http://www.sparkpr.com/blog Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:44:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Take it from those of us who know: An easy way to ruin your relationship with the news media is to send a bad press release. Newsroom fax machines and reporters' inboxes are flooded on a daily basis with press releases from companies, government agencies, non-profit groups, and even ... http://www.sparkpr.com/blog/?p=322 On July 12, Sparksters attended “The Gettie Awards,” GetJar’s first mobile app ceremony, which honored the successes and innovations of the seven best application developers across all major platforms from around the world. The event took place in a ballroom at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, which was beautifully ... http://www.sparkpr.com/blog/?p=317 Week Ending June 20, 2010 What Tongues are Wagging About Ton of AAPL news Shipping 1.2M iPads/Wk 600k pre-orders for iPhone 4 early this week Scoble says TheDealMap and Goby are way more valuable than FourSquare or Gowalla Facebook revenue topped $800M in 2009 Twitter’s first Promoted Trend Topics advertiser is Toy Story 3 Nielsen: Social ... http://www.sparkpr.com/blog/?p=314 What Tongues are Wagging About Tony Blair and Bill Gates were spotted having dinner at Carvallo Point this week. Possible Khosla Ventures meeting? Celebrity Twitter: Boku Muscles up with Andreessen Horowitz to chase mobile payments opportunity. http://wp.me/p4P8c-vW8 from @gigaom – Om Malik R-rated: Yahoo!’s CEO Carol Bartz tells Michael Arrington of TechCrunch to ‘F’ ... http://www.sparkpr.com/blog/?p=308 What Tongues are Wagging About · Just as he hoped to clean up his image, Mark Zuckerberg is to be portrayed in a Hollywood film, called The Social Network, as a ruthless and untrustworthy sex maniac. · The Onion’s latest tech parody takes on ad-supported phones from Google meant to drive down ... http://www.sparkpr.com/blog/?p=305