Can Twitter Make Money?
At the microblogging company Twitter's San Francisco headquarters, in the sixth-floor conference room, founder Evan Williams was declining to tell me anything about the company's strategies to earn revenues when, suddenly, his cofounder Biz Stone blurted, "Whoa!" It was 10:10 a.m. on January 7, and it would prove to be the latest Twitter Moment, showing how far the service has moved beyond its early status as an amplifier of personal minutiae and confession. A minor earthquake had just struck: a magnitude 4.1 temblor centered 45 miles to the southeast. Throughout the Bay Area, thousands of Twitter users seized their smart ...
Fortune 500 companies using social media to reach customers
[caption id="attachment_832" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Laura Watkins, marketing coordinator for Chicago's Green City Market, posts on social media sites up to five times a day. Photo: Erik Unger"][/caption] Last year, United Airlines found a new way to use Twitter to reward customers and fill empty seats. In May, the Chicago-based airline began offering a limited number of Twitter-exclusive fare deals, or "twares," to domestic and international destinations. The last-minute specials are sent out once or twice a week and typically expire within one or two hours. Most sell out in seconds, a United spokeswoman says. "We want to give our followers something special ...
After an attack that required staggering skill and resources, the company threatens to quit China.
[caption id="attachment_825" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="Exit strategy? Flowers are seen placed in front of the headquarters of Google’s offices in Beijing. "][/caption] Google's threat to withdraw its operation from China has shed more light on a remarkably sophisticated computerized espionage network originating from the country, experts say. Last night Google announced that it would no longer participate in government censorship of the Chinese version of its site, Google.cn, and threatened to shut down its operations in China altogether. In a blog post, David Drummond, senior vice president of corporate development and chief legal officer at Google, wrote that the decision was taken in ...
Do blogs and tweets help a company’s bottom line? One startup thinks it has the answer.
[caption id="attachment_785" align="aligncenter" width="482" caption="Media metrics: With Spredfast, companies can evaluate how people read, pass along, or comment on content on social media websites over time. "][/caption] In retrospect, 2009 may be viewed as the year "social media" came of age: Facebook passed 350 million active users, Oprah made Twitter mainstream, and LinkedIn introduced a service to help recruiting agencies search the site for job candidates. But using microblogs, photoblogs, user-generated content, and even traditional blogs to interact with customers takes time and money, and some companies still question whether all that effort is doing them any good. So how does ...
Information technology’s next grand challenge will be to secure the cloud–and prove we can trust it.
[caption id="attachment_774" align="aligncenter" width="460" caption="Cloud crowd: Some 4,000 servers hum at IBM’s cloud computing center in San Jose, CA. Credit: Jason Madara "][/caption] In 2006, when Amazon introduced the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), it was a watershed event in the quest to transform computing into a ubiquitous utility, like electricity. Suddenly, anyone could scroll through an online menu, whip out a credit card, and hire as much computational horsepower as necessary, paying for it at a fixed rate: initially, 10 cents per hour to use Linux (and, starting in 2008, 12.5 cents per hour to use Windows). Those systems would run ...
We saw innovations in real-time search, streaming video, and an operating system for the cloud.
This year will be remembered for cloud computing, real-time search, and the appearance of Google's Web-based operating system. [caption id="attachment_765" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="Credit: Microsoft "][/caption] Real-Time Search The Web's dominant search company, Google, got some serious competition in 2009. Thanks to a long-awaited technology-sharing deal with Yahoo and a focus on product-related searches, Microsoft's revamped search engine, Bing, began nipping at Google's heels ("What's Microsoft's Bing Strategy?"). The physicist Stephen Wolfram also shook up the search-engine scene by developing a "computational knowledge engine" designed to provide all sorts of useful information via a search-like interface ("Search Me," "Alpha and Google Face Off," and "Wolfram ...
Top 10 Web Trends 2009 – 2010
We’re well into the current era of the Web or web trends, commonly referred to as Web 2.0 Features of this phase of the Web include search, social networks, online media (music, video, etc), content aggregation and syndication (RSS), mashups (APIs), and much more. Currently the Web is still mostly accessed via a PC, but we’re starting to see more Web excitement from mobile devices (e.g. iPhone) and television sets (e.g. XBox Live 360). Bearing all that in mind, here are 10 Web trends to look out for over the next 10 years… 1. Semantic Web The Semantic Web is about machines talking ...
Google Wave Opens Up to 1 Million Users
[caption id="attachment_751" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="Google Wave Opens Up to 1 Million Users"][/caption] When Google asked what you liked and disliked about their new real-time communication application, you unquestionably said that you wanted more invites to share with friends and family. Problem solved! Today Google decided to play Santa with Wave invites. It has just doled out significantly more invites to existing users. In conjunction with the invite rollout, Google() is also hinting that they’ll soon reach the 1 million user mark. The title of their post suggestively hints that “a million stamps” have been licked, which we take to mean that they’ve now ...
Google Gives a First Look at the Chrome OS
[caption id="attachment_732" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Operating browser: The user interface of Google's Chrome operating system, demonstrated in public for the first time on Thursday, is designed to feel exactly like a browser. The company says the operating system will make it easy for users to discover new Web applications and store their favorites through an application menu, shown above."][/caption] Google gave the first demonstration of its Chrome operating system today, at the same time opening the source code to the public. The company highlighted features that have grown out of what vice president of product management Sundar Pichai called "a fundamentally different ...
Web experts are designing technologies that can collect scattered bits of online conversation.
Popular videos and articles get reposted or discussed on dozens or hundreds of sites. But Web experts are now thinking about how to keep track of online conversation in real time, even when it's scattered all over the Web. A new crop of protocols aim to do just that. [caption id="attachment_728" align="alignleft" width="220" caption="Credit: Technology Review "][/caption] The protocols provide notifications when new content is available, rather than passively waiting for search crawlers or feed readers to discover the content. For example, pubsubhubbub, an extension to the protocols used today to syndicate content, can push content out to feed readers as it's ...
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