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Before and after: IT snapshot
Blogs Yes, yes, I finally updated my photo byline. It's long overdue, especially since the previous one was taken when I first...
May the new year bring good tech-ings
Blogs I'm feeling particularly melancholic this week as 2009 rolls in and we bid farewell to 2008. The past year wasn't a ...
Twitter tweaks terms of service
News Microblogging site assures users that they own their tweets while leaving "the door open for advertising" opportunities.
Tags: Web 2.0, Terms Of Service, photograph, API, Facebook, co-founder, blog, Web 2.0
Being Twitter deft or Twitter dumb: is that the question?
Blogs Social networking has assumed immense importance in our lives. Over the last few months, we have seen how a tweet, a pro...
Yahoo veteran named to MySpace CTO spot
News Alex Maghen, who previously served as the head of technology for MySpace Music, has tough road ahead of him, as News Corp.-owned site has fallen from favor in Silicon Valley.
Tags: Business Strategies & Functions, Web 2.0, MySpace, entertainment, chief technology officer, Facebook, CTO, exec, News Corp., Web 2.0
Lotus Connections gets Twitter-like updates
News IBM continues integrating social networking into its Lotus business collaboration tool by adding wikis and microblogging features.
Tags: Business applications, Web 2.0, Wiki, IBM Corp., social networking, File-sharing, collaboration, Microsoft SharePoint, Web 2.0
Using Twitter for work
Blogs Twitter is a popular micro-blogging service that lets you post short messages (up to 140 characters, similar to SMS) so ...
Another US$100 million for Twitter?
News Private equity firm T. Rowe Price and VC group Insight Venture Partners are leading the round, which will value the company at around US$1 billion, says report.
Tags: Web 2.0, T. Rowe Price Group Inc., Dashboard, analytics, TechCrunch, founder, valuation, Wall Street Journal, mutual fund, Web 2.0
10 open source projects worth checking out
Techguide The open source field is pretty crowded, but certain projects stand above the rest. Here are 10 tools and solutions you don't want to overlook.
Tags: Open source, Software engineering/development, Social Networking, Open Source, E-business, Google Inc., Feature List, Nuxeo, network, Tool
Google hopes to turn the river into a canal
News Searching on real-time services like Twitter is akin to standing in front of a firehose on a hot day: you'll get cooled off, but knocked over. Google wants to change that.
Tags: Search, Web 2.0, Google Inc., Tiger Woods, Twitter Inc., Web Page, Web 2.0, healthcare reform, Google News, Internet
Tweeting from the command line
Techguide Find out about a simple script that will allow you to send tweets from the command line.
Tags: Open source, Web 2.0, Script, Twitter Inc., Red Hat Inc., Web 2.0, Social Media, Vincent Danen, API, Canada
Security firms discover botnet on Twitter
News Account on the microblogging service can be used to host and control a botnet of infected computers, Symantec and Arbor Networks say.
Tags: Web 2.0, Twitter, Blogger, Security, distributed denial of service, computer, Arbor Networks, Symantec Corp., Facebook, security company
Summertime in the age of Facebook
Blogs For Filipinos, the arrival of summer means going on a vacation, usually to the beach. As a kid, I always looked forward ...
Google strikes a Twitter search deal, too
News Mere hours after a deal with Microsoft was announced to index real-time 'tweets' in Bing, Google posted on its blog that it has reached an agreement with Twitter, too.
Tags: Search, Web 2.0, Web logs, Facebook, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., Microsoft Corp., Web 2.0, social search, product manager
Phone calling coming to Twitter
News A beta service expected to launch Thursday will allow Twitter users to make voice calls to each other without needing to know someone's phone number.
Tags: Web 2.0, Web sites, Linden Lab, Voice Chat, social networking, Facebook, Second Life, Web 2.0, voice service
