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micro-blogging

Twitter for Business webcast from O’Reilly

Nov 16, 2008

#cloud

Brand, Business, Chat, Client, customerservice, Instant Messaging, Marketing, Mass media, Message, micro-blogging, Service, Social media, Technical support, Twitter

Image via CrunchBase As a regular user of Twitter I often get asked by business people if I see value in using the micro-blogging service for business. While the nuances of twitter may vary if you are in marketing, customer support, or other parts of an enterprise, I do think its an important new channel…
The real potential of micro-blogging is in developing countries

Jul 2, 2008

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micro-blogging, SMS GupShup, Twitter, VentureBeat

Given a slow morning, I was just reading through some older Google Reader feeds, and came upon this excellent post over at VentureBeat. Anand Rajaraman is an investor in an Indian service called SMS GupShup, which serves as a Twitter-like micro-blogging service for the Indian mobile market. Why would micro-blogging matter in places like India?…