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Twitter Maturation Continues As They Embrace Developers
As Twitter grows from early adopter curiosity to full-fledged mainstream phenomenon, the company is undergoing a much-anticipated and much-welcomed maturation process, one that comes following the company's highly-visible raise of a significant ventu...
mytweetsense Makes Twitter Relevant, Personal and Mobile
When you follow as many people as I do on Twitter and other social networks, there is clearly the potential to feel as if you are going to miss something if you are not continuously connected. The sheer waterfall of information rushing into your Twit...
Video: LeWeb Twitter Apps Panel via UStream
This morning, I moderated a panel on Twitter Applications, at LeWeb, featuring:Iain Dodsworth, TweetDeckLaura Fitton oneforty Barak Hachamov, My6sense Marco Kaiser, Seesmic Sean McCullough, Ping.fmDaryll McDade, Microsoft Mario Menti, TwitterfeedThe ...
Talking With TweetDeck and Tweetmeme at LeWeb
At LeWeb 2009 here in Paris, France, I participated in a panel on Twitter applications and the Twitter platform, featuring TweetDeck, Seesmic, TwitterFeed, OneForty.com, my6sense, Ping.fm and Microsoft. Following the panel, I sat down with Iain Dodsw...
Fighting Bots With Bots on Twitter, Leveraging SocialToo
Many Twitter users are caught in an odd conundrum - between being open to random connections and being open to a glut of unfocused spam-like bot behavior. While I believe the allure of high follower counts has largely been eroded, thanks due in part ...
Is There a Looming Battle Over OAuth\'s Successor?
The OAuth protocol, used on many popular Web sites and applications to pass your credentials between sites without requiring the entry of your user name and password, including Twitter, is potentially under pressure from a team of techies representin...
Is There a Looming Battle Over OAuth\'s Successor?
The OAuth protocol, used on many popular Web sites and applications to pass your credentials between sites without requiring the entry of your user name and password, including Twitter, is potentially under pressure from a team of techies representin...
Embrace Our Twitter Ad Overlords, Assuming Relevancy
Those of you who have some history with the blog know that I am not a huge fan of advertising. I skip commercials on my TiVo. I don't click on banner ads online. I switch stations when listening to the radio, assuming I am not listening to my ad-free...
Embrace Our Twitter Ad Overlords, Assuming Relevancy
Those of you who have some history with the blog know that I am not a huge fan of advertising. I skip commercials on my TiVo. I don't click on banner ads online. I switch stations when listening to the radio, assuming I am not listening to my ad-free...
Social Networks\' Traffic Stabilizes, Facebook Nears Yahoo!
Facebook Up Slightly, MySpace and Twitter Flat to DownDespite November being nearly half over, the monthly traffic statistics from October have just been released by Compete.com, and it looks like there are no major surprises in the social networking...
Social Networks\' Traffic Stabilizes, Facebook Nears Yahoo!
Facebook Up Slightly, MySpace and Twitter Flat to DownDespite November being nearly half over, the monthly traffic statistics from October have just been released by Compete.com, and it looks like there are no major surprises in the social networking...
Twitter Plucks Data Management Guru from Yahoo!
That Twitter is dealing with massive amounts of data flowing through its servers these days would be an understatement, as the service sees strong growth and significant mindshare. With the company having passed what looks to have been its rockiest s...
Did Twitter Pluck a Data Management Guru from Yahoo!?
That Twitter is dealing with massive amounts of data flowing through its servers these days would be an understatement, as the service sees strong growth and significant mindshare. With the company having passed what looks to have been its rockiest s...
Cadmus Filters Real Time Streams to Reduce Clutter
The more people and blogs you follow on social networks and through RSS, the more likely it is that you are going to see duplicate data, be it via retweets, forwards, or through many of your friends sending the latest viral videos or images. A new pr...
TweetMeme to Soon Offer Individual Channels for Top Links
TweetMeme, the popular site that highlights the hottest links distributed on Twitter, is working on a new feature that will soon be opened up to all users - a dedicated channel that shows the links you have posted to your Twitter account, how often t...
TweetDeck iPhone Update Fail Makes the Day "Manic".
Earlier this morning, Iain Dodsworth, creator of TweetDeck, posted that the day could potentially be "manic". While he cautioned the day's updates would not be list-related, as many updates from his competitors have been over the last week, it was hi...
Brizzly and Seesmic Web Get Into Twitter Lists Game
At this point, it's almost getting easier to see which popular Twitter clients have not yet added Twitter Lists support than it is to track those that have enabled support, as in the last 12 hours, both Brizzly, a product from Thing Labs, and Seesmic...
Listiti Watches Twitter Lists for Keywords and Alerts
Regardless of where you sit in the RSS vs. Twitter debate for information discovery, you know the power of finding out when people are discussing topics of your interest, wherever they do so - be it on blogs, blog comments, social networks or anywher...
TweetMeme Goes Mobile for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry
TweetMeme has rapidly become the most popular and practical default engine for content authors to enable their Web sites and blogs to be forwarded on to Twitter (in the form of a Retweet). The company is now serving more than 100 million Retweet butt...
Seesmic Desktop: First Major Twitter Client With Lists
With Twitter lists becoming the biggest release for the microblogging service in almost a year, the many Twitter clients out there who have significant user bases are rushing to support the new feature. On Friday, I quickly mentioned that TweetDeck h...
TweetDeck Promises to Add Twitter Lists Support Soon
In July of 2008, when TweetDeck launched, it was the first Twitter client to support the ability to group those you follow - so you could see like-minded folks in a single column and ensure you didn't miss their updates. Now that Twitter is rapidly r...
The Blurry Picture of Open APIs, Standards, Data Ownership
Look beyond "real-time" and "social", and you'll easily find another pair of tech buzzwords that everybody wants attached to their product or service - "open" and "standards". Companies are practically falling over one another to show they have embra...
Twitter Snags Platform Manager Josh Elman From Facebook
Twitter has made yet another high profile acquisition to its executive ranks, as tomorrow, Josh Elman joins the microblogging powerhouse after nearly two years as Facebook's Platform Program Manager, gaining a role as one of Twitter's small team of p...
There Is No "Osborne Effect" In Web Services
In the world of technology, practically no story of warning is better known than that of Adam Osborne's ill-fated promise of his next generation of computer models outperforming the current offerings. The story states that the result of his premature...
Twitter Gives Bing Access to the Firehose, Promises More to Come
As previewed in a scoop by All Things Digital's Kara Swisher, Twitter has enabled Microsoft's Bing search engine to have access to the full firehose of all public tweets, adding these real-time elements to the company's data pool. In a post confirmin...
Can Twitter Replace RSS for Sharing the Best of the Web?
On Monday, early adopter and Web provocateur Robert Scoble suggested that my use of Google Reader to share the best of the tech Web each day was antiquated. In fact, he called Reader "a dead product" compared to Twitter, which he believes will grow i...
Hey Bloggers, Step Away from the Twitter for a Second... and Blog
There are a few shiny things here in Vegas that have bloggers' attention. No question about it. There are shows and clothes, lookers and hookers, drinks and winks. But it could be a shiny blue bird, and the light of mobile phones that has many blogge...
Designing the Perfect Twitter Client Is Impossible. Tweetie Is Close.
Given Twitter's prominence, it comes as no surprise that there are many different clients out there. Some are designed to give you a single place to update multiple social networks at once. Others are designed to give you easy access to multiple acco...
Searchtastic Aims To Extend Twitter Search Results With New Engine
Practically everybody is putting their data into Twitter these days. With an increasing velocity of tweets, it has become an escalating challenge to find data from this real-time information archive, made even more difficult by the limitations of the...
Benchmark Capital's Twitter Gets Hacked to Hawk Plasma TVs
Benchmark Capital had a string of profitable exits earlier this summer, culminating in a big day that saw FriendFeed sold to Facebook and SpringSource acquired by VMware on the same day this August. The firm is among the most respected in Silicon Val...
