"My personal opinion is that [insert favorite giant financial services company] will disappear much sooner than most people think. At the senior level each of those organizations is a band of ambitious, self-interested people who currently think their best option is to stay within the machine that has made them so prosperous. It won't take many more examples of refugees-made-good for most of those corporate warriors to realise they can make more money outside the garden."
- Dominic Sayers
"And of course you are right. But surely the same could be said of the other evildoers? In the end they have all gone over to the dark side. Perhaps Google deserves some credit for having started out with good intentions and having hung on for longer than most."
- Dominic Sayers
"Maybe Google is being "forced" to put up its own walled garden, although it doesn't appear to be kicking too hard against the traces in doing so. I have to agree with Jonah Stein and Brian S Hall that your original post sounds curiously old fashioned. Google as the defender of freedom? Get with it, grandad."
- Dominic Sayers
"I've never used Hootsuite so I can't comment on that. In Tweetdeck, your tweets will be posted to whichever channels are selected at the top (the "From:" area). If you don't want a tweet to go to LinkedIn just make sure your LinkedIn account is not selected when you post it. It's also possible that your LinkedIn account is "listening" to your tweets. To check this, in LinkedIn hover on your name at the top right then choose Settings. You will see a link Manage Your Twitter Settings. If you click this then you can set LinkedIn to only repeat tweets that have #in in them."
- Dominic Sayers