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The Weekly Round-Up: 03.07.09
Round-Up The BBC coverage also included aggregated Twitter feeds and iPhone experiments, while Aunty integrated its Glastonbury coverage more closely with its new digital video system so content could be more easily formatted for... [03 Jul 2009]
iPhone 3.0, holograms and the shed birthplace of Silicon Valley
Photo Alternatives to Google's search engine were explored in this June photo story, including Microsoft's latest search effort Bing, Twitter and others. June saw plenty of activity on the hardware and software fronts -... [03 Jul 2009]
More privacy choices in Facebook revamp
News Making content available publicly will bring Facebook better in line with the thirst for real-time, searchable mass information that Twitter has captured so effectively thus far. Revamped privacy settings are coming soon... [02 Jul 2009]
Bing jumps on Twitter-mania with tweet index
News Microsoft is trying to get a leg up in the real-time search wars by adding Twitter messages to search results. The software company's recently launched Bing will now surface results for certain celebrities when users... [02 Jul 2009]
How much SEO is too much?
Comment The answers are tools already in the armoury of marketers such as email newsletters, discussion groups, affiliate programmes, newsfeeds and micro-blogging tools such as Twitter. You want your website to be noticed - but... [01 Jul 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Iran, tweets and e-democracy
Comment But it has been blogs and Twitter that have proved the more interesting, informative and up-to-date. Compiled at the IoD in London and dispatched to silicon.com via a free wi-fi service on the same day [29 Jun 2009]
Naked CIO: Should you monitor staff?
Comment These policies should be reviewed and updated regularly to include evolving technologies such as social networking, Twitter and mobile communications. Keeping watch over employees' online activities can be a slippery... [29 Jun 2009]
Glastonbury: A festival of iPhone blogging and wireless webcams
News The website itself includes an aggregation of Twitter feeds from various BBC presenters and journalists using platforms such as TweetDeck and Twitterfeed. The BBC is using the latest online technology to boost its... [25 Jun 2009]
HTC unveils latest Android mobile
News A dedicated search button on the phone provides a more contextual search, looking through not only your contact list and email but also Twitter and other areas of the device. At a press event in London on Wednesday, HTC... [25 Jun 2009]
Game, set, match for IBM Android app
News The application, which runs on Google's Android operating system, superimposes real-time statistics and updates from social networking site Twitter, including comments from players, onto a video feed from a handset's... [23 Jun 2009]
The top 10 alternatives to Google search
Photo Biz Stone and the other creators of Twitter have tapped into the potential use of the site as a search engine able to deliver information almost instantaneously, adding a trending topics panel to... [16 Jun 2009]
Badges of honour for Twitter's big boys
News Twitter has launched the early beta phase of its "verified accounts" programme, a background-check for celebrities and other prominent users of the service to weed out impersonators and fake accounts. [15 Jun 2009]
Dell tweets its way to $3m in sales
News Social media company Twitter is struggling to craft a profitable business model but the web-based service has helped Dell chalk up millions of dollars in sales. Dell said on Thursday it has raked in more than $3m from... [12 Jun 2009]
Twitter's fake tweeters to be unmasked
News Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has revealed the company is to start experimenting this summer with a beta preview of a feature, rumoured for some time, called "Verified Accounts". Twitter's Terms of... [08 Jun 2009]
Start-ups ditched as companies fight the crunch
News In good times, companies acquire; in bad times, they divest," said Todd Dagres, a venture capitalist whose firm Spark Capital funded microblogging site Twitter. Add to that pushy venture capitalists waiting to foist... [08 Jun 2009]
