RSS TwitterSalesforce.com tech to turn customers' Twittering into useful feedback
News For companies that want to turn all those customer tweets and updates on Twitter and Facebook into something more constructive, Salesforce.com is bringing some new services to its cloud-computing infrastructure. [10 Sep 2009]
Douglas Coupland: "To say the machines have won over people, is like saying people won over people..."
Comment And what of the latest round of web 2.0 upstarts, Facebook, Twitter et al? The question of what's coming next is particularly pertinent for web companies such as Twitter - after all, the faddish nature... [08 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 04.09.09
Round-Up And don't think they can turn to Twitter, Bebo or eBay to get their fix of web 2.0 - those sites are getting slapped with a ban too. It was only last week that the Round-Up was complaining about how much like hard work... [04 Sep 2009]
Time for businesses to open up - or else
Comment Companies such as Twitter, for example, found opening up systems and data to the web - allowing third parties to develop new interfaces and applications on diverse platforms - made their services ever more functional,... [03 Sep 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.08.09
Round-Up In each, the researchers split participants into two groups: those who regularly do a lot of media multitasking (muck about with Facebook, Twitter and instant messaging when they should be working) and those who don't... [28 Aug 2009]
Facebook adds open source guru to its books
News The news started to emerge in various Twitter feeds and personal blog posts on Monday: David Recordon, a Six Apart developer and prominent open-standards advocate, has left the blog software company to take a job at... [26 Aug 2009]
Twitter to charge businesses to tweet
News Twitter has confirmed it will be introducing paid-for business accounts. In an interview with VentureBeat on Thursday, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone elaborated on the company's goal to put out a revenue... [25 Aug 2009]
Can Yahoo! facelift help it ditch the 'peanut butter'?
News Social butterflies can deliver the latest breathless update to their friends right from their inboxes or IM windows, perhaps one day posting directly to networks like Facebook and Twitter without going through a web... [25 Aug 2009]
Facebook, Twitter coming to budget mobiles in emerging markets
News The software, known as OneApp, is due out later this year and should allow people in emerging markets to access services like Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft's Windows Live Messenger using the kinds of phones most often... [25 Aug 2009]
Kids today: Don't fear the Millennials at work
Comment He writes at www.richardleyland.com or follow him on Twitter @leylandrichard In short: Twitter is for oldies, along with newspapers, wires and paying for stuff. After working in schools, Richard Leyland... [24 Aug 2009]
Facebook Fans can now Twitter their updates
News On Thursday night, Facebook announced it's launched its first official Twitter app. In a post on the company blog, Facebook announced that updates to "fan pages" - public profiles for celebrities, brands, organisations,... [24 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 21.08.09
Round-Up Metaphorically shaking the sand from our flipflops, more on the news that 40 per cent of posts on Twitter - aka tweets - can be classified as "pointless babble", as we mentioned last week. So it looks as if in the grand... [21 Aug 2009]
Twitter gearing up to put geolocation in tweets
News Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter, has announced that the service will soon get a new feature in its API: the capability to optionally put geolocation data into tweets. Once Twitter lets developers embed... [21 Aug 2009]
Botnet finds a home on Twitter
News A Twitter account can be used as the command centre for harnessing a "botnet" of virus-infected computers, security firms Arbor Networks and Symantec reported. The account has since been suspended by... [17 Aug 2009]
Twitter: Four per cent 'news', 40 per cent 'pointless babble'
News Just over 40 per cent of posts on Twitter - or tweets - can be classified as "pointless babble", according to a new study from Pear Analytics. Pear Analytics published its investigation, which was conducted through a... [17 Aug 2009]
