A blog that contains brief entries about the daily activities of an individual or company. Created to keep friends and colleagues up-to-date, small images may be included as well as audio and video clips, which are typically short and limited. See Twitter and Yammer.
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- Twitter Snipia Command Line Tool 1.0 (Windows)
- Command line tool lets you update your Twitter status or send snips using Snipia, using the Windows command line. Twitter is a free microblog. Snipia.com is a free Twitter-like service designed for groups, teamwork and corporate use. (You can create groups and post tasks.)
- Software downloads 2009-10-20
- ApPHP MicroBlog 1.0.1 (Windows)
- ApPHP MicroBlog ApPHP MicroB is very simple and powerful PHP blog software. This product enables you to start your own blog within minutes. You can easy add and manage your posts and posting categories. This script is perfect for web designers and developers that want to empower their site and...
- Software downloads 2009-10-19
- Coming soon: Google's micro-blogging search engine
- It's been talked about before, but now there is solid evidence that Google is building their own meta search engine for Twitter and other micro blogging sites. Micro-blogging is emerging as an extremely popular way for people to share real-time information with the world. For example,...
- Blog posts 2009-06-13
- Follow Friday: Essential Webbies
- tweetmeme_url ='http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife/?p=551'; tweetmeme_style = 'compact'; tweetmeme_source = 'zdnetblogs'; Welcome to my new #followfriday series. Each Friday I will try to share with you a few people that I enjoy following on...
- Blog posts 2009-05-01
- 10 things I hate about Twitter
- 10 things I hate about TwitterHave your sayDo you hate Twitter as much as me, or does your life revolve around it? Are you getting sick of people of tweeting you random crap which you couldn't care less about, or are you the purportrator behind such a thing? Has Twitter...
- Discussion threads 2009-04-24
- Five things Twitter could do when it grows up
- One of these days, Twitter will need to decide what it's going to be when it grows up. There's a huge microblogging community growing, but Twitter is starting to fall behind in features to other services. Recently Identi.ca introduced groups -- which gives the service a slight...
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- News to know: Obama's inauguration streaming; Windows 7; Google; RIM
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: Where to watch Obama's presidential inauguration online Jennifer Leggio: Inauguration 2009: Can social networks handle it? ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-20
- Intridea wins: Postman as chief strategist, Present.ly official SXSW microblog platform
- Intridea, which creates enterprise 2.0 Web solutions, today announced that communications veteran Joel Postman has joined the company as senior partner and chief enterprise social business strategist. Postman, author of SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate, and founder of Socialized, is responsible for supporting Intridea clients with social media...
- Blog posts 2009-01-19
- Twitter: is there any point?
- Twitter: is there any point?i second youI totally agree with you on this. It is really up to you, how you use the masala twitter dumps. It is like garbage in and garbage out. There is plethora of information in this garbage. Its you job to filter this information. I...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-25
- Enterprise 2.0: Progress is mixed, but experimentation is cheap
- The state of enterprise 2.0 reveals spotty progress and a separation between key technologies. For instance, wikis are in, podcasts are out and blogs are somewhere in between within the corporation. In two Forrester reports here and here, the research firm hits on a few key themes:...
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Why The Big Fuss Over Microblogs?
- I microblog.Why? The truth is, I learn by doing and by speaking with others who do. So I dabble with Twitter, Plurk, Pownce, Spoink, Rakawa, Tumblr, Utterli, Yammer, FriendFeed, 12seconds, and probably a few others that I signed up for and forgot to use. I have found a nice collection...
- Blog posts 2008-10-06
- Open source microblogging
- If I had to explain Twitter to someone for the first time, I would say that it's an addicting social news feed of my friends' status or commentary. It's micro-blogging. Pushing out a tweet to 10 or 10,000 people is as easy as sending a text message. ...
- Blog posts 2008-08-24
- If Twitter buys Summize now... are its priorities in order?
- If Twitter buys Summize now... are its priorities in order?Twitter should have a lot of money left over if this happensI would hope that twitter would not spend more the $3 million for Summize, leaving it with plenty of money to rebuild the network. Summize is definitely nice. I started...
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Twitter ubiquity - more ways to microblog
- Two new ways to Twitter popped up in my RSS feeds this morning. First, Twitter has launched a new mobile UI that loads very quickly on both the Nokia N95 and the Treo 700p in my tests. Much better IMO than using SMS to check in with my friends list...
- Blog posts 2007-05-05
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