China’s Sina, proprietor of the highly popular Weibo, is reportedly preparing to float the microblogging platform as a spinoff on the New…
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Twitter forces Flattr to stop letting users tip ‘favorited’ tweets
Flattr's Twitter micropayments venture, where people could leave tips for 'favorited' tweets, is over. But as that tie-in got shut down, Flattr enabled tips for YouTube videos. The system also works on Instagram and SoundCloud.…
Read MoreTumblr’s Karp goes into pitchman mode for advertisers
Six months after launching the first ad on Tumblr, the startup's founder and CEO David Karp took the stage during New York's Advertising Week to talk up his platform's approach to marketing.…
Read MorePhoto-sharing market lock
As if there were any doubt, Facebook seems to have locked up mainstream photo-sharing with its Instagram acquisition.…
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The new version of Twitter’s API that struck fear in the hearts of many developers – particularly those who would re-display tweets…
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Okay, that headline is too much. Twitter does need to take better care of its apps ecosystem. At the very least, it…
Read MoreHow Tumblr went from wee to webscale
Tumblr hits 500 million page views a day, deals with 40,000 requests per second and sends more than a terabyte of data into its Hadoop cluster. Here's how it went from nothing to a startup that needed to serve 15 billion page views a month.…
Read MoreFacebook has nothing to fear, except itself
According to Edward Aten, founder of Swift.fm, Facebook is recreating and competing with nearly every significant Internet product of the last few years. It's an unprecedented pivot that threatens Facebook's core products and may eventually benefit the very same startups Facebook is trying to crush.…
Read MoreWho’s winning in Twitter photos? Hint: Not Yfrog or Lockerz
When Twitter debuted its native photo-sharing feature earlier this year, some people worried that it would harm the existing ecosystem of third-party photo sharing apps. New data indicates that those concerns were well justified: Twitter now powers 45 percent of the photos shared on its site.…
Read MoreKerio Workspace: File collaboration without email
Kerio Workspace 1.1, described as "an online file and content sharing platform," has some features in common with collaboration solutions such as Basecamp, but it omits project management features. It has more in common with file sharing solutions such as ShareFile.and with enterprise microblogging solutions like Flowr.…
Read MoreBlaming the tools: Britain proposes a social-media ban
It seems totalitarian states like Egypt aren't the only ones struggling with the impact of social media and the desire to muzzle services like Twitter and Facebook. Britain says it's considering a ban on social media in the wake of the riots in London.…
Read MoreTwitter tries to get stickier by showing you more activity
Twitter has rolled out two new features to help users know which of their tweets resonate with their social graph, and to get a better look at the activity of the people they follow. The new features appear to be designed to boost Twitter's "stickiness" factor.…
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Here are some of the social and media highlights from the keynote presentation at Apple’s developer conference. Apple is integrating Twitter pretty…
Read MoreHow to Reach Social Media Critical Mass
How big is big enough? When do new consumer technologies really start to catch on? What happens when they do? These are questions of critical mass, and there’s plenty of historical evidence to point at the answers.…
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A couple of social media personalities have recently decided to scale back on their use of the newer, micro- and real-time services…
Read MoreStatus.net Gets $1.4M to Take Open-Source Twitter Into the Enterprise
Status.net has closed a $1.4-million financing round that it plans to use to take its open-source microblogging software into the enterprise market. The funding came from a group led by New York venture fund FirstMark Capital, and FirstMark partner Scott Switzer will join the company's board.…
Read MoreSoundbiter: Constantly Recording Audio Microblogging
Last summer’s iPhone 3.0 software update brought integrated (and underrated) voice recording to the device via the Voice Memos feature, enabling users…
Read MoreImplementing a Successful Corporate Microblogging Strategy
It can be very difficult to get an organization to accept corporate microblogging as a means of facilitating closer collaboration. However, while…
Read MoreConvos: Online Communication for Groups
Everyone has a different way of doing things. Fortunately, there’s a huge number of web services that offer groups different ways to…
Read MoreTypePad Adds Microblogging
Microblogging is hot right now. While Twitter dominates the space, Facebook and Tumblr are very much in the game. I recently wrote…
Read MoreTalkin' Bout a (Blogging) Revolution
Chalk up that headline as a hat tip to one of my favorite artists, Tracy Chapman, who is performing in San Francisco…
Read MoreThe Evolution of Blogging
Blogging has evolved, becoming more than just a source of straight information or opinion, but of rich context. But that's not enough. Blogs need to evolve further, to become open, more social -- to reflect more accurately our dynamic, real-times lives.…
Read MoreThe 140 Character Conference, or Why Twitter Matters Now
There was as much grumbling about the Twitter-style format of the 140 Character Conference in New York this week as there often…
Read More12seconds Makes UGC Commercials for Twitter Attention Spans
User-generated commercial contests are a dime a dozen. But what if the people putting on such a contest asked you to put…
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