Twitter

Despite me ripping on Yahoo as of late, I am among the first to admit that Yahoo does news vastly better than Google and Bing. They just do, no contest. I just prefer the way it is presented much better than with the other guys.
Where things get sticky however is the “news” of the news [...]

So what is with the cooperation between Twitter and LinkedIn. At its core, it does make sense. After all, both are used for networking and can be used effectively by professionals across the globe. What remains unclear, is just how effective this marriage of the two services can actually be?
Then there is the matter of [...]

Generally I am not someone to get too excited about the idea of yet another Web 2.0 company piggybacking on Twitter’s success. But I am feeling like there may be cause for Topsy to get a pass on this.
For me personally, I find that Topsy provides an interesting way to track the success of individual [...]

Yes, because clearly the solution to my search queries are going to come from the mindless updates from Facebook. Really? Is this a worthy addition to Bing’s otherwise usable search functionality.
I would point out that the same thing applies to Twitter as well. A great way to communicate, but there is no way that I [...]

I think that by now, we are fully aware that even protected Tweets, are not all that protected. And as this article demonstrates, it sure seems like anything we Tweet these days takes only a small amount of time to become public record.
If anything, the above article should prove to be a reminder that even [...]

Clearly it’s a good time to be a Web 2.0 CEO. While countless others deal with not being able to make money due to hurdles with the economy, others such as Twitter’s CEO seems completely disinterested with the idea of making up a sustainable fund to keep their company in the black.
Clearly living on kool-aid [...]

Honestly, I’ve never really felt like the various startups out there trying to work around Twitter’s content were really worth my time. Sure, some of them provide the Twitter content we are looking for in a format that works. But others are just in the game for a chance to tap some VC capital.
As for [...]

Based on what I have been reading in this article, it seems pretty clear to me that social media has got to be a massive pain for China’s censors. Imagine trying to censor on Twitter or Facebook posts in real time? Honestly am not convinced this is possible, but I might be wrong. Perhaps China [...]

I believe that Twitter waiting on including advertising is a good thing. Not because there is anything wrong with ads, rather they are making strides to not become the cesspool of off-topic advertising we see over at Facebook, Digg among other Web 2.0 sites.
Honestly, I believe Twitter taking their time with monetizing their efforts will [...]

I definitely have some mixed feeling about the idea of robots roaming around over Twitter. As it is, we already have a significant spam problem there, so I can see the temptation for abuse there.
Despite these concerns, there are also some legitimate uses for tools such as TweetBots. The tool, when used effectively translates into [...]

I guess if we say it enough it will come true. According to this recent post over at Mashable, teens don’t really use Twitter all that much. And while I am not in a position to say yes or no to this, I think there is likely some truth to this. Think about it. Kids [...]

This report on just who is using Twitter these days really caught me off guard. While there is really no question that kids are generally more drawn to Facebook and MySpace, I was surprised to read this article stating that kids were avoiding Twitter as they felt it to be less safe?
Seriously, how in the [...]

It never ceases to amaze me just how the Better Business Bureau is able to point out the obvious with such vigor. I mean, they are just now figuring out that there has been a serious problem with money making schemes on Twitter for sometime now.
Still, it is worth noting that in this case the [...]

It’s something that I for one, am finding of interest. It seems that due to the issue of faked Twitter accounts, often used by sly impersonators, Twitter has dealt with the problem by allowing some elite users to claim their identities before someone else does.
What makes this all the more interesting, is that this claim [...]

If there is one thing that drives me nuts, it is the belief that real time search is all that it’s cracked up to be. Let me spell this out for you right now. If you are data mining, looking for a how to, directions, etc. Then clearly this real time search stuff found on [...]

Twitter spam is without a doubt, the latest in what some might refer to as forms of comment spam. Worse however, is when this spam becomes a trending topic within Twitter itself. This can be quite annoying, especially if happen to see the spam trending during some kind of crisis like an international incident or [...]

So real time search has come to Bing it would seem. Clearly, this is not going to well for Google I imagine. Yet as this article shows, there is indeed a place for Tweets from Twitter along side of more static sources such as blogs and web pages. Honestly, think Microsoft might be onto something [...]

I was reading this article of Robert’s today and for the first time in awhile, discovered that he and I agreed on something! Scoble is of the opinion that Twitter has little value in the long-term value arena. I could not agree more.
More over, I would add that the idea of using Twitter as a [...]

A UK furniture firm known as Habitat ended up in some deeply troubling PR trouble all due to one intern not being supervised well. Apparently the intern was spamming Twitter with off-topic hash tags that related to the Iran elections, amongst other stuff such as the iPhone along with anything else that was popular at [...]

When I first heard about Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com talking about how everything with computing will look like Twitter, I thought surely I must be misreading something someplace? Alas, I was not misreading anything and he was serious in stating that real time search results is where things are at.
Now I might be willing to agree [...]