Twitter Business Center : What Is It And How It Works
Posted on May 11th, 2010 | 0 CommentsTwitter has rolled out its newest product : Twitter Business Center that will provide businesses with additional tools to interact with their customers via Twitter. A handful of businesses have reported to have received an email from Twitter that reads, “Congrats! Your account has been invited to participate in testing one of Twitter’s newest business-centric [...]
How Twitter’s “Embed This Tweet” Works
Posted on May 4th, 2010 | 2 CommentsYesterday Twitter announced the imminent launch of a new ‘Embed this tweet‘ feature that will allow bloggers to embed tweets in much the same way as they embed videos from YouTube or other websites. So how will this work? Unlike the other embed codes where an iFrame script is generated, Twitter’s ‘Embed this tweet‘ features [...]
Google To Patent Online Promotions Via Status Messages
Posted on April 10th, 2010 | 7 CommentsWebsites asking new users to “spread the word” by logging into their email accounts is not exactly new. Of late, it is not very uncommon to see the same thing happen with social networks. However, ‘The Mechanical Zoo’, the parent company of Aardvark – the social search engine that was recently acquired by Google has [...]
Blackberry Twitter Client v1.0.0.37 Launch Delayed Till July
Posted on April 2nd, 2010 | 0 CommentsBlackberry focused blogs have been reporting a lot of interesting news on the upcoming Twitter client for the Blackberry platform. Folks at Crackberry seem to have got hold of a few screenshots of the new version 1.0.0.37 that is right now in private beta. While the exact launch date of the Blackberry Twitter client is [...]
Bing Quick Tabs To Help Organizing Search Results Easier
Posted on March 26th, 2010 | 0 CommentsMicrosoft has revealed some upcoming upgrades on its Bing Search engine at the Search Engine Strategies forum in NYC recently. These upgrades are aimed at making the website a better “decision engine” – a phrase that Microsoft coined to help them be number one in an industry heavily dominated by Google. One of the important [...]
Blackberry Official Twitter Client Launch
Posted on March 25th, 2010 | 0 CommentsFew weeks ago, Twitter launched their official Twitter client for Blackberry users in beta. Appears that the initial test run has been successful. Folks at Crackberry have written in that the official Twitter client for Blackberry will publicly launch on March 31 – that’s less than a week from now. Kevin from Crackberry writes, “After [...]
Microsoft OfficeTalk Microblogging Service Takes On Twitter, Yammer
Posted on March 24th, 2010 | 0 CommentsMicrosoft has been working on an enterprise microblogging service called OfficeTalk that will network you with your colleagues for strictly corporate discussions. While the service is indeed inspired by Twitter, the service, when it launches, can be more of a threat to Yammer – a Twitter-like service for enterprises. OfficeTalk is being developed by Microsoft’s [...]
Twitter Advertising Model To Be Rolled Out Next Month
Posted on March 16th, 2010 | 0 CommentsThere was a lot of anticipation over Evan Williams’ keynote at the South BySouthwest Interactive conference yesterday. However, while there were interesting revelations regarding Twitter’s new @Everywhere announcement, nothing was revealed about the thing everyone wants to know – How Twitter finally plans to make money? Now, it appears that Twitter’s ad monetization model could [...]
Social Gmail Not Just About Sharing Status Messages
Posted on February 9th, 2010 | 2 CommentsGoogle is likely to make an announcement regarding “social services” in a few hours. The blogosphere is already abuzz with rumors about Gmail, by letting people share links and messages can be a Twitter killer. If the rumors doing the rounds are to be believed, it would simply mean assorting all the GTalk status messages [...]