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Why The Big Fuss Over Microblogs?

Why The Big Fuss Over Microblogs?microblogging as part of bloggingTrue story, I came to this blog posting and read it because I follow ZDNet on Twitter. Thats the main reason I use microblogging, to promote my blog while seeing who's updating their's, and about what.However you make an interesting...

Tags: Blogging, Microblogs

Discussion threads 2008-10-06

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Enterprise 2.0 Case Study: Following Zappos

Zappos spends about $300,000 a year on utilizing the various tools of digital communications such blogs, microblogs and streaming video as customer interaction channels. That's a good though not easy to quantify investment---considering the online retailer garners $1 billion in annual revenue. But when it comes to customer service the...

Tags: Enterprise 2.0, Zappos, Web Site Development, Retail, Web Technology, Digital Video, Corporate Communications, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet, Personal Technology, Marketing

Case studies 2009-06-06

Novell PlateSpin Recon 3.6

Novell recently launched a new version of PlateSpin Recon, version 3.6.  I've been watching both Novell and PlateSpin, the company Novell acquired a while ago (see Novell acquires PlateSpin: Will everything fall to the floor? and Additional thoughts on Novell acquisition of PlateSpin) for a long time.  It is pretty...

Tags: PlateSpin Inc., Novell Inc., PlateSpin Recon 3.6, PlateSpin Recon, Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Servers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky

Blog posts 2009-05-12

Pingle 1.0 (Mobile)

Pingle is a client for the Ping.FM social networking aggregator service. With Pingle, you can use your iPhone to post text, photos, and location updates to all your blogs, microblogs, and social networks at once.Supports Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, FriendFeed, Flickr, Wordpress, Blogger, Brightkite, Livejournal, LinkedIn. Post pics from the camera...

Tags: Mobile, Photograph, Apple iTunes, Robert Sanders, Pingle, Social Networking, Digital Music, Digital Media, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2009-01-28

Enterprise 2.0: Progress is mixed, but experimentation is cheap

The state of enterprise 2.0 reveals spotty progress and a separation between key technologies. For instance, wikis are in, podcasts are out and blogs are somewhere in between within the corporation. In two Forrester reports here and here, the research firm hits on a few key themes:...

Tags: NewsGator, Enterprise 2.0, Forrester Research Inc., Web 2.0, Wiki, RSS, Internet, Online Communications, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-04

Why The Big Fuss Over Microblogs?

I microblog.Why? The truth is, I learn by doing and by speaking with others who do. So I dabble with Twitter, Plurk, Pownce, Spoink, Rakawa, Tumblr, Utterli, Yammer, FriendFeed, 12seconds, and probably a few others that I signed up for and forgot to use. I have found a nice collection...

Tags: Mobile, Fuss, Tool, Productivity, Web 2.0, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Gil Yehuda

Blog posts 2008-10-06

IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebEx

IBM launches beta of 'Bluehouse,' eyes Cisco's WebExWhy the big fuss over microblogs?The current pattern of Web 2.0 innovation starts with the incubation and socialization of a concept in the consumer space. For many vendors, this is just baiting the hook. Once these behaviors are socialized, maybe the most devoted...

Tags: Bluehouse, IBM Launches, WebEx Communications Inc., Cisco Systems Inc., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-05

A distributed alternative to Twitter must respect what already exists

Lots of talk over the last few days among Twittervangelists about the need for some kind of open source and fully distributed version of Twitter to protect against the outages that continue to plague the service. "We're all creating artifacts and connections that are even more fragile...

Tags: Twitter, Branding, Marketing, Steve O'Hear

Blog posts 2008-05-05