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• Twitter and LinkedIn sign deal to sync status updates

  Strategy Eye - 2009-11-09

  LinkedIn and Twitter are rolling out an update that lets users post status messages across both social networking platforms. The move follows two recent partnership deals from Twitter, signed with Google and Microsoft’s Bing, and promises to give LinkedIn's business-focused social network a substantial boost in traffic. ...

  Tags: Twitter Inc., LinkedIn, Commentators, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Facebook, Twitter, Andrew McDonald, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

• 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

• 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

• The Year Of Tweeting Dangerously

  BNET - 2009-08-14

  It's been a tough few months for Twitter and its users, as the social network service has been downed by several outages in recent weeks, dismissed as irrelevant by David Letterman and been used as the basis for a lawsuit by a landlord. But the biggest danger...

  Tags: Twitter, Social Networking, Operational Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Finance, Michael Hickins

• Facebook Goes After Twitter With Revamped Search Service

  PaidContent - 2009-08-11

  After nearly two months of testing, Facebook is beginning to roll out a search service that will make the social network a true competitor in the real-time search market. Users who enter a query will now be able to find status updates, photos, links, and videos. Previously, they could...

  Tags: Facebook, Search Technology, Twitter, Results, Search, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Social Media, Companies, Joseph Tartakoff

• 6 Reasons Why Twitter is the Next Friendster

  BNET - 2009-08-07

  The Twitter outage yesterday would have caused much uproar on the service had anyone been able to complain about it. Those in the media, frequently heavy users themselves (I include myself: @ErikSherman), poured on about the long incident. But I think that this was another in a list of prompts...

  Tags: Friendster Inc., Twitter, Social Networking, Strategy, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Management, Erik Sherman

• The Social Networking Outage: The Aftermath

  PaidContent - 2009-08-06

  Twitter is finally back up, as is Facebook—and some details are emerging about this morning's cyber attacks:—Some third-party Twitter applications took longer to come back online than Twitter. For instance, Sawhorse Media, which runs Tweet aggregating sites, such as Muck Rack and Venture Maven, only began surfacing Tweets again...

  Tags: Network, Outage, Twitter, Social Networking, Internet, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Joseph Tartakoff, Google Inc.

• The Social Networking Outage: The Aftermath

  PaidContent - 2009-08-06

  Twitter is finally back up, as is Facebook—and some details are emerging about this morning's cyber attacks:—Some third-party Twitter applications took longer to come back online than Twitter. For instance, Sawhorse Media, which runs Tweet aggregating sites, such as Muck Rack and Venture Maven, only began surfacing Tweets again...

  Tags: Network, Outage, Twitter, Social Networking, Internet, Security, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Joseph Tartakoff, Google Inc.

• 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

• Doing Business on Facebook: What Are the Risks?

  BNET - 2009-08-05

  At the Always On Summit at Stanford University, business executives discuss the risks involved in developing applications and businesses on social networks with proprietary platforms. Panelists include Gerry Campbell, CEO of Collecta; Max Ventilla, CEO of Aardvark; Shervin Pishevar, CEO of Social Gaming Network; and moderator Bambi Francisco, CEO of...

  Tags: Risk, Facebook, CEO, Strategy, Social Networking, Security, Management, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Twitter