Tuesday Signal: Brand Power!

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It’s all about the power of brands today, as I drag myself to the monitor after a long day of Google’s Zeitgeist, with more coming in the morning. Brands are arbiters of consumer relationships to value, and today Wal-Mart and Amex remind us how…to the links….

Wal-Mart introduces wireless plan under own brand (AP) If the company wanted to, it could pretty much own the wireless business.

Google’s Android to be world No. 2 in 2010 (Reuters) And the no. 1 ain’t Apple, folks.

Why Twitter’s t.co is a game changer (ORR) Good analysis of the power of Twitter in the middle of the conversation.

A Tech World That Centers on the User (NYT) I dunno, yes, and yes. But then, there feels to me something missing from all this. I wish I had time to declare what it is. It’s on the tip of my keyboard…

The Facebook Reckoning (Anil Dash) Interesting perspective…”the way we can all express ourselves on Facebook today is literally constrained by the limits of what Mark Zuckerberg can see.”

Amazon Now Accepts American Express Reward Points For Purchases (TC) Expect a lot more of this in the future…

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