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Salesforce Shows Off Chatter: Twitter For Corporations
Salesforce is getting into the "real-time" niche, too. Today the company unveiled Chatter, a social tool for corporations. Integrating heavily into Salesforce.com software, Chatter shows real-time activity feeds from across its suite of customer

The Next Twitter: Pay Attention To Hot Potato, A New 'Real-Time' Startup
The hot story in tech right now is "real-time," thanks to Twitter and Facebook, so you're going to hear a lot of noise over the next few years about "real-time" tech startups. Most of them will be useless and will flame out. But here's one that we

Of Twitter, Plagiarism and Online Journalism
In the first, the Journal Inquirer of Manchester, a family-owned paper based outside of Hartford, Conn., has filed suit against the Hartford Courant, accusing the Tribune Co. paper--the biggest in Connecticut--of lifting stories from the Journal Inquirer

Superior Social Media Strategy in Six Steps: How PR Can Transform Company Blogs Into New Digital Hubs That Drive Reach and ROI
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Why Pharma Doesn't Twitter
Some 60% of Americans say that when they need medical information, they turn to the Internet. At least half the group uses social networks to consult one another on symptoms, diagnoses, and treatments, according to surveys on Web behavior. Pharmaceutical

Superior Social Media Strategy in Six Steps: How PR Can Transform Company Blogs Into New Digital Hubs That Drive Reach and ROI
Source: Bulldog Reporter's PR University Debbie Weil, Social Media Consultant, Author, 'The Corporate Blogging Book' This exclusive PR University webinar takes place on Thursday, December 3, at 1PM EST (noon CST, 11AM MST; 10AM PST). The presenters are:

Superior Social Media Strategy in Six Steps: How PR Can Transform Company Blogs Into New Digital Hubs That Drive Reach and ROI
OAKLAND, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 11/20/09 -- PR pros looking to triple the reach and influence of their company's online presence, maximize traffic and drive engagement should attend this exclusive 90-minute webinar event titled "." This exclusive PR

Twitter gets $4M in revenue, is working on plan for posting ads
Twitter, the free micro-blogging system that lets users post 140-character messages, is getting more than $4 million a year in revenue from companies that use Twitter data, according to Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo, who spoke at a conference in

Twitter has revenue, plans more with ads
Twitter Inc. has about $4 million in annual revenue and should see more soon when it adds advertising, a top executive of the popular micro-blogging business said Friday. Chief Operating Officer Dick Costolo told a San Francisco conference sponsored by

Congrats and Kudos to ALA’s Washington Office Team on the New Look of their District Dispatch Blog
The blog has a new look that’s very easy on the eyes. You’ll also find links to the District Dispatch RSS and Twitter feeds. If the intersection of the library world with the world of U.S. politics is of interest, District Dispatch is essential

Twitter Turns on Geolocation Functionality
Twitter is now allowing its externally built applications to provide geolocation features to end-users, after announcing its intention to do so in August. The functionality is provided via a specific geotagging API (application programming interface)

Listen to 'World's First Twitter Album'
[caption id="attachment_12090" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Each song on this Twitter-able album is represented by 140 characters of code at most "] [/caption] Anyone with half a brain can paste a song onto Twitter by pasting in the URL for a

Jason Calacanis: "I Plan On Buying $250,000 Worth Of AOL Stock"
As the founder of Weblogs Inc., Jason Calacanis is, in many ways, the cofounder of the new AOL, which will be built around the company's network of 80 blogs and content sites. So when we asked the Mahalo CEO for his take on AOL's future, we thought

A blog supreme for new court
Olswang and Matrix Chambers launched their UK Supreme Court blog last Tuesday.

Friday Cat Blogging - 20 November
We have a winner in our cat cover contest! Though actually it was a tie. There were two cats who received the same number of votes, but one of them turned out to be an internet cat while the other one is (I hope) a real live cat belonging to a real live

Twitter Geotagging: What You Need to Know
Lost amid was the official launch of . Twitter's newest feature allows you to embed your location in the 140-character messages you send out to the world. Whenever you send a tweet with your location information, users will see a map pin at the bottom

Top travel Twitter feeds to follow
For any of our readers who use Twitter, I suggest two lists of great sources for aviation-related Twitter feeds that came out this month. And, I owe each of the authors a big "thank you" since each was kind enough to include Today in the Sky

New Moon Reviews: What Twitter Thinks [CHART]
Twilight-mania just won’t stop! More than 400 million “New Moon” videos have been viewed online , the film is expected to beat all midnight opening records , and Twitter continues to be abuzz with “New Moon” chatter. On Wednesday, we

Listen to 140-Character Songs Geeks Are Trading on Twitter
Each song on this Twitter-able album is represented by 140 characters of code at most Anyone with half a brain can paste a song onto Twitter by pasting in the URL for a song. For some, that isn’t enough — they figured out how to paste entire songs

WWD Reader Profile: Bia Kunze, Dentist/Mobile Tech Blogger
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Twitter Puts Geotagging Tools in Place
Twitter has announced a new feature that will give users the ability to send their location with each tweet. The new geotagging API tools are available only through the Twitter API, and are not part of Twitter.com just yet. So, if you’d like to post

CheapOair Unveils Official Blog & "12 Days of Travel"
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Yahoo Adds Twitter to News Results
New free gaming community with mobile Games, Ringtones, Wallpapers, Photos and Videos with community features SMS, Chat, Blog, Group like Facebook, Friendster and MySpace. Free Fonwar IM, live chat & interact over internet data plan or WiFi. Microsoft

Twitter to charge this year
Twitter’s been edging around the subject for years, but now the micro blogging sensations’s CEO says that it’ll begin to charge for select services this year. Speaking to the BBC, Twitter founder Biz Stone replied when asked about a business model,

Infoaxe — a real-time search engine that doesn’t rely on Twitter
Infoaxe , which records your web history and make it searchable, just launched a public facing real-time search engine tapping the behavior of its more than 2 million users. Infoaxe is a fairly unique entrant into the real-time search space. It

Hedge Fund Financial Model Issues a Public Challenge on Twitter and Radio That its Model Portfolio Will Increase 20 Percent by January
BAM Investor becomes first institutional grade financial model to so openly announce its market predictions and issue a self-imposed performance challenge, attracting a frenzy of media attention and a global following on Twitter San Francisco, CA (PRWEB)

Twitter Adds Geotagging Feature
Twitter on Thursday released long-awaited location-tagging features for the Twitter API. The new feature will allow users to embed their locations with their tweets. For privacy reasons, it's strictly an opt-in feature--meaning you won't send out your

Boston Herald Howie Carr column: Deval's Twittering away any hope of re-election
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Twitter COO: We'll Have An Advertising Business Soon. And You're Going To Love It.
It seems that Twitter has come across the Holy Grail of advertising, and it's coming soon. Today during his interview at the RealTime CrunchUp, Twitter COO Dick Costolo told the audience a bit about the company's upcoming advertising business. Costolo