Micro-blogging site, Twitter, has raised an undisclosed amount of Series C funding. The new investment comes from Spark Capital and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' investment firm, Bezos Expeditions. Return investors Union Square Ventures and Tokyo-based Digital Garage also added to the round, while Spark Capital's Bijan Sabet joins the...
Jupiter Research predicts that 25 percent of the world's population, or 1.8 billion people, will be online within the next four years. The hottest growth markets are China, India, Brazil and Russia. Friendfeed has quickly arisen to challenge Twitter by exploiting a glitch whereby the "reply" feature...
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone shot down the concept of a paid model for the messaging service and reiterated that the company will get its infrastructure right. In an interview with Jennifer Leggio, our new addition to ZDNet, Stone dismissed the suggestion that Twitter use a pay model...
When the recent deadly earthquake struck China, the first news about it broke on Twitter. Twitter? Okay, so this isn't the news cycle your grandmother experienced, or even what your older brother knew a few years back. Interactive digital technologies are placing the equivalent of the old-time...
Twitter has received $15 million in venture funding, according to Om Malik. Now the fun really begins: Twitter needs to change its architecture on the fly. Om reports that the latest round means that Twitter has raised about $20 million in total VC backing. ...
Twitter is Something Else You Should Know AboutYou finally drank the Kool-AidSo it's safe to assume that Twitter paid you to do this post. Twitter is an interesting concept but unless you want text messages telling you that so-and-so just ate oatmeal for breakfast, it's a juvenile waste of time...
Twitter has answered a burning question in the development community: Will Ruby on Rails stay as it overhauls its infrastructure? The answer: Ruby stays, but Twitter may diversify in some areas. Ruby on Rails has been tarnished a bit by Twitter's outages, but in a Q&A on...
What do Dell, Panasonic, Hormel, H&R Block and Zappos.com have in common? They are all actively monitoring what's being said about them on Twitter, the micro-blogging site where people post very short bursts of opinion, information and other marginalia. If these companies have figured out Twitter, it's...
FuelFrog is a nifty little app that allows you to keep track of your driving, your fuel economy, and your gas expenses. It's no more than a tricked-out excel page, really, except for one killer feature: it's integrated with Twitter. That means that whenever you hit the gas station, you...
Just What the Heck is Twitter, Anyway?Best Twitter Real World UsesSo far I've found two good real world uses for Twitter:--a local pizza place that makes only one kind of pizza per day announces the toppings via Twitter and I get it as an SMS message. Sounds fairly trivial,...
Steve Gillmor recently blogged about Twitter as earthshaker, calling it a communications platform that will blow right past everything except platforms that allow it to dominate. I wish he would've limited his post to 140 words (we won't force a blogger to use only 140 characters). ...
Twitter.com, the site that lets users answer the question "What are you up to?," recently announced that it had received an undisclosed amount of investment from Union Square Ventures. The site has also received funding from other investors such as Marc Andreesen. A internet start-up attracting investors...
iOnce, the first free personal Internet assistant, for the iPhone being downloaded by over 10,000 users a day PALO ALTO, Calif., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Pageonce, the first Personal Internet Assistant, today released initial download numbers for its iOnce mobile application for the iPhone and iPod touch....
The Career Exposure Network Recommends Five Best Practices PORTLAND, Ore. -- The rise in use of social networking technology to communicate with friends and build networks is having a negative impact on job seekers, according to the The Career Exposure Network, the leading source of niche job sites...
First Time Mobile Content Can Be Shared via Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Google, friendfeed, digg, reddit, and del.icio.us NEW YORK -- washingtonpost.com, the award-winning news and information Web site, has launched an optimized version of the site for iPhone users. Powered by Crisp Wireless (www.crispwireless.com), the leader in monetizing...
Greensboro Design Firm Releases Software For iPhone[TM] And iPod touch[TM] GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The Iconfactory, a Greensboro graphics and interface design firm, today announced the immediate release of Twitterrific, its new social networking application, will be available from the Apple App Store at launch on July 10. Twitterrific...
Brian Watkins, PR Manager of Social Media at Omniture, Leads Utah Technology Council UTC Clinic on Adapting to and Implementing a Successful Social Media Strategy SALT LAKE CITY -- Twitter, Facebook and FriendFeed are just a few of the tactics discussed at a recent Utah Technology Council UTC...
Pringo, the leader in empowering onlinecommunities, has announced that the latest versions of its socialnetworking solutions will include micro-blogging features. This marks thefirst white label social networking platform which allows customers toemploy Twitter-like functionality. Micro-blogging merges the one-to-many broadcast model of blogging with animmersive network model of a social network....
CrunchBar Community Toolbar Syndicates New TechCrunch Content and other Valuable Services such as Twitter, YouTube and Flickr Gadgets SAN FRANCISCO -- Conduit, a leading provider of website syndication solutions for web publishers, and TechCrunch, a leading technology blog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and...
From Facebook to Twitter, millions of us are revealing personal details to the online world. And millions more are finding that, like it or not, the web knows our secrets anyway. But if keeping ourselves to ourselves kept people apart, couldn't this ocean of digital intimacy bring us together? By...
