, but Facebook's biggest minority owners are about to be catapulted into a far more elite bracket. As we ponder what they'll do with with new millions (maybe over $4 billion for Dustin Moskovitz!), here's a look at what got them where they are today.Who...
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