Posts Tagged with ‘twitter’

Twitter seems to be just about everywhere these days and every news publication seems to have a purpose to link Twitter to every news event they cover – related or actually not. And while Twitter is becoming increasingly popular, everyone seems to have realized that the power of using Twitter is in the number of [...]

As a Russian living in Russia and doing business internationally, I am known for my strong belief in localization for internet products – both for startups and established web companies. Yet sometimes one realizes that even the best efforts can result in absolutely nothing because you can never predict everything about a country where you [...]

How many people do you follow on Twitter? To me the number is huge and I am still surprised to realize how many people I like to track on the web when looking at my Twitter timeline. But even if you only follow a hundred people or even less and have strict rules and principles [...]

It does not look like web developers will ever get tired of building applications for Twitter: with a friendly and powerful API and huge popularity they seem to come up with new ideas for new applications pretty frequently. Today a new application named Twicli is launched to combine Twitter and photos and even though the [...]

Twitter sometimes looks like it has been here forever with everyone seemingly using it everywhere and for just about every purpose. And of course we have all seen various marketing and promotion techniques employed on Twitter as marketing and PR people rushed to Twitter to follow their target audiences and to deliver appropriate messages and [...]

If there is one thing that I totally don’t understand about the blogosphere, it is our usual attitude that our voices can change everything – and easily. And while we have seen examples of good and even great things happening because of someone raising a voice in some part of the world on a small [...]

Lately I’ve been noticing that the vast majority of newly-launched startups looked very much like something we have already seen before – but with great modifications that make the copy much better and usable than the original was. But unfortunately that does not really mean that the clone will ever be able to grab users [...]

Yesterday there was an interesting announcement from the team over at Facebook about a new option allowing users to make certain portions of their Facebook profiles available to everyone. Until now the privacy options for various types of information you populate your Facebook profile with included Only Friends, Friends of Friends, and My Networks and [...]

We all know the famous trends of web 2.0 like user-generated content or content syndication and we have grown to accept the internet as it is – along with all the strengths and weaknesses of the system. And of course as any medium internet can have both good and bad sides – and quite logically [...]