Time says Twitter will change business
This week’s Time cover essay by Steven Johnson, “How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live,” doesn’t deliver on its title promise. Johnson recounts how he was at some important egghead conference, and — OMG! — people tweeted onto the big screen from outside the event. He told that same story about blogs in 2003.
More interesting is the much longer package of articles on Twitter as a business tool by financial news site 24/7 Wall St…. Continue Reading
Want to explore the Time 100? There’s an (AIR) app for that
In case you didn’t get enough of Time’s list of the 100 most influential people (which this year includes such highlights as Ashton Kutcher writing about Twitter’s founders, and singer Rick Astley writing about 4chan creator Moot), you no longer have to settle for just reading the list and the resulting coverage. That’s right, friends, you can also explore the list as a spinning globe of Very Important People, via an application that runs on… Continue Reading
Roundup: Facebook search; Business 2.0 folds; Silverlight launches; and more
Here’s the latest action:
Facebook to launch people search in one month — Facebook will let search engines find and display very basic information from your Facebook profile, including only your name and the option to message you or friend you, it announced early this morning.
This way, if somebody searches for you on Google, this “public” page will show up — making it even easier for prospective employers to know where to find you on Facebook, and… Continue Reading