While most people think of Twitter as a marketing tool, which it is, it can also be used to replace or augment other business activities.  Businesses can even save costs by using Twitter for some of their activities.  In this post, we are exploring some of the business areas where Twitter can help you bring [...]

Finally, Google has started taking the real-time search seriously.  Today, I was searching for information about a company and Google came up with Twitter updates by that company in the search results.  Then I tried this feature with several other queries and Google was bang on target in the results from the real time web.

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If you are a heavy Twitter user, chances are that you do not have time to catch up   on other sources of news and updates.  So, what if you are looking for movie reviews; not to worry, you can be hooked on to Twitter and still find which movies are being voted up or down [...]

Newstex, a content aggregation and delivery network, has launched a new service named NewsTwits.  The company also has similar services for aggregating blogs, news, financial content, entertainment etc. meant for content distribution networks and enterprises.
The new service collects licensed Twitter content from select Twitter users and then uses its to aggregate and deliver to distributors [...]

If you want to show a Twitter message by someone on your tumblr page, blog or website, use tweetshots.  The service allows you to create screenshots of Twitter tweets that can be embedded in any web page.  They also have integration with Tumblr to let you post screenshots directly to your Tumblr page.
If you go [...]

Though there are plenty of Twitter visualization tools already available in market but that does not stop people from coming out with something new which visualized the Twitter conversations and relationships.

TweetWheel is another entrant in this space and it lets you find out who all amongst friends of a Twitter user know each other in [...]

Twitter visualization is common but TwittEarth, a new service which shows Twitter public timeline on a 3D Earth, adds a new dimension to it with cool avatars plotted on the globe according to the location of the users along with their message.

TwittEarth is using Papervision 3D engine for the 3D Earth model and Yahoo Local [...]

ZDNet is reporting that Twitter has been banned in Dubai following the arrest and subsequent release of the UC Berkeley student who sent a message “Arrested” to his friends using Twitter and got help from his friends and the U.S. embassy.
People accessing Twitter from Dubai are getting a message that the site has been [...]

When Max Kiesler proposed Emily Chang for marriage on Twitter, the entire world of Twitterers witnessed a nice and sweet use of Web 2.0.

Now, we also have a not so good use of Web 2.0 in the form of a video posted on YouTube by Tricia Walsh-Smith, wife of Shubert Organization’s president Philip Smith. [...]

For some people Outlook is just inevitable; either by choice or otherwise.  Here is a list of 12 add-ins and toolbars which will enhance your Outlook experience and make the madbox inbox more social and productive.  These plug-ins will help you derive more value from almost all components of Outlook i.e. the email, addressbook and [...]