Gartner: Web 2.0 set to transform business
News Fenn said many new entries on the hype cycle — including microblogging (that is, services such as Twitter) and social networking — are making an initial impact in the consumer world, before influencing business.
[August 12, 2008, 8:19]
Mobicue for Symbian S60
Downloads Mobicue is a social microblogging service. It allows users to update any photos, videos, or text and more in real time from their camera phones, and immediately shows them to friends on Mobicue. Compatible for Nokia N-Gage/N-Gage QD/7650/3650/3600...
[April 18, 2008, 14:12]
Lotus Connections gets Twitter-like updates
News IBM has updated its Lotus Connections business collaboration software with wikis and Twitter-like microblogging functionality. Lotus Connections 2.5, announced at the IBM Worldwide Collaboration Summit on Tuesday, is part of the company's...
[September 24, 2009, 16:40]
Twitter introduces revised terms of service
News The prominence of the advertising revision seems to suggest that the microblogging start-up is warming up to an advertising-based model, a dramatic change from comments Stone made in May. Twitter posted changes to its terms of service Thursday...
[September 11, 2009, 10:02]
Twitter may charge companies that 'tweet'
News Biz Stone, co-founder of the microblogging site Twitter, has said his company is considering charging companies that use the service to market their brands. We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them," Stone told...
[February 11, 2009, 7:46]
Twitter hack targets Obama, Britney
News High-profile users of microblogging site Twitter have had their accounts compromised by a hacker, who made fake posts to their accounts. Twitter on Monday said the hacker had broken into 33 accounts by gaining access to tools used by its support team.
[January 6, 2009, 11:52]
Social networking federation: why not use .tel?
Blog Comment There is some ongoing discussion about using .tel for the namespace within a decentralised microblogging architecture (www.scripting.com, www.rsscloud.org). Exactly :-) The idea is simple: news aggregators resolve peoples names to their real-time...
[September 21, 2009, 10:00]
Loopt
Downloads Their latest release for the iPhone integrates microblogging and reviews from Yelp into its interface. Loopt enables users to broadcast their status to a broad set of services and find interesting locations and reviews nearby.
[July 13, 2008, 8:00]
Comeks Fun Photo Blogger
Downloads Comeks is a fun and visual, comic style messaging and microblogging tool. Combine your photos with graphical add-on stickers and text bubbles to make funny cartoon like Comek-messages. You can share the created Comeks as email, status update or...
[December 24, 2008, 8:38]
Security experts spot holes in Twitter malware filter
News Hacking is another challenge faced by the popular microblogging site. Twitter's new malware filter is a sign the social-media site is stepping up efforts to stem attacks, but the measure has its shortcomings, say security experts.
[August 5, 2009, 9:14]
Twitter suffers outage following fresh attack
News Twitter's servers were down on Tuesday, with members receiving server timeouts and third-party applications unable to access the microblogging service. It appears to have begun at around 11:45am PDT. Twitter posted an update to its status blog when...
[August 12, 2009, 15:30]
Voice calls coming to Twitter
News Twitter users on Thursday will, for the first time, be able to make voice calls directly to each other through the microblogging service. A new third-party offering from Jajah, known as Jajah@call, is expected to go into beta on Thursday morning.
[September 17, 2009, 12:43]
Twitter plays host to data-stealing malware
News Cybercriminals have started targeting malware at microblogging service Twitter. Kaspersky Lab has uncovered a fake Twitter profile created solely for the purpose of infecting people's computers. The profile, with an alias that means 'pretty rabbit...
[August 6, 2008, 13:04]
Israel brings Gaza airstrikes to the web
News The New York Israeli Consulate also initiated a Twitter feed in an attempt to share its viewpoints with a younger audience, garnering over 2,900 followers since its microblogging service was launched Monday.
[January 2, 2009, 10:15]
Tesco tills go down in IT glitch
News Commentators on microblogging site Twitter said that affected stores had included those in Wrexham and in Edinburgh. Supermarket chain Tesco has been unable to take money at a number of its stores following technical problems affecting its tills.
[May 11, 2009, 13:47]
Twitter fends off weekend worm attacks
News The messages in the first outbreak included a link to rival microblogging site, StalkDaily.com, which Mooney owns. Twitter security engineers were cleaning up on Monday following a series of worm attacks over the weekend, including at least two...
[April 14, 2009, 13:11]
Microsoft bets on Web 2.0 office apps for business
News He added that it was a big challenge to bring microblogging functionality into the business setting, where younger employees are avid boosters for the concept but older workers (who are sticking around longer due to the recession), "aren't even...
[April 3, 2009, 9:09]
Twitter page used to spread malware
News Criminal hackers are using a Twitter page to target Orkut users, according to a security researcher. In a blog, Chris Boyd, director of malware research for FaceTime, explained how a Twitter page is being used to lure victims.
[September 9, 2008, 10:33]
