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Twitter needs archiving and timeline search

The constant stream of statuses and updates are overwhelming at times, but some of them are important. Marshall Kirkpatrick writes that Twitter is indeed saving all of our tweets, but we can't access them. In fact, the Twitter API only allows you to ring up a users latest 3200 updates....

Tags: Twitter Inc., Archiving, Marshall Kirkpatrick, Business Intelligence, Team Management, Search, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Management, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-09-26

Interview: SplashCast's Marshall Kirkpatrick

Interview: SplashCast's Marshall KirkpatrickWhat need does this meet?I mean I drop a windows media player control on the web page and link it to the content. All done...

Tags: SplashCast, Marshall Kirkpatrick, Marshall

Discussion threads 2007-04-10

Privacy means life beyond MySpace

Over at TechCrunch, Marshall Kirkpatrick compares version 3 of Multiply, with SixAparts recently launched, Vox. Both social networking sites differentiate themselves from the likes of MySpace, by giving users powerful privacy controls, so that they can choose exactly who is able to access their content. Its in this key area...

Tags: Social Networks, MySpace

Blog posts 2006-11-13

Vaudeville

This media showdown is getting really interesting. In no particular order, some comments about some of the players:Mike Arrington -- Why on Earth is he keeping Marshall Kirkpatrick in such a visible position. Nothing against the guy, he's a good writer and a competent reviewer, but he doesn't have a...

Tags: Nick, Marshall Kirkpatrick

Blog posts 2006-07-14

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5 looming questions about the Amazon-Zappos deal

Amazon's acquisition of Zappos is notable on a few fronts. The combination is largely complementary, but there are a few questions hanging. With any luck there will be a few answers on Amazon's second quarter earnings conference call. Among the questions about Amazon's $847 million purchase of...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Zappos, Mitchell, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld, Roi/Tco, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-23

Facebook - Snatching Defeat From the Jaws of Victory?

What on earth are Facebook doing? Imagine going into a stationery store and buying a Filofax personal organizer and then over time filling it with personal contacts info, photos and notes. You come home one night and it's no longer...

Tags: Facebook, Security, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-07-02

Why Facebook can't open up like Twitter: Life doesn't operate in 140 characters

No matter what Facebook does it never seems to make everyone happy. The latest hubbub: Facebook opens up its activity streams to third party developers, but doesn't go far enough. Why? Damn privacy.  ReadWriteWeb's Marshall Kirkpatrick makes a great argument that Facebook remains fundamentally close due to its...

Tags: Facebook, Twitter, ReadWriteWeb, Kirkpatrick, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Advertising & Promotion, Security, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-28

Beyond aggregation: finding the web's best content

Panel: Marshall Kirkpatrick (VP Content Dev, ReadWriteWeb ), Louis Gray (Author/Publisher, louisgray.com), Gabe Rivera (Founder/CEO, Techmeme), Melanie Baker (Community Mgr, AideRSS Inc), Micah Baldwin (VP Business Dev, Lijit Networks Inc) People are not reading their RSS readers anymore because of Twitter. Content is...

Tags: Google Inc., Web, Aggregation, Gabe Rivera, OneSpot, RSS, Channel Management, Search, Internet, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-03-16

The Web turns 20

It's hard to believe that just 20 years ago the Worldwide Web was merely a diagram. Sir Tim Berners Lee created a wonkish document dubbed "Information Management: A proposal"and created the infrastructure a lot of us depend on to a make a living. This was the Web 20 years...

Tags: Web, Channel Management, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-13

Your guide to SxSW Interactive 2009

During the second week of March each year, there is a mass pilgrimage of geeks from the San Francisco bay area to the heart of Texas. Not for BBQ, not for a sun tan, but for probably the best interactive web conference in the history of the world. ...

Tags: Facebook, Barbecue, Twitter, SXSW, Scott Beale, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2009-03-08

Chrome's EULA is a cut 'n' paste showstopper

When I said that CXO's wouldn't give Google Chrome a nanosecond's thought, I under-estimated. They'll give it about five seconds and then pass straight to the corporate legal department. Why? EULA Clause 11.1: You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that...

Tags: Google Inc., EULA, Chrome, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-09-03

A peek into Silicon Valley and beyond . . .

I enjoy being a journalist and reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. Most of my reporting is done the traditional way, with a notepad and pencil. Increasingly journalists have to do more, carry a camera, do podcasts, run video. Software engineers have to...

Tags: Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, Journalist, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing

Blog posts 2008-08-26

Internet brand-jacking: What can be learned from Exxon Mobil?

Exxon Mobil got "brand-jacked." About two weeks ago, someone named "Janet," believed to be a spokesperson for the oil company, started posting one-liner comments about the company on Twitter. There was no reason to doubt the legitimacy of the Twitter account. There are a lot of big-named...

Tags: brand, internet, exxon mobil corp., twitter, janet, branding, marketing, sam diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-07

Facebook censorship; Twitter raises another $15 million; Facebook's pending redesign

The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… Facebook censorship.  Facebook is blocking certain messages between users under the umbrella of spam prevention, reports Marshall Kirkpatrick over at ReadWriteWeb: "If you ever get the...

Tags: Facebook, Twitter, Kirkpatrick, Social Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-22

Comcast scoops up Plaxo: good move

In a move that surprises few people, Plaxo is being acquired. The surprise - at least for some - is that it is Comcast and not one of the usual suspects of Facebook or Google. Comcast is Plaxo's biggest partner and provides hosting for all Comcast email subscriber address books....

Tags: Plaxo Inc., Comcast Corp., Advertising & Promotion, E-mail, Marketing, Online Communications, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-05-14

Is all publicity good publicity?

There’s a well-known saying that all publicity is good publicity, but you have to wonder whether the team over at Radar Networks feel that way this morning. The company is behind Twine, which was unveiled to much fanfare at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Summit last November. Having...

Tags: Application, Network, Radar, Beta, Twine, Marshall, Aerospace & Defense, Semantic Web, Manufacturing, Internet, Paul Miller

Blog posts 2008-03-12

The Gmail password hijacking incident: When so-called helpful apps hurt

An application dubbed G-Archiver backs up your Gmail account to a hard drive with a not-so-nice twist: It swipes your user name and password. Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror outlines a chilling tale as told by Dustin Brooks, one of his readers. I was looking for...

Tags: Google Gmail, Password, E-mail, Business Ethics, Online Communications, Leadership, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-10

Why Twitter's failing

Right now, Twitter is a mess. Most of today, European users have experienced outages of varying length and even hard core Twitter fans are saying they've had enough. Some have talked of jumping ship to Pownce or Jaiku. Louis van Proosdij, in answer to TechCrunch France's Ouriel Ohayon offered: ...

Tags: Twitter, Marshall, Joyent, Rod Boothby, Patience, Manufacturing, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-01-31

Google and Facebook join DataPortability.org - better late than never

The big news is that representatives from Google, Facebook and Plaxo have joined Dataportability.org, a group setup to develop open standards to enable user data to be moved from one web service to another. Or as Marshall Kirkpratrick put it (over at Read/WriteWeb) "where users can take their data from...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, News, Social Networking, Channel Management, Web 2.0, Web Services, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-01-08

Facebook fbFund re-boots; tightens up terms and conditions

Facebook has sent out an email to those that have already applied to the fbFund, the company's grant for budding Facebook developers. Originally asked to submit applications by email, the social networking site is now asking interested developers to re-submit their proposals via a dedicated online application form. The reason,...

Tags: Developer, Facebook, E-mail, Online Communications, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2007-10-09