Mervyn Alamgir on June 7th, 2009

The growth of the mobile technology space both in product innovation and subscriber base has been tremendous over the past decade. It has been a perfect storm of customer demand, products and  infrastructure.
Many of the posts I have written talk directly to the use of mobile technology to break down the wall of simple communication, [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on December 30th, 2008

Attack of the Show recently came out with a list of top 5 Android Apps. If you didn’t have a chance to catch it, it is available on Hulu.com and I have embedded it below.

The five apps mentioned are worthy of being on the top 5 list, but I suppose you have to take into [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on December 18th, 2008

Jeremiah Owyang (@jowyang) asks a very timely question. Many people are commenting on the topic of media outlets breaking embargos (the post that started it, this follow-up post from Brian Solis, and a tweet storm on the subject). As Jeremiah asks, why don’t brands tell the stories themselves? Media and communications are undergoing significant changes in how [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on December 11th, 2008

I was going to write about my experience with Twitter after a couple of weeks of use and some tips on getting started for beginners, but then I ran across this entry from Bert Decker’s blog. This pretty much summarizes what I was going to write about. So now I will cut to the chase and [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on December 10th, 2008

Should we be using social media to communicate to other departments within the company? This is a question I asked myself late last year as the company I was with went through a significant change. Our target customer was changing, the product lines were changing and the customer problem we were solving was changing. That is a [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on December 5th, 2008

The main aspect of social networks that really appeal to me is being able to connect with groups of friends/colleagues and stay updated with what they are doing.  Facebook and LinkedIn are two of the social networks I am a part of but I treat them very differently.
I use facebook to keep up with family [...]

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