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• LocalBunny Helps Businesses Manage Twitter Relations with Customers

  BNET - 2009-07-22

  Fact: Twitter has turned into a great marketing tool for businesses savvy enough to leverage it properly. (This despite Dave's shortsighted claims to the contrary.) Of course, there's a Catch-22: The more followers a business attracts, the harder it becomes to manage responses to customers' tweets. And...

  Tags: Twitter, LocalBunny, Deluxe Plan, Keyboards, Marketing Research, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing, Rick Broida

• Twitter Pan, MySpace, Facebook, and Riding the Fad

  BNET - 2009-06-17

  It's been a tough day for MySpace as the company fired nearly 30 percent of its workforce. When it's tough to tell whether the blood on the floors from the axing is flowing as fast as the printer ink as those who remain prepare resumes, the atmosphere is serious. However,...

  Tags: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Printers, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce Management, Payroll Solutions, Hardware, Peripherals, Human Resources, Erik Sherman

• Nambu to put real-time search on desktop

  Strategy Eye - 2009-06-10

  Social messaging startup Nambu is integrating OneRiot’s real-time web search to its desktop app. Nambu provides users with a desktop app that works on Apple operating systems and allows them to track conversations over the web, including inside FriendFeed and Twitter. ...

  Tags: Messaging, Twitter, Nambu, OneRiot Realtime Search Partner Program, Desktops, Instant Messaging, Hardware, Internet, Online Communications, Editorial, Apple Inc.

• Why Blogging Is On The Decline

  BNET - 2009-06-08

  Blogging is in some ways the poster child for Web 2.0, which when you boil it down is an expression that signifies the Web's evolution from a static publishing platform to a communications and collaboration medium. But blogging is now in serious decline, to be replaced by tools from the...

  Tags: Web, Facebook, Blog, EMC Corp., Twitter, Web 2.0, Blogging, Collaboration, Groupware, Storage, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Hardware, Michael Hickins

• Is Twitter Useless After All?

  BNET - 2009-05-29

  I have seen the future of Twitter, and it is Google Wave -- which trumps Tweeting by allowing "the merging of documents, feeds, photos, e-mail, instant messaging, [and] event planning" in real-time. Twitter is many things, I suppose, but one of its highly-touted functions is to give...

  Tags: Twitter, Monitors & Displays, Channel Management, Call Centers, Hardware, Components, Marketing, It Operations, Michael Hickins

• Remotely Shut Down Your PC with TweetMyPC

  BNET - 2009-05-12

  I've never been impressed with Twitter as a micro-blogging site -- I simply don't want to read Rick's witty observations about his lunch -- but even I will admit that it has its uses, like getting tweets from the Mars Rovers.  Now there are even better ways to use Twitter,...

  Tags: PC, Twitter, Desktops, Hardware, Dave Johnson

• Apple to bid USD700m for Twitter – Rumour

  Strategy Eye - 2009-05-04

  Apple is rumoured to be in late-stage negotiations to buy much-hyped micro-blogging service, Twitter, and reportedly wants to complete the deal before Apple’s Worldwide Developers’ Conference in June. The deal would be a blow for Facebook and Microsoft, which have each tried and failed to buy the popular startup....

  Tags: Apple Inc., Twitter, Smart Phones, Balance Sheets, Cellular Phones, Handhelds, Strategy, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Financial Statements, Financial Accounting, Finance, Hardware, Management, George Mitton

• IMshopping gets USD4.7m for shopping on Twitter

  Strategy Eye - 2009-04-29

  IMshopping, a Twitter-based shopping service, has raised USD4.7m in Series A funding from SK Telecom. The company provides users with a mix of recommendation technology and human assistance designed to help them find specific products. Twitter users...

  Tags: Twitter, IMshopping, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Editorial, SK Telecom Co.

• Ten Tips To Make Twitter Work for Your Business

  BNET - 2009-03-29

  Twitter -- a business tool? If our recent Guy to Guy on the business value of social networking is any guide, you'd expect me to dismiss Twitter out of hand. But according to the Small Biz Resource Blog, Apple pioneer and all-around tech guru Guy Kawasaki thinks Twitter is one...

  Tags: Twitter, Social Networking, Web Site Development, Productivity, Monitors & Displays, Web Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Hardware, Components, Dave Johnson

• Track Twitter on Your Calendar with Twistory

  BNET - 2009-02-23

  I recently became everything I've ever hated: I got a Twitter account. I did this not in hopes that people would follow every vacuous thought that pops into my head when I am within reach of my phone. Instead, I'm using Twitter to capture short notes and reminders while I'm...

  Tags: Twitter, Notebooks, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Dave Johnson