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• Inside Word: How The Big Search Engines Should Rank Tweets

  PaidContent - 2009-12-18

  The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies.Blogger: Hutch CarpenterPosition: Carpenter is the VP of product at Spigit, which sells social software to businesses; it has raised $14 million in fundingBlog name: I’m...

  Tags: Google Inc., Search Engine, Twitter Inc., Tweets, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Blogging, Microsoft Office, Search, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Features, Inside Word, Companies, Google, Microsoft, Bing, Twitter, Yahoo, Joseph Tartakoff

• Accused Of Being A Copy Cat, Microsoft Suspends Its Twitter-Like Service In China

  PaidContent - 2009-12-15

  Less than a month after Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) launched a microblogging service in China, the company has pulled the product off the market, among rampant accusations that it had blatantly copied a competitor’s own microblogging service. In a statement issued late last night, Microsoft said, “Because questions have been...

  Tags: China, Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intellectual Property, Blogging, Microsoft Windows, Enterprise Software, Research & Development, Business Operations, Internet, Operating Systems, Software, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Microsoft, Twitter, Countries, Asia, Joseph Tartakoff

• Russell Simmons' Global Grind Buys CelebrityTweets.com

  PaidContent - 2009-12-08

  Hip hop entrepreneur Russell Simmons’ Global Grind has purchased CelebrityTweet.com, which aggregates Tweets from celebrities, including Simmons himself. Global Grind features a wide array of coverage geared towards hip hop fans, including videos, a number of celebrity blogs and political news. In a release, it says it will continue...

  Tags: Russell Simmons, Global Grind, Entrepreneurship, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Communications, Corporate Law, Blogging, Management, Investment, Finance, Marketing, Business Operations, Internet, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff

• Google also inks search deal with Twitter

  Strategy Eye - 2009-10-21

  Google will now include Twitter posts in its search results in a bid to provide up-to-the-minute user data and compete with Microsoft’s Bing search engine, which is also set to index tweets. The news was revealed on Google’s blog just hours after Microsoft announced at the Web 2.0 conference...

  Tags: Google Inc., Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Search, Blogging, Internet, Twitter, George Mitton

• Job Search? 4 Simple Steps to Get Your Mojo Back

  BNET - 2009-10-01

  While it's natural to get discouraged looking for a new job today, the longer it takes you to find one, the worse off you'll be. Here are some high-tech and not-so-high-tech ways to reinvigorate your efforts. Make Your...

  Tags: Job, Network, LinkedIn, Job Search, MoneyWatch, Job Seeker, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Recession, Unemployment, Twitter, Facebook, Social Networking, Blogging, Google Analytics, Volunteering, Volunteer Work, Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, Maggie Overfelt

• Tr.im Shuts Down; Is There A Business In URL Shortening?

  PaidContent - 2009-08-10

  In the market for URL shorteners, it helps to have an "in" with Twitter. Shortening service TinyURL has seen its traffic sink since it was replaced by bit.ly as the default URL shortener on Twitter and tr.im has flat out given up. On a post on the tri.m blog...

  Tags: Twitter, Tr.im, Bit.ly, Blogging, Internet, Money, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Joseph Tartakoff

• Twitter Report Card: Anderson Cooper

  PaidContent - 2009-08-05

  Whether you like it or not, Twitter is changing the way people communicate, and digital media and technology companies are eager to harness this new tool. Every week, we'll look at a different Twitterer from the media, entertainment or technology world to see how adept he or she is...

  Tags: Cooper, Twitter, Blogging, Productivity, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Features, Twitter Report Card, Tameka Kee

• Pfizer Plans 100-Strong Twitter Army to Fight "Bad Rap"; Imposter Poses a Problem

  BNET - 2009-07-27

  Pfizer has launched a Twitter account and wants to see an army of 100 execs contributing to its tweet stream. If that happened, it would be reminiscent of an idea floated by a consultant to Johnson & Johnson in 2007. That consultant urged J&J to give all of its 120,000...

  Tags: Consultant, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer Inc., Twitter, Blogging, Internet, Jim Edwards

• Twitter's 101 Primer for Business Users

  BNET - 2009-07-25

  Yesterday, after rereading all of those leaked internal Twitter documents published by TechCrunch recently, I started getting a better grasp of the company's strategy going forward. As we noted yesterday, a newly redesigned home page will be launching soon that should help newcomers, including business people, figure out what this...

  Tags: Twitter, Product Marketing, Blogging, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Marketing, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, David Weir

• Hacker Delivers Mixed Bag of Internal Twitter Docs to Blogger

  BNET - 2009-07-15

  TechCrunch got one of those gifts yesterday that every journalist dreams of -- a cache of 310 internal documents from Twitter that includes business projections, product plans, project pitches -- and also personal information about company employees, including co-founder Evan Williams and his wife. Thus, this is...

  Tags: Document, Journalist, Hacker, Twitter, Blogger, Michal Arrington, Internet, Hacking, Blogging, Branding, Security, Marketing, David Weir