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• 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

• 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

• Peek reveals Twitter-only mobile device

  Strategy Eye - 2009-11-02

  Twitter is launching a specially designed, Twitter-only mobile handset in partnership with mobile messaging service Peek. The TwitterPeek device has a small colour screen and runs on a high-speed wireless data network, over which users can send and receive unlimited tweets. TwitterPeek retails at Amazon.com for USD99 with a...

  Tags: Mobile, Twitter Inc., Mobile Device, TwitterPeek Device, Advertising & Promotion, Business Structures, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Finance, Twitter, Editorial, Amazon.com Inc.

• Microblogging Platform StatusNet Gets $850,000

  PaidContent - 2009-10-29

  Canadian microblogging startup StatusNet has raised $875,000 in a round of seed funding from Montreal Start Up, iNovia Capital and angel investor Oleg Tscheltzoff. StatusNet’s open source platform is used by organizations to set up their own Twitter-like sites, which they can choose to make public or private. The...

  Tags: Platform, StatusNet, Sales Strategy, Open Source, Sales, Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Venture Capital, Social Media, Nanopublishing, Companies, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff

• Chip Conley: Should I Take My Burning Man Pics off Facebook?

  BNET - 2009-10-29

  When hotelier Chip Conley posted pictures from his Burning Man trip on his Facebook page, some of his employees complained that they were inappropriate for a CEO. ...

  Tags: Facebook, Employee, Social Media, Photograph, CEO, Chip, Burning Man, Social Media Policy, Chip Conley, Joie de Vivre, Social Networking Policy, Twitter, as told to Paul Sloan, Chip Conley, as told to Paul Sloan

• Yahoo! jumps on real-time bandwagon without Twitter - Rumour

  Strategy Eye - 2009-10-27

  Yahoo! is reportedly set to launch a real-time search product, but won’t join Google and Microsoft in signing a deal to gain direct access to Twitter’s data. Instead, TechCrunch reports that Yahoo! will link up with OneRiot. The real-time search engine already offers aGoogle plugin which displays real-time results...

  Tags: Twitter Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Search, Twitter, OneRiot, Jasper Jackson, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

• Microsoft signs Facebook and Twitter data deals

  Strategy Eye - 2009-10-21

  Microsoft is teaming up with Twitter and Facebook to incorporate tweets and status updates into its Bing search engine. The incorporation of real-time results into Bing makes Microsoft the first major search engine to embrace what many consider the next leap forward in search. Google has also announced a...

  Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Business Structures, Search, Web 2.0, Finance, Internet, Twitter, Jasper Jackson

• Google also inks search deal with Twitter

  Strategy Eye - 2009-10-21

  Google will now include Twitter posts in its search results in a bid to provide up-to-the-minute user data and compete with Microsoft’s Bing search engine, which is also set to index tweets. The news was revealed on Google’s blog just hours after Microsoft announced at the Web 2.0 conference...

  Tags: Google Inc., Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, Search, Blogging, Internet, Twitter, George Mitton

• Microsoft Reaches Deal To Bring Twitter And Facebook Data To Bing

  PaidContent - 2009-10-21

  Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has reached deals with both Twitter and Facebook to include real-time feeds from both sites in Bing’s results, AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher reports. The Twitter deal had been rumored for several weeks—but the the Facebook deal is a surprise. More to come. by Joseph Tartakoff

  Tags: Facebook, Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Search, Companies, Microsoft, Twitter, Joseph Tartakoff