Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Twitter Will Flood You With Sponsor Offers. Or Not
Memo to Twitter: If you’re really going to be making money with sponsored direct messages, as a New York Times article hints, please make sure it doesn’t get annoying.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Iranians Using Tor to Anonymize Web Use
As the Iranian government continues a cat-and-mouse game of limiting or blocking access to social networking sites, instant messaging, cellphone service and the Internet in general, citizens and onlookers keep developing workarounds to help protesters stay online.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Wired Magazine’s Pitch to New York
As he kicked off the Wired Business Conference on Monday, Wired magazine’s editor in chief, Chris Anderson, started talking about Jell-O.
Monday, June 15, 2009
‘#CNNFail’: Twitterverse Slams Network’s Iran Absence
As the Iranian election aftermath unfolded in Tehran–thousands of demonstrators took to the streets to express their anger at perceived electoral irregularities–an unexpected hashtag began to explode through the Twitterverse: “CNNFail.”
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Microsoft to Discontinue MS Money
Microsoft plans to stop selling Microsoft Money, its venerable, but not market-leading personal finance program, CNET News has learned.
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Study: Young Adults Haven’t Warmed Up to Twitter
While 99 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds have profiles on social networks, only 22 percent use Twitter, according to a new survey from Pace University and the Participatory Media Network.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
When Twitter Met Food Trucks
Friday, May 8, 2009
3 Reasons Why Twitter Will NOT Index the Links You Share (Updated)
Techmeme is on fire this morning with discussion of Rafe Needleman’s CNet post about Twitter’s supposed plans to index the content of links shared over the microblogging service.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Techmeme Founder: WSJ, NYT Are Aggregators
Techmeme is one of the sites that Robert Thomson, managing editor of the The Wall Street Journal, presumably thinks is a “parasite” or “tech tapeworm in the intestines of the Internet.”
The Web site aggregates links to stories. Along with the links is a short description of the news. Thomson and others in the newspaper industry say it’s unfair and unlawful for Web sites to profit from their content without compensating them.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Microsoft’s Search Must Begin in Redmond
Microsoft’s challenge to grow its share of the search business isn’t just a global issue.
Friday, April 3, 2009
Wikia Kills Its Google Killer
Wikia Search, Jimmy Wales’s project that was supposed to put the social into search, is getting closed down today, CNET reports.
Monday, March 23, 2009
What Google Should Learn From Apple
It was touching to see that Douglas Bowman, Google’s visual design leader, chose, in announcing his resignation, to stroll down Steve Wozniak Honesty Avenue.
In a blog post, he summed up his feelings, as all the best designers should, in one simple statement: “I won’t miss a design philosophy that lives or dies strictly by the sword of data.”
He talked of how data was being collected (and one can only wonder what fine, laborious methods are used in the process) to judge the acceptability of a shade of blue, the width of a pixel, or the hair bang length of a brand manager.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Nielsen: Twitter’s Growing Really, Really, Really, Really Fast
A small new survey from Nielsen about the five fastest growing “member community destinations” in the U.S. reveals what we all kind of knew already: Twitter is at the top. From February 2008 to February 2009, it clocked in at a whopping 1,382 percent growth rate. That’s to be expected, considering the amount of press the still-without-a-business-model microblogging service has gotten in recent months.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
The Lessons of ‘Mad Men’ on Twitter
For many fans of the hit TV series “Mad Men,” one of the biggest events of 2008 was the sudden emergence of a number of the show’s characters on Twitter.
At first, it seemed as though whoever was posting regular tweets from within the fictionalized 1960s world of the AMC network show was doing so on behalf of the producers. But as is well known now, they were a group of people who had taken on the task themselves, and who quickly found their project shut down.
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