Twitter

Image by Tim in Sydney via Flickr The founder of a small, but interesting, little company called Values of n recently announced that Twitter had purchased the web productivity company, and that he – Rael Dornfest – would be joining Twitter. Most people I know haven’t heard of Values of n, but some may know …

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?…

Aligning to the right market

May 22, 2008

#tech

Chasm, Om Malik, Twitter, web2.0

Om Malik just linked to an excellent post by Dare Obasanjo in which Dare takes a second look at the market for web 2.0 companies and reminds them that there are substantial differences between the early adopters and the real market that those companies are aiming for. As I’ve said in the past, I think…

Does Twitter matter?

Apr 29, 2008

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Enterprise 2.0, FriendFeed, Lifehacker, Steve Rubel, Twitter, Wall Street Journal

There’s a small dustup underway on the blogoshpere today regarding the relevancy of Twitter. If you scroll all the way down on my blog, you’ll see that I’m an occasional poster to Twitter. I follow a bunch of people, mostly through the Firefox extension TwitterFox, which I’ve found to be the best way to monitor…

Pownce anyone?

Aug 2, 2007

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pownce, Twitter

A reader recently sent me an invite to pownce, and now I’ve got several invites to handout myself. If you’re interested, leave a comment and I’ll send the invite out.