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Yammer wins the TechCrunch50 Award

So, this is the case of Twitter going into the corporate world as Yammer. Yammer operates on the question - “What are you working on?” instead of the overarching question of Twitter which is “what more...
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TwitHire: Tweet Job Board Launched

TwitHire is a free job board service for Twitter. TwitHire allows employers to promote job opportunities to the Twitter community by simply tweeting.

http://twithire.com/ more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Web 2.0  |  

Twitter May Buy Summize

A source close to Twitter says that the two companies have been in discussions around a merger over the last couple of weeks, but won’t comment on whether an actual sale has occurred, or the terms of more...
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Changing Startup Culture: Ning, Twitter Viral VC Ventures

Donna Bogatin writes that of the Ning assumption that visions of fast-growing, highly scalable, multi-billion dollar viral (not so serendipitous) hits must be highly financed if the end-game of a lucrative more...
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Acquisition: Twhirling Seesmic's Underweb

Ross Mayfield shares his wisdom on the latest buzz on the acquisition drama that is unfolding (first revealed by TechCrunch): Seesmic of San Francisco has acquired the Twitter client Twhirl and thus makes more...
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4 Startups: Taking the Pulse of the Twittersphere

Josh Catone examines four startups that are trying to build off the success of Twitter and provides their pluses and minuses. These are: Twitter Census, Twitter Answers, Straw Poll and TwittPoll. So, more...
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Another Twitter For Pictures Twitxr is

Fon company founder Martin Varsavsky has announced that his company which has built the largest WiFi community is now coming out with a new offering - Twitter with pictures or video and thus enters the more...
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Twitter's Open Platform Advantage

Twitter from the beginning has kept itself open, resulting in many applications based on its API. The old perception is that closed data is a competitive advantage. The new reality is that open data is more...
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The Rise of Twitter as a Platform for Serious Discourse

ReadWriteWeb is reporting that Twitter has captured our imagination and bloggers in particular and become a new hybrid of chat, social networking and blogging. Further Josh adds "Twitter still exists outside more...
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Introducing Prologue - competition to Twitter

Happy with Twitter but not fully and therefore Joseph Scott and Matt Thomas decided to tackle this problem and within a few days they had a new theme for us: Prologue. Imagine it like a group Twitter. more...
Discuss  |  Topic: Online Apps and Widgets  |