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Twitter unveils official retweet API
News The development team at Twitter has released a mockup of its forthcoming "retweet API" - basically, the first formal way that Twitter has baked retweets, the copying and attribution of other... [21 Sep 2009]
Windows 7 for £30: Cheap deal for cash-strapped students
News In a Twitter posting, Microsoft said US students will be able to get the software for $30. Microsoft plans to offer a substantial discount for university students who want to pick up a copy of Windows 7. [18 Sep 2009]
Photos: Motorola's first Android device
Photo MotoBlur is an app and service that syncs information from all the various connections, such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and personal and work email accounts, and automatically streams updates to the homescreen. [14 Sep 2009]
Twitter: 'Your tweets belong to you, not to Twitter'
News Twitter posted changes to its terms of service on Thursday, assuring users that they own their tweets while leaving "the door open for advertising" opportunities. The revisions more appropriately reflect the nature of... [11 Sep 2009]
Back @ you, Twitter: Facebook adopts 'at links' tagging
News The move is clearly inspired by the popularity of Twitter's "@-replies". This is yet another sign that Facebook is gradually encroaching upon Twitter's territory in its attempt to own the web's trove of... [11 Sep 2009]
Motorola joins the Android Cliq with T-Mobile device
News As discussed in the keynote, MotoBlur syncs information from different sources, such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and personal and work email accounts, and automatically streams updates to the homescreen. [11 Sep 2009]
Salesforce.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]
