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  • Twitter hit with phishing attacks

    Twitter users who thought friends were directing them to a "funny blog" Thursday ended up experiencing something completely different: a phishing scam.

    Written by Robert McMillan22 May 09 09:31
  • Social Network Etiquette: Introducing Yourself

    One of the most fundamental rules of social networking etiquette: You must carefully consider who you "friend" or "connect" with on services like Facebook and LinkedIn. According to career experts, the people with whom you associate, in many ways, reflect upon you.

    Written by C.G. Lynch21 May 09 23:59
  • Twitter Tips: How to Catch Up After a Few Days Away

    If you don't go on Twitter for a few days, how do you find the good stuff you missed? Because the stream - the flow of twitter messages (tweets) that moves down your homepage - moves so quickly, it's hard to travel back upstream and find interesting messages.

    Written by C.G. Lynch20 May 09 02:15
  • Facebook and Twitter: Making Money Takes Back Seat to Growth Even in Economic Recession

    Despite the economic downturn, making money is not a concern for two of the biggest players in the Web 2.0 consumer market. During separate keynotes at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, executives from Twitter and Facebook said their companies aren't focused on creating a profitable business model anytime soon, telling the audience they were more interested in growing their respective sites and catering to end-users.

    Written by C.G. Lynch15 May 09 12:38
  • Twitter's Potential for Business Users

    Twitter, a social networking site that allows people to track each other by writing and exchanging short text messages, has spurred business technology leaders to investigate how they might utilize such a service to improve their organizations' ability to collaborate and communicate with colleagues and customers.

    Written by C.G. Lynch15 May 09 12:29
  • Five Things Twitter's CEO Has Learned About What You Are Doing

    Twitter cofounder and CEO Jack Dorsey got the idea for the real-time service working as a programmer in the dispatch industry as he figured out how to get messages to cabs, ambulances and bike couriers as efficiently as possible

    Written by C.G. Lynch15 May 09 11:46
  • Best (Free) Mobile Twitter Apps for BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile

    What are you doing?" That's the central question behind Twitter, the uber-popular microblogging/social networking service--and, at this point, cultural phenomenon. In 140-characters or less--brevity's a virtue, just ask Jack Dorsey, Twitter's cofounder and CEO--users enter status messages about what they're doing, reading, researching, pondering, whatever; and others comment or post their own "tweets." If it sounds simple, or basic, that's because it is.

    Written by C.G. Lynch15 May 09 11:10
  • Bringing the Twitter-like Experience to the Enterprise

    Many companies have utilized the power of Twitter — the short messaging service that enables discussions about current events, products and industry topics — for the purposes of marketing and customer service. But examples of bringing this technology, known as microblogging, into the enterprise for the purposes of collaboration remain nascent.

    Written by C.G. Lynch15 May 09 11:00
  • Twitter Tips: Three Ways To Deal With Twitter Spam

    As the amount of followers you have on Twitter increases, you might find yourself dealing with an increase in Twitter spam. Twitter spam derives from people who take advantage of you following them by sending you unwanted direct messages or merely by following you with the express intent of upping their follower count (meaning, they have no sincere interest in your tweets).

    Written by C.G. Lynch14 May 09 10:38
  • Negotiate Severance, Catch up on Tweets, Promote Your Work

    It's nearly impossible to think clearly when you're being laid off. Naturally, this is the worst time to consider a legally binding contract: the severance package that your employer may want you to sign, says Martha I. Finney, author of Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss. It's important to understand any severance package, says Finney. "Signing that severance package right then and there could cost you many thousands of dollars," she writes in Rebound.

    Written by Steff Gelston15 May 09 09:59
  • Socialtext 3.0: Bringing Facebook, Twitter and iGoogle to the Enterprise

    Socialtext, a Web 2.0 vendor that has sold social software (primarily wikis) to businesses for internal collaboration and knowledge management, officially launched Socialtext People (enterprise social networking profiles) and Socialtext Signals, an application that allows business users to share short messages (in 140 characters or less) inside the enterprise like consumers do on Twitter, the microblogging service.

    Written by C.G. Lynch15 May 09 09:52
  • Salesforce Integrates Service Cloud with Twitter

    Salesforce.com is working to integrate its Service Cloud customer-service platform with the popular messaging service Twitter, the company announced Monday.

    Written by Chris Kanaracus14 May 09 15:39
  • Twitter Tips: TweetDeck App Gets You Organized, Automated

    If you finally caught up with Twitter and found out what all the fuss is about, you now might be wondering: what the heck is TweetDeck? In short, TweetDeck is a helpful, no-cost application that will help you get more from Twitter by sorting through messages more efficiently than the regular version of the service provided on Twitter's website.

    Written by C.G. Lynch14 May 09 15:33
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