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• Twitter Premium Accounts Due By Year's End

  PaidContent - 2009-11-19

  So how’s Twitter going to make any money? One of its biggest fans, British actor and polymath Stephen Fry, gave co-founder Biz Stone one idea when the pair shared a Nesta panel in London on Thursday…“Supposing I was to say to someone: ‘you can have my Twitter identity for...

  Tags: Twitter Inc., Financial Planning, Business Structures, Finance, Companies, Twitter, Patrick Smith

• First Look: Zune, Twitter, Facebook And Last.fm On Xbox

  PaidContent - 2009-11-18

  Four months after announcing the features, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) added social networking and music radio functionality to its Xbox 360 console on Tuesday, along with the first European foray for its Zune brand see earlier reports from Tameka and I. Here are my initial explorations with each new service…Last.fm...

  Tags: Last.fm, Facebook, Twitter Inc., Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Xbox, Game Players, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Entertainment, Gaming, Music, Social Media, Companies, CBS, CBS Interactive, Microsoft, xBox, Twitter, Robert Andrews

• Eight Ways to Ruin Your Social-Media Strategy

  BNET - 2009-11-18

  Like it or not, loads of your customers are yakking away about your business on Twitter, Facebook and similar outlets. So don?t blow it. Mistake 1: Pretend you can do without it. You may have already run into the Graying...

  Tags: Facebook, Conversation, Customer Service, Dell Computer Corp., Twitter Inc., Context Optional, social media, Twitter, YouTube, viral advertising, social marketing., Catharine P. Taylor

• Where Your Customers Are: How Facebook, Twitter and Others Break Down by Age

  BNET - 2009-11-18

  Do your homework before you approach your customers online. Here's how users on the top social media sites broke down by age in August 2009. by Staci Baird

  Tags: Facebook, Twitter Inc., social media, chart, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn, YouTube, viral advertising, social marketing, Staci Baird

• Kodak and TweetPhotos form photo sharing partnership

  Strategy Eye - 2009-11-16

  Kodak is expanding its presence on social media sites by forming a partnership with Twitter service TweetPhotos. The two companies are set to collaborate on projects related to real-time photography and photo sharing on the internet. The company has already released one venture called Event Photostream, a service that...

  Tags: Partnership, Eastman Kodak Co., Social Media, Photo-sharing, Business Structures, Finance, Twitter, Editorial

• Kodak and TweetPhotos form photo-sharing partnership

  Strategy Eye - 2009-11-16

  Kodak is expanding its presence on social media sites by forming a partnership with Twitter service TweetPhotos. The two companies are set to collaborate on projects related to real-time photography and photo sharing on the internet. The company has already released one venture called Event Photostream, a service that...

  Tags: Partnership, Eastman Kodak Co., Social Media, Photo-sharing, Business Structures, Finance, Twitter, Editorial

• Industry Moves Roundup: Twitter; Discovery; CBS Interactive

  PaidContent - 2009-11-11

  —Twitter: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) senior research scientist Utkarsh Srivastava—whose expertise is in building large-scale distributed systems—is joining the microblogging service in an unspecified role, Louis Gray reports. He confirms the move—on Twitter.—Discovery Communications: Todd Zander has been promoted to vice president of digital media distribution, tasked with expanding the...

  Tags: Davenport Co., Twitter Inc., Industry, CBS Interactive Inc., Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Companies, CBS, CBS Interactive, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff

• 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.

• Inside Word: In Defense Of Ads In Twitter

  PaidContent - 2009-11-06

  The Inside Word is a weekly feature that looks at compelling industry debates and discussions unfolding on the blogs of employees at digital-media companies.Blogger: Mark SusterPosition: Partner, GRP PartnersBlog name: Both Sides Of The Table, which features startup adviceBackstory: No one knows what percentage of Tweeters if any would...

  Tags: Advertisement, Microsoft Word, Twitter Inc., Advertising, Features, Inside Word, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff

• Twitter Upgrades Its Search Engine

  PaidContent - 2009-11-06

  After months of saying that improvements were coming to its search engine, Twitter has announced a critical upgrade. In a blog post, Twitter says it has started an experiment that will “show higher quality results for trend queries by returning tweets that are more useful.” No details on how...

  Tags: Search Engine, Twitter Inc., Search, Companies, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff