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How the cloud is swallowing your comms
News In related news, ISP TalkTalk is predicting email could die out as younger internet users develop a preference for shorter-style messages such as tweets and IM. Unified communications is migrating to the cloud, new... [24 Nov 2009]
Salesforce.com plans social networking for business
News Chatter is also integrated with Twitter so users can stream tweets that are relevant to their areas of interest to their Chatter feed. Salesforce.com has unveiled a technology that it says will bring the functionality of... [19 Nov 2009]
Digital Dilemmas: Should your business be on Twitter?
Comment Tweets can be replied to by other Twits so dialogue is an integral part of Twittering, albeit one with less room for waffle than usual. Behind a padlock no one can read your organisation's apologetic... [16 Nov 2009]
Tweets to turn up on LinkedIn thanks to status-sharing deal
News Microblogging phenomenon Twitter and business networking site LinkedIn have announced a deal to share status updates. In the coming days, LinkedIn users will be able to have their LinkedIn status updates appear on Twitter using a new... [10 Nov 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Augmented reality
Cheat Sheet There are plenty of other AR apps making a splash too - whether it's helping users find a good restaurant nearby, or guiding them to the nearest bank or transport hub, or even overlaying Twitter users' tweets onto the... [27 Oct 2009]
Twitter puts real-time tweets in Google search
News The news follows an earlier announcement by Microsoft of a deal to index tweets in its own search engine Bing. Details of how the tweets will be displayed have yet to be announced. Real-time... [22 Oct 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 16.10.09
Round-Up While this might save some people from email-related blunders, the digitally accident prone among you should still be able to find plenty of ways of embarrassing yourselves with texts, instant messaging and tweets… [16 Oct 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. For example, your tweets belong to you,... [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]
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 geo into... [21 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. Coming in second was "conversational", which the company says makes up 37.55... [17 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.08.09
Round-Up The analysts recorded 2,000 tweets submitted in the US over a short period of time and dropped them into six boxes: news, spam, self-promotion, conversational tweets, pass-alongs (retweets and the like)... [14 Aug 2009]
Twitter blackout confirmed as denial-of-service attack
News Twitter was inaccessible for several hours on Thursday, followed by a period of slowness and sporadic timeouts, and more outright downtime. The microblogging site is blaming an "ongoing" denial-of-service (DoS) attack but has not said... [06 Aug 2009]
Twitter's malware filter has 'disappointing results', say security experts
News He noted that the site also allowed tweets containing links to several known malicious sites listed in Stopbadware's database, which has identified more than 380,000 sites identified as unsafe. Twitter's new malware... [04 Aug 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 31.07.09
Round-Up Others have already done the maths - as The Guardian points out, the 5,382 word document comprises of 36,125 characters with spaces, which translates into 259 tweets. Probably a lot more informative than most... [31 Jul 2009]
