Twitter CEO Evan Williams said at the Web 2.0 Summit here Nov. 17 that he would like to work with Facebook on additional data exchange. Facebook is frosty to the idea. – News Analysis: Twitter would still like to work with
Facebook despite the companies’ failure to agree to an equal exchange of data,
Twitter CEO Evan Williams said at the Web 2.0 Summit Nov. 17.
The Web services share a lot of the same users, so
connecting them makes sense. At least, it makes sen…
World former No. 1 golfer Tiger Woods launched his first Twitter page yesterday. “What’s up everyone. Finally decided to try out twitter!†the New York Post quoted him as tweeting for the first time. In a second tweet, Woods said, “Yep, it’s me. I think I like this twitter thing. You guys are awesome. Thanks [...]
The official Google Voice app for iPhone went live this week and our sister site SlashGear has already reviewed the app and offered up their judgment. The verdict is that the app is crazy simple to use and Google Voice fans will love it. Whoever runs the Twitter account for Verizon has hinted that the [...]
Twitter and Apple are now syncing up to let iTunes users of the Ping social network port their posts as Twitter tweets, a pairing that could spur Facebook to connect with Ping. – Twitter said Nov. 11 that it is now connecting with Ping, the Apple iTunes music social network that failed to get in sync with Facebook earlier this year.
Based on the technology Apple acquired from Lala, Ping is packaged as part of the new iTunes 10. The social software lets users follow iTunes’ …
Christmas just isn’t Christmas until we’ve bared witness to a Kanye West online meltdown! Ahhh — now we can comfortably commence our holiday gift-buying. Just days after generously serenading fans on a flight from Minneapolis to New York, the “Flashing Lights” star has relapsed into his trademark Douchebaggery and gone all Kathy Bates in Misery [...]
Microsoft is pinning its smartphone-market hopes on Windows Phone 7, its competitor to the Apple iPhone and the growing family of Google Android devices. A vital part of the companys Windows Phone 7 strategy centers on mobile applications. As other smartphone platforms have demonstrated in recent years, a robust app library greatly influences users& Apple’s App Store and its hundreds of thousands of apps are frequently cited as a key draw, while Palms lack of apps is just as often blamed for that platforms failure to build a market presence. Taking no chances, Microsoft is preparing to launch Windows Phone 7 with apps from prominent brands already in place. Those brands include Netflix, Twitter, OpenTable and LucasArts’ "Star Wars." As time goes on, however, Microsoft also hopes that smaller third-party developers will gravitate toward Windows Phone 7 as their platform of choice for building and selling apps. Throughout the summer, Microsoft has been encouraging developers to think about ways to port both games and productivity applications onto Windows Phone 7, even offering a series of online tutorials. – …
RockMelt Nov. 7 launched to limited beta its social Web browser that lets users connect to their Facebook and Twitter accounts. This connection lets users post status updates and share other bits of content right from the browser window. The idea is that users needn’t go directly to Facebook and Twitter to share or even Google.com to search. Flock had a similar idea in 2007, but failed to catch on with the bulk of users even as Google Chrome carved out an 8.5 percent browser market share. RockMelt is actually a lot like Chrome in functionality, offering an incognito mode for private Web browsing. There is reason for this. RockMelt is built on top of Chromium, the open-source project that backs Chrome. Navigating amid the different social tools in RockMelt was a breeze, and this is where RockMelt is a cut above Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Apple Safari Web browsers. Check out our initial RockMelt set-up and tour in this eWEEK slide show. – …
Google has started surfacing Twitter’s Promoted Tweets ads in its Realtime Search page, part of the search engine’s deal with the microblog. – Google is now running Twitter’s Promoted Tweets ads in its Realtime Search
page, a coup for the microblog trying to extend its money-making opportunities
outside of Twitter.
Promoted Tweets marks Twitter’s first foray into online advertising, letting advertisers such as Starbucks pay $100,000
to…
Twitter for Android application gets faster all around, sporting high-resolution avatar photos, speedier scrolling and a new tweet details page. – Twitter Nov. 3 updated its Twitter for Android application with a speedier-scrolling
timeline and a new tweet details page, among other perks.
Twitter for Android has been fairly decent for users since the micrblog launched it in late April.
Users of the app could tweet and share links and …
Twitter is experimenting with offering Promoted Tweets to its timelines, bringing paid ads to the Website’s 175 million users. It’s about making more money without annoying users. – Twitter Nov. 1 extended its Promoted Tweets effort to its timelines,
exposing paid ads to more of the microblog’s roughly 175 million users.
Promoted Tweets let advertisers such as Starbucks pay $100,000 to push
their products in searches and trending topics. The ads started in searches on
Twitt…
Twitter is heading toward 200 million users by the end of 2010, leading to changes in the company’s executive structure. – Twitter could nearly pass 200 million users by the end of 2010 if it
continues adding new ones at a rate of 370,000 a day.
That calculation comes courtesy of an
Oct. 30 article in The New York Times, which pegged the microblogging
Website’s current user base at 175 million. With 60 days left in …
IBM researchers are proposing an approach to WiFi security they call Secure Open Wireless in light of the release of the Firesheep tool. – IBM is proposing a new approach to address WiFi security in the wake of the Firesheep plug-in for Firefox.
The Firesheep extension can be used to hijack the sessions of people using unencrypted sites such as Facebook and Twitter on
an open wireless network. The tool was released less than a wee…
Twitter Oct. 28 rolled out Twitter for Windows Phone for Windows Phone 7 handsets. AT&T and T-Mobile will offer the first Windows Phone 7 devices next month. – Twitter Oct. 28 embraced Microsoft’s new smartphone platform with the launch
of Twitter for Windows Phone, a new application for Windows Phone 7 handsets.
Twitter said the app will help users access their tweets easily from any
Windows Phone 7 device, and includes the typical timeline, suggested…
Not all news is fit to print—particularly when it comes to social networks. It can be hard to know which is which for some people. After all, it is not uncommon for people to use Twitter, Facebook or other sites to pass on mundane details of their day. But sometimes details thought to be mundane can actually be a gold mine for identity thieves, scammers and other criminals savvy enough or perhaps opportunistic enough to mine social networks for details they can use. Some information, security specialists warn, can be used to target you. This was brought home recently in New Hampshire, where three men were arrested and accused of choosing homes to break into based on Facebook status updates. So just what type of information should you avoid putting online? Here, eWEEK, with the help of several different security experts, has pulled together seven security tips and recommendations to help users of Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites protect their identity and other personal information. – …
The Firefox Firesheep extension has helped give birth to a similar tool targeted at Twitter. – A London software developer has followed in the footsteps of the Firesheep extension for Firefox with his own tool targeting Twitter users leveraging open WiFi.
Jonty Wareing’s tool is called quot;Idiocy, quot;
which he describes in a blog post as “a warning shot to people browsing
the intern…
What popular high-tech company that holds major sway over the mobile Web has more money in the bank than Google’s $34 billion? That would be Apple, with a whopping $51 billion in cash reserves as of the company’s fourth fiscal quarter. Clearly, Apple’s smash-hit iPods, iPod Touches, iPhones and new iPads are helping the company build quite a bank for itself even as they change the way consumers access the Web while on the go. Apple CEO Steve Jobs mentioned on the company’s Q4 earnings call Oct. 18 that Apple is saving money for "strategic opportunities." Read: acquisitions, folks. "We’d like to continue to keep our powder dry because we do feel that there are one or more strategic opportunities in the future," Jobs said. Of course, that comment sent financial analysts and Apple-watching pundits into a frenzy of speculation. It certainly got eWEEK thinking about what Apple could buy with all of that coin. So, without further ado, here are companies Jobs and Co. should mull snapping up. – …
Yahoo is now allowing users to post status updates to Facebook and tweets to Twitter to its new beta of Yahoo Mail. Speed and spam have also been addressed in this build. – Yahoo Oct. 26 leveraged its partnerships with Facebook and Twitter to makes
its latest Yahoo Mail Beta instantiation a much more social application.
Yahoo has been maligned for the last few years for failing to grow against
the tide of Internet powers such as Google, Facebook and Twitter.
Desp…
While midmarket companies find social media sites alluring, recent surveys suggest that many question its true business benefits. – Small businesses are unsure about the impact of social networking on
reaching customers, according to a recent survey from RatePoint, a provider of
customer reviews, testimonials and online reputation-management services. The
survey revealed that while 36 percent of small businesses agree their c…
Twitter is rising in popularity – seemingly every day. People are tweeting 50 million times a day – 600 per second. And its not just teenagers tweeting about Justin Bieber. Plugging into a real-time idea stream and joining the conversation–can help companies in numerous ways. From market research to corporate image to customer service, Twitter is a powerful business tool.
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Stephen Fry â€may quit Twitter over sex commentsâ€
It seems Stephen Fry has again hinted that he is bidding adieu to Twitter because of trails of comments he made suggesting women did not enjoy sex. The comic, 53, had posted on his Twitter account that women only bed men “because sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship,” The [...]