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• Is Email Dead?

  BNET - 2009-11-04

  At the Enterprise 2.0 conference in San Francisco, Clara Shih, CEO of Hearsay Labs and author of "The Facebook Era," explains how social web platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, are impacting businesses. She says email is slowly being replaced by social networking applications -- a shift driven by young...

  Tags: Facebook, Social Web, Social Networking, E-mail, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Twitter

• Twitter "Attack" Leaks Over to Facebook, At Least for Some Users [Updated]

  BNET - 2009-08-06

  [UPDATE: As you may have read, Facebook was having its own problems today which were separate from Twitter's. As some of my Facebook friends seemed to be using Facebook just fine, and I couldn't, I wondered if it was because, for many of us, the two platforms have a bridge...

  Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Attack, Social Networking, E-mail, Construction, Manufacturing, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Catharine P. Taylor

• 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

• Who Will Own The Twittersphere?

  BNET - 2009-07-13

  The race is on to see who can best capitalize on the Twitter phenomenon, and the betting's not on Twitter itself. Twitter has already proven that it serves a purpose well beyond "what are you doing now," which early adopters and maybe its founders took literally, and is being used...

  Tags: CoTweet Inc., Twitter, E-mail, Product Marketing, Sales Force Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Sales, Michael Hickins

• Microsoft Ignores Twitter Outlook Complaints

  BNET - 2009-06-25

  Microsoft has seen the fury of the masses and like Atlas, shrugged. A Twitter campaign astroturfed by email marketing campaign vendor Freshview is asking (or is it begging?) Microsoft to reverse course on a key technology decision made for Office 2007 in its next release of Outlook,...

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Outlook 2010, E-mail, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Office, Groupware, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Michael Hickins

• Business Hacks Best of the Week (June 22, 2009)

  BNET - 2009-06-22

  Welcome to National Tell-a-Friend-About-Business-Hacks Week! We've made it really easy to join in the celebration. Just click that E-MAIL icon up above if you want to e-mail a post to a friend or co-worker. Or, click SHARE to spread the word via Facebook, Twitter, Digg, or another social-networking service. ...

  Tags: Apple iPhone, Twitter, E-mail, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Blogging, Online Communications, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Internet, Rick Broida

• Google happy to work with Twitter, says Schmidt

  Strategy Eye - 2009-04-16

  Google CEO Eric Schmidt says Google would be ?happy? to work with micro-blogging platform Twitter to incorporate advertising into the service. Schmidt made the remarks during Google’s Q1 earnings call, in which the company announced increased profits but a slight dip in revenues. ...

  Tags: Google Inc., Eric Schmidt, Twitter, Business Structures, E-mail, Blogging, Financial Accounting, Finance, Online Communications, Internet, George Mitton

• Are You a Twit? | BTalk Australia

  BNET - 2009-03-11

  (8min 44) Have you heard about Twitter? The answer is probably "yes", but are you using it to for your business. Phil Dobbie asks ZDNet news editor Renai LeMay how Twitter can help you with your research and marketing. Follow Phil and Renai on...

  Tags: Twitter, Phil Dobbie, Search, E-mail, Online Communications

• Get Business Hacks Updates on Twitter!

  BNET - 2009-01-27

  Calling all Twitter users! Want to be notified when there's something new and exciting on Business Hacks? Now you can. To subscribe to our feed, just head to our Twitter page and click Follow. That's it! Because we're still field-testing this new feature, it...

  Tags: Twitter, E-mail, Online Communications, Rick Broida

• Replace I Want Sandy with PingMe

  BNET - 2008-12-12

  Oh, Sandy, we hardly knew ye. We're talking about I Want Sandy, of course, the popular reminder service that's shutting down a week from today. What made "her" special was the way you could send a natural-language reminder (such as "Meet DB for lunch at 12:30 on December 19"), and...

  Tags: Twitter, PingMe, E-mail, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Online Communications, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Rick Broida