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• Twitter Speaks: How to Save Newspapers

  BNET - 2009-08-16

  I've been eagerly awaiting news of the world's first novel written over Twitter, in 140-character bursts, to be read backwards in time. You can bet it's coming, but until then, check this new non-fiction book out. In "The World According to Twitter," by New York Times columnist David Pogue, there...

  Tags: Twitter, Zephoria, Internet, David Weir

• Twitter's Real-Time Collective Mood Index

  BNET - 2009-08-12

  We have a little bit of everything out here in California; once we even had a statewide "California Task Force to Promote Self Esteem..." and other values, which is what sprang to mind upon reading about those two University of Vermont statiticians who consider Twitter a "a hedonimeter," a device...

  Tags: Twitter, Entrepreneurship, Management, David Weir

• What Does the NFL Have in Common With Iran's Clerics?

  BNET - 2009-08-02

  The guys who run the National Football League NFL are learning the same lesson that the guys who run Iran had to learn earlier this year -- that maintaining an authoritarian grip on power is difficult in this age of social media. "With Twitter's Arrival, NFL...

  Tags: NFL, Twitter, Team Management, Games, Management, Personal Technology, David Weir

• New Twitter Home Page a Good Start

  BNET - 2009-07-30

  Right on schedule, Twitter launched its new home page this week, though you would not necessarily have known that if you are a regular visitor. Log out from your account, however, and and -- presto! -- there it is. You can evaluate whether this addresses the issue Biz Stone...

  Tags: Twitter, E-mail, Online Communications, David Weir

• 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

• Twitter to Launch Redesigned Home Page (Updated)

  BNET - 2009-07-24

  (Update: I received this note from Biz Stone at Twitter this morning, confirming that the new home page described below is under construction: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Biz Stone wrote: Hi David, We're still working on it and probably...

  Tags: Twitter, Channel Management, Marketing, David Weir

• Google's Increasing Integration With Twitter

  BNET - 2009-07-20

  One thing quite clear from that cache of internal Twitter documents leaked to TechCrunch last week is that the micro-blogging service has been holding ongoing talks with Google about the ways the two companies might work more closely together. It's also evident that Google is taking its...

  Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Google AdWords, Twitter, Integration, David Weir

• Experts: Twitter is the Game-Changer

  BNET - 2009-07-16

  Pasadena, CA. Earlier today, during a meeting in Silicon Valley, I spoke with two exceptionally talented executives, both of whom have had long, successful careers with tech/media companies big and small, and both of whom have been extremely active online since the earliest days of the web. One is...

  Tags: Twitter, Internet, Channel Management, Strategy, Marketing, Management, 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

• Compete: Twitter.com Now 1.5X as Big as NYTimes.com

  BNET - 2009-07-09

  June was a big month in the news biz, headlined by the rebellion in Iran and the death of Michael Jackson, which in turn meant it was a good traffic month at major news sites. After months of declines, The New York Times saw its web traffic grow by 3.45...

  Tags: New York Times Co., Twitter, CNN, Financial Planning, Finance, David Weir