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People in the tech industry love speculating about two things, what Facebook is really worth and how Twitter will make money. The jury is still out on the first one but Twitter is adding more fuel to the fire by changing its tune and now saying that ads are in fact coming to the site. To add to the hype, Twitter isn&... |
21 November 2009
04:54 GMT |
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Location services are becoming increasingly popular and, with the right devices and tools to take advantage of, they're also becoming more useful. Twitter has been working on location features for a couple of months now and the microblogging service has finally enabled them, but for now, only for third-party de... |
20 November 2009
07:20 GMT |
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A group of Venezuelan students were recently arrested by local police for various theft charges. After further investigation, authorities proved that they were using many social networking sites, especially Facebook, to monitor their victims' activity and rob their houses while out of town.Global Post reports th... |
19 November 2009
10:31 GMT |
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One of the main reasons for Twitter's success has been the openness towards third-party developers. While the core service has stayed mostly true to its minimalistic approach, users can get most of the features they need from all of the services and apps that cater to Twitter. In fact, these apps are so popular,... |
18 November 2009
14:11 GMT |
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Twitter owes much of its popularity to the ecosystem of third-party apps and services that has sprung up around it. In fact, a big chunk of Twitter's userbase doesn't visit the site itself, but connects to the service via third-party desktop or mobile clients. On the desktop front, two players are battling ... |
18 November 2009
12:51 GMT |
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A few days ago, we saw the first leaked images showing that Facebook integration was being prepared for the PlayStation 3. And, in an unusual move, Sony has not entered its usual denial tactics and actually put out a preview of the features set to be integrated in the 3.10 firmware update, which is said to come very ... |
17 November 2009
16:21 GMT |
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Twitter may be slowing down in the US, but it's showing no signs of stopping elsewhere. One feature, which seems to drive growth as much as anything else, is its mobility. Since its inception, users have been able to send tweets via SMS, but Twitter is now taking it to the next level with the announcement of a ... |
17 November 2009
05:48 GMT |
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A security researcher has devised a practical Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack leveraging the recently disclosed SSL and TLS renegotiation flaw. The proof-of-concept attack shows that it is possible to steal login credentials from Twitter by exploiting the yet unpatched bug.Two weeks ago, it was revealed that a seriou... |
16 November 2009
06:33 GMT |
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Twitter is a great tool for public relations and many companies, celebrities, and public figures have realized this early on. And like any great PR opportunity, you're going to want to let the professionals handle it. US president Barack Obama can credit his win at least partially on making good use of online t... |
16 November 2009
06:03 GMT |
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For a while, as Twitter was taking off, URL shorteners were all the rage all of a sudden. New services were popping up left and right to the point where saying the market was saturated was an understatement. Soon enough, Bit.ly became the de facto URL shortener after Twitter chose it as the default service for the si... |
14 November 2009
05:17 GMT |
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Security researchers warn of a shady IQ test being promoted on Twitter via the Direct Messages feature. This is actually a scam that tries to trick people into subscribing to a useless mobile service for $9.99 per month.According to threat analysts from Trend Micro, this latest spam campaign is being instrumented fro... |
13 November 2009
10:12 GMT |
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Twitter looks to be as popular as ever, judging by all the attention it's been getting, but for several months traffic numbers in the US have been stalling and they've actually dropped in October from the previous month, going from 20.9 to just 19.2 million, according to comScore numbers. Traffic has been ... |
13 November 2009
09:41 GMT |
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Mint is becoming more and more popular, especially in the US. The personal finance service is going from strength to strength even after being acquired by Intuit. Besides the proper site, Mint also hosts an interesting blog, which is more than just a tool to get its message to users, it's an actual resource for... |
13 November 2009
08:56 GMT |
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As weird as it may sound, Microsoft's loss of the Xbox 360 exclusivity of console Netflix streaming came in the nick of time. Last week, Sony also implemented this feature for its PlayStation 3, but it did so in a time window that offered Microsoft the perfect opportunity to strike back. Microsoft has a thing fo... |
13 November 2009
08:13 GMT |
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Britney Spears has got her Twitter and MySpace accounts hijacked by vandals looking to defame her. The rogue status updates posted yesterday on her feed made references to Devil worshiping and the New World Order.Britney Spears, Twitter and hackers seem to be a recurring theme. Back in January, she was amongst the vi... |
13 November 2009
05:48 GMT |
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Google's eagerly anticipated communications service Wave has opened to a lot more people for about a month now. Unfortunately, many users were unimpressed with the current state of the service, be it because of its rather clunky interface or simply because they just don't get what problem exactly it is try... |
13 November 2009
05:36 GMT |
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Barely out the door, the latest feature Twitter decided to bless its users with, retweets, has now been disabled by the microblogging site after several issues creeped up during the wider roll-out. The feature has been M.I.A. for more than half a day and it doesn't look like it's back up at this point. The... |
12 November 2009
09:01 GMT |
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It looks like social media use is not only going up for individual users, social tools are also becoming a lot more popular in enterprises, this despite social networks being blocked in a large number of them. A new report from Palo Alto Networks, maker of enterprise firewall solutions, found that Twitter use grew t... |
11 November 2009
10:26 GMT |
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Twitter has been on a roll lately with a big new feature, Lists, and several partnerships with companies like Google, Microsoft, and LinkedIn. But it's not stopping now, the microblogging service has just launched the long-awaited retweet feature to a bigger number of users and should see a complete roll out so... |
11 November 2009
07:18 GMT |
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One of the big selling points of the Xbox 360 home gaming console, for this Christmas, is the social tools which Microsoft is promising to integrate, from Facebook and Twitter to Last.fm. They are being slowly rolled out over the coming weeks and the company is hoping that the new services, available to all thos... |
10 November 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Twitter has been on a roll lately when it comes to partnerships. It signed a deal with Bing to provide the search engine with real-time results, and barely a few hours later Google made its own announcement of a similar deal. Now, Twitter and LinkedIn have announced they've reached an agreement and a partnership... |
10 November 2009
06:26 GMT |
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Twitter has a very open attitude, allowing any developer to access much of the service and its users to express themselves as freely as possible, but this openness has a downside, namely it makes it very easy for spammers to take over. Twitter has been battling this problem for quite a while now, but without too much... |
6 November 2009
05:37 GMT |
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Twitter has been on a roll lately launching new features on a rate rarely seen in the past year or so. It just launched a major feature, Lists, which is already proving very popular and is changing the way many are using the service. Now, it's ready to launch a brand-new one, first announced in August, which may... |
6 November 2009
04:35 GMT |
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Twitter may have been getting a lot of attention lately thanks to its new Lists feature, but this doesn't change the fact that it's facing a problem that seems to have been sticking with it for several months now. Traffic has stalled for the microblogging service and many users leave after the novelty facto... |
5 November 2009
05:25 GMT |
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Twitter can't figure out how to make money from its service, or just doesn't want to rush into things, but others have started making some revenue on the microblogging service. Now, Amazon has come up with an interesting proposal. In an email, the company notified members of Amazon Associates that it had in... |
4 November 2009
10:37 GMT |
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Microsoft has drastically overhauled the MSN butterfly logo and the portal that goes along with it, but not all of the website’s 600 million visitors per month will be able to enjoy the changes. The Redmond company has limited the MSN redesign, which it catalogued as the most significant MSN home page revamp i... |
4 November 2009
07:44 GMT |
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Twitter is finally going international and is now announcing that the service is available in Spanish, the first step towards the introduction of several new languages. The translation effort mirrors that of Facebook, as it uses volunteers to provide translations to all of the pages and features on Twitter. The move ... |
4 November 2009
03:10 GMT |
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Twitter has always greatly focused on the third-party environment. The website itself gets its fair share of attention, but the company has always envisioned itself as just a service provider and, as such, has made sure that all manners of third-party apps and devices are being catered to with the APIs and access to ... |
3 November 2009
05:10 GMT |
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Twitter Lists were rolled out over the weekend to all users and they've proven a huge success so far. Maybe it's the fact that Twitter implements important features like this one very, very slowly, or maybe it's just the fact that the feature is proving very useful to most users. It's probably a c... |
2 November 2009
07:18 GMT |
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Twitter has now officially launched and announced one of its most eagerly awaited features, Twitter Lists. The feature has been in beta for a while now and it has been rolled out to all users during the past couple of days allowing them to group the people they follow and to easily share them with their friends. &ldq... |
31 October 2009
08:26 GMT |
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Twitter is finally rolling out the Lists feature to everybody and the site is abuzz with the news. This time though, it's for good reason, as the feature could prove one of the biggest improvements Twitter has seen at least since it hit the mainstream. Lists is still in beta and there have been some hiccups with... |
30 October 2009
11:11 GMT |
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The music streaming market is going into high gear as everyone seems to be stepping up their game and newcomers are getting in to grab a piece of the action. The problem is, there isn't that much “action” to go around, very few of these services making any real money. Pandora is one of those few and ... |
28 October 2009
07:06 GMT |
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Yahoo isn't a search company. At least that's the tune it’s playing lately as it outsourced its search capabilities to Microsoft in a landmark deal. Not everyone is convinced that Yahoo got the best deal but content is the new strategy and Yahoo is sticking with it. But it may not be out of the search... |
28 October 2009
05:50 GMT |
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The social web is influencing more and more sectors online and shopping hasn't been spared. A big number of retailers already has some sort of presence on social websites and their number is growing rapidly. It's not enough to have a good website these days, as a great Facebook page or YouTube channel are e... |
27 October 2009
13:01 GMT |
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There's never been so much information so easily available in the history of mankind but this deluge of data coming our way from all directions is getting harder and harder to manage. The need for a better system of organizing all the different sources is very apparent but, so far, there hasn't been anythin... |
23 October 2009
04:08 GMT |
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Bing is growing, and in more directions than one. The latest evolutionary step for Microsoft’s search/decision engine involves embracing the “real time” components of the web. “Real time “ has always been an elusive goal for search engines, at least until Twitter came along. Suddenly, th... |
22 October 2009
11:06 GMT |
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Real time is the talk of the town these days but so far the big search engines have been outmaneuvered by small startups. Twitter is currently 'the' place for real-time information but the means of accessing it are still lacking. Twitter's own search engine is a good place to start but it is fairly lim... |
22 October 2009
03:57 GMT |
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The real-time web just got a lot more competitive with two of the largest search engines in the market announcing deals with Twitter. Both Google and Bing will now show tweets from the microblogging platform in their results pages. Both deals have been speculated for a while and now they've been made official. G... |
22 October 2009
02:59 GMT |
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Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Twitter cofounder and CEO Evan Williams answered some questions about the service ranging from the perennial business model ones to more tricky issues like the growth slowdown in the US for the past few months. While he did recognize several problems, he was optimistic... |
21 October 2009
06:32 GMT |
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Twitter may not be putting any advertising on the site any time soon but others have jumped at the chance. Though not exactly a proven business model, more and more companies are trying to convince Twitter users and advertisers with in-stream advertising options. Ad.ly, a startup launched just a month ago, is one of ... |
20 October 2009
11:54 GMT |
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The real-time web is still going strong and buried under all of the hype there actually is a legitimate concept and a real need and usefulness. Twitter is pretty much the poster child of the real-time web but its greatest strength, its simplicity, is also its greatest weakness and there have been those who have tried... |
19 October 2009
10:56 GMT |
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Net neutrality is a hot subject in the US and the repercussions of the debate will affect the web worldwide for many years to come. The battle has been heating up lately with both sides amping up their demands ahead of the unveiling of FCC's proposed net-neutrality rules on Thursday. After pressure from the grou... |
19 October 2009
05:34 GMT |
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While visiting Japan for the launch of the local version of Twitter mobile website, it seems that Biz Stone decided to put an end to the rumors on the web and declared that the continuously expanding micro-blogging network was definitely not for sale. One of the most intriguing but also fascinating aspects about Tw... |
17 October 2009
10:31 GMT |
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The proof that Twitter is very serious about becoming a worldwide social networking platform, in case other evidence was needed, is that is has launched a Japanese customized mobile version of its website on Thursday. This move was not caused only by the fact that Japan represents “a leading edge, with advanced... |
17 October 2009
02:17 GMT |
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Earlier in the year Digg founder Kevin Rose launched a pet project dubbed WeFollow, a user-generated Twitter directory of sorts that gained quite a bit of popularity since then even though traffic numbers have dropped off recently. Initially the project was completely unrelated to Digg but it now seems that the site ... |
16 October 2009
09:16 GMT |
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Meghan McCain, daughter of presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, is, usually, a person who likes to keep to herself and not draw unnecessary attention unless she really has something important to say. With all that, just hours ago, she found herself at the center of a storm on the Internet over a photo she posted ... |
16 October 2009
06:57 GMT |
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Twitter is working on several features at the time, which have been eagerly awaited by most users. The features are still in beta and made public in limited tests but it now looks like the company has expanded the test for the Lists feature somehow. The feature was revealed a couple of weeks ago and could prove very ... |
16 October 2009
04:22 GMT |
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Twitter may not be making any money as a web service just yet but it looks like it's trying its luck in more diverse fields like wine making. The microblogging service is launching its own wine label today, called Fledgling Wine, in collaboration with the Crushpad DIY winery from San Francisco, Twitter's ow... |
15 October 2009
10:13 GMT |
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Spam has always been a problem online but as the web evolves so do the means of spreading it. Email spam isn't going anywhere but social networks are increasingly flooded with the problem and the bigger they are, the more likely target they become. Twitter has been battling with the issue and has just launched a... |
15 October 2009
08:49 GMT |
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