Posts Tagged with ‘microblogging’

Have you ever felt more than a little disappointed when Twitter updates told you that some of your friends were at a very interesting event (a concert, a presentation, a conference maybe) you had no interest in but would have gladly attended should you know your friends were there? I have had this feeling myself more than once when I wanted to be at a place where some of my friends if I had no idea beforehand they would be [...]

One of the products debuted at the TechCrunch 50 conference in San Francisco is Yammer - a product dabbed by Erick Schonfeld “Twitter for companies”. That basically means that it is yet another microblogging product and a niche one at that - targeted at enterprise market specifically.
The main idea here is that there is no large universal Yammer network here - you can only join a provate corporate network for the company you work for using your corporate email address. [...]

SocialCast positions itself as a provider of corporate networking and collaboration platform to help businesses leverage the power of networking between employees in the most creative ways. Basically that means that any business can use SocialCast platform to build a social network for its employees and use it as a centralized communications hub.
Today SocialCast announces launch of a micro-blogging and knowledge management tool for the platform that Rafe Needleman has already named “FriendFeed for your business”. And the similarities are [...]

Finally we are beginning to see the fruits of the huge boost in Twitter's funding, something that the Twitter team is no doubt relieved to see as well. Granted, saying that Twitter's failure numbers have been drastically reduced is similar to Ford saying that Focus SVT engine fires were becoming less frequent a few years back, but I suppose we'll take what we can get.
Ev Williams, co-founder of Twitter, wrote a blog post in which he documented the [...]

Is not it funny how creators of various web 2.0 tools give us the tools that they intend for one thing and eventually users find unexpected uses that the developers did not even think about? This happened with Twitter - everyone talked about microblogging and we started to use Twitter mostly as a communications tool and now the creators explain that the platform can't cope with the load because they never built it as a messenger tool.
The [...]

As anyone who's ever used Twitter can tell you, it's a fast-moving medium, and users are prone to typos, mistakes in direct vs. broadcast messages, and, if you occasionally reply via your IM client, you may send an IM out to Twitter instead.
In general, these mistakes are a mere blip in the overall scheme of Twitter; even if people notice at the time, the messages are flying at such a fast pace that it vanishes quickly, and you never [...]

Users of the Movable Type 4.1 blogging platform from Six Apart can now enjoy the added benefits of microblogging with a new plugin known as Action Streams, which is part of the company's strategy towards more social openness.
With Action Streams, which works similarly to Facebook's news feed and FriendFeed (previously covered here), bloggers can “aggregate, control, and share” actions around the web, while avoiding some of the problems that have plagued current offerings. For example, Six Apart mentions that users [...]

Anyone who has been keeping track of all the microblogging services now available to internet users (Twitter, Jaiku, Tumblr, Meemi, and the list goes on), probably knows that although having launched last June, Pownce has been in a beta stage for the past seven months, limiting the number of people who sign up only to those who have been invited.
Now, the latest brainchild of Kevin Rose (creator of Digg), has today evolved from an "invite-only" service into a public one. [...]

HelloTxt is a service that is very good at what it does, which actually isn't very much at all. But it's useful and easy, which counts for a lot.
Microblogging has exploded in popularity across the web with several different, but very similar, services now available. Although Twitter and Pownce are quite simple to use, anyone who has an account at both (or even at others such as Jaiku) knows how frustrating and time-consuming it can be to post the same [...]