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- Twitter: because you're holding on to the illusion that other people care about what you're doing.
- Videos 2008-08-11
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- Is Twitter Taking Over From Blogging?
- Blogging is dead. Long live Twitter, says Paul Boutin in a Wired essay. Apparently, "micro-blogging" sites such as Twitter and Facebook make blogging "so 2004". Brevity is now the watchword -- 140 characters is the limit of a Twitter text a tweet. Blogging is cumbersome by comparison....
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- Six Apart buys micro-blogging service Pownce
- Twitter-competitor Pownce is shutting down on December 15, following its acquisition by blogging firm Six Apart. Pownce says users can export their accounts to rival sites such as Six Apart’s Vox service, retaining their messages and media. A number of Pownce users are also expected to migrate to Twitter....
- Articles 2008-12-02
- Six Apart Gobbles Up And Shuts Down Pownce
- Blog tech and advertising company Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging platform Pownce for an undisclosed sum, VB reports. But don't expect Pownce, which lets users broadcast short messages (including videos, photos and mp3s) to be embedded into any of Six Apart's current blogging tools—at least not in its current...
- External links 2008-12-01
- Six Apart Gobbles Up And Shuts Down Pownce
- Blog tech and advertising company Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging platform Pownce for an undisclosed sum, VB reports. But don't expect Pownce, which lets users broadcast short messages (including videos, photos and mp3s) to be embedded into any of Six Apart's current blogging tools—at least not in its current...
- External links 2008-12-01
- Three Great Light Blogging Tools Compared
- Once the service for those serious enough to pay for the privilege to post, TypePad recently released a free "Micro" service. The company made the decision to offer a free product realizing the demand for a platform more formal than Twitter and less formal than Wordpress...
- News items 2009-11-20
- Decoding Social Network Metrics
- Whenever someone releases new web traffic numbers, I get grouchy. Although there are a variety of ways to measure web traffic, few of them are precise. Furthermore, a certain portion of those who visit your site don't matter. Why? Because they are "fly-aways" -- gone within...
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Twitter out to make money
- Correspondents in San Francisco | August 24, 2009MICRO-BLOGGING sensation Twitter says it is making progress on ways to pump cash from the free service.Twitter co-founder Biz Stone had the blogosphere buzzing anew on Friday with talk of generating revenue from business accounts by year's end.Mr Stone said early this year...
- News items 2009-08-23
- Make Sure Twitter Doesn’t Get Anyone Fired
- Even though I'm no fan of Twitter, I'll admit that many companies are relying on the micro-blogging service to communicate with customers. But Twitter, by its very nature, is bound to cause some friction with lumbering, old-school corporate policies. Whether you're tweeting or a manager in charge of the tweeters,...
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Twitter founder rules out takeover
- Twitter co-founder Biz Stone claims the micro-blogging site is not interested in merger or takeover bids, though it is keen to form partnerships with larger companies such as Google, says Twitter co-founder Biz Stone. Stone says the firm is in...
- Articles 2009-03-13
- 8 Tools For Online Reputation Management
- Managing your online reputation has become a must. It is absolutely unthinkable for anyone who wants to make a professional appointment to leave a dodgy photograph on his facebook profile since there are many chances that the person with whom he is about to have an appointment has...
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- Apple to bid USD700m for Twitter – Rumour
- 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....
- Articles 2009-05-04
- Google Doesn't Twitter, But It Will Search It
- Doing what some say it does best, it looks like Google is going to start piggybacking on Twitter, and other micro-blogging services, by introducing real-time search, probably incorporated into the core service itself. This news shouldn't exactly have any of us falling off our chairs; Google, along with the rest...
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Twitter Used to Control Data-Stealing Botnet
- It's been a tough week for Twitter. First DDoS attacks. Now Arbor Networks security researcher Jose Nazario has come across something more troublesome - a botnet using Twitter for its command-and-control. According to Nazario, the botnet uses the micro-blogging service's status messages to communicate to compromised machines. The tweets contain...
- News items 2009-08-13
- Facebook hits back at Aussie website
- Correspondents in Washington | September 04, 2009FACEBOOK has warned that members who buy "friends" from an Australian online marketing company could face banishment from the social network.The Brisbane-based firm, uSocial.net, offered this week to sell a Facebook user 1000 friends for $US177 ($211) and 5000 friends -- the limit imposed...
- News items 2009-09-03
- Mashable's Weekly Internet and Social Media Events Guide
- It's a brand new week, which means it's time for Mashable's guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable's Events section. Is your event not on this list? Contact us and let's establish a media partnership. Mashable's Weekly Social...
- News items 2009-08-24
- Fox Turns To TypePad Bloggers To Hype New Movie, 'Avatar'
- Twentieth Century Fox is going social to promote its upcoming film, AVATAR, by partnering with TypePad owner Six Apart, to launch branded blogs and micro-blogs. AVATAR fans can get branded themes for their blogs, as well as trailers, behind-the-scenes clips, and news updates about the film, which launches in...
- External links 2009-11-18
- More Followup on Google's Vision for the Future of News
- Our posts this week about the ideas that Google executives are advocating for helping news sites build better business plans have stimulated quite a bit of conversation, only a fraction of which appears as "comments" following each of our posts. Many people, for whatever reason, prefer to just send me...
- Blog posts 2008-09-19
- Outside.In Gives Your Neighborhood New Transparency
- As part of our ongoing inquiry into whether "hyperlocal" news will help transform the media business, today I spoke with Mark Josephson, CEO of Outside.in, a New York-based "data and technology platform that empowers hyperlocal media discovery and aggregation." This company uses its own geo-tagging engine to parse incoming feeds...
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- FTC to Probe Bloggers Who Take Money to Hawk Stuff
- The Federal Trade Commission FTC is drawing up guidelines that will allow it to investigate bloggers who promote products, as well as the companies that pay them to do so, when such conflicts of interest are not disclosed to readers. The agency also will investigate any false claims by the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-03
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