Twitter Has Been Officially Fighting Spam for a Week. Results?
| Last Thursday Twitter officially announced its war on spam on the microblogging service and provided some details on what measures would be implemented. Basically they hired a dedicated person to track accounts engaging in suspicious activities, suspending and reviewing these accounts to either completely remove or restore if the account owner is found to be not guilty. One of the metrics used is the number of Twitter users blocking this or that particular users (I suggested that Twitter should have […] |
- Twitter Refines the War on Spam
08/22/2008, 8 comments
- What’s Considered Spam On Twitter?
05/07/2008, 2 comments
- Long-awaited Spam
01/10/2007, 2 comments
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| I wonder when Twitter will finally notice how many people come up with creative ways to use Twitter for business while Twitter keeps earning nothing at all off those millions of users participating in the micro-blogging community. Right now it looks like Twitter is determined to continue ignoring this same as it has been doing until now.In the meanwhile today we are watching TwittAd covered on TechCrunch - and this will be sure to bring some initial visibility to the […] |
- comScore Will Measure The Revenue Potential of Ad Networks
08/12/2008, 0 comments
- Arzoola Working to Increase Privacy on Craigslist and Apparently Be Acquired by Craigslist
08/04/2008, 2 comments
- Ray’s web 2.0 business minitests: CollectiveX
11/02/2006, 2 comments
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| No doubt, Google is the largest internet giant that determines exactly how the market operates and how other players behave online. What’s more, acquisition by Google is certainly one of the most appealing exit strategies for many of the newly-launched startups - this exit strategy is often the most financially rewarding one and it offers a huge opportunity for further growth of a product with the help of Google’s engineers, servers and money. And even though many startups have been […] |
- Why Do People Google “Internet”?
08/23/2008, 19 comments
- Rollyo - Your Customized Search Engine
12/27/2006, 0 comments
- Site605 - Combining Strengths of Google and Mahalo
05/02/2008, 2 comments
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| Back in my university years when I studied philosophy I once wrote a paper on crowd thinking and behavior. That experience taught me that crowd is a very dangerous phenomenon because a crowd rarely can be reasonable and people can be easily manipulated to follow guidance from any leader clever enough to issue orders a crowd will understand.Unfortunately now that I watch web 2.0 as an industry I often notice classical examples of crowd thinking here where people who are […] |
- SocialOyster – A Very Fresh and Promising Approach to Lifestreaming
08/03/2008, 8 comments
- FriendFeed: The New Echo Chamber
05/02/2008, 35 comments
- I Gave Up To Twitter. Have You?
06/10/2007, 7 comments
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Sphere: Related ContentUkrainian School Teachers against Computer Science
| Today we have a very peculiar piece of news from Ukraine - both funny and at the same time very sad. Same as the rest of the world Ukraine is getting ready for the back to school day. In the meanwhile teachers in the region of Dnepropetrovsk participated in a conference of educators on Wednesday.The questions discussed at the conference included equipping schools with computers and teaching children the basics of computer science in schools. The results of the discussion […] |
- Crossing The Law - Web 2.0?
01/12/2007, 0 comments
- Yahoo! Teachers Online Utility Announced
09/19/2007, 1 comments
- What Will You Choose for Your Child: Some Porn or a Video Game?
08/11/2008, 7 comments
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Sphere: Related ContentRussia Comes for Money: Yandex Schedules IPO for 2009
| Last week we published a post about Yandex, one of the most successful Russian internet businesses. The post was based on an interview with Yandex’ co-founder published in Times of London. The article described numerous successes of the search engine in Russia and the company’s plans for expansion: and the expansion means opening an office in San Francisco, hiring a former Yahoo vice president and announcing plans for IPO. Namely, the article read:“This autumn Yandex is planning to float on […] |
- Yandex Proves We Don’t Have Bears on the Streets in Russia
08/25/2008, 31 comments
- Google Monopolizes Contextual Ads Market Further – Buys Russian Begun
07/18/2008, 8 comments
- Venture Capitalism - Indispensable
11/30/2007, 1 comments
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Sphere: Related ContentBackType – a New Model of Handling Blog Comments
| We have already seen enough competition (I think) between services intended to help blog readers easier authenticate themselves to leave a comment on a blog and have all the comments from blogs supporting this or that service aggregated into one account: Disqus, SezWho, JS-Kit, IntenseDebate all work in the same field with slight variations of approaches. But unfortunately as blog owners choose different services to install on their blogs, readers end up creating accounts with each of the services.Today we […] |
- coComment – Manage Your Opinion
12/25/2006, 1 comments
- Voice2Comments: Give Voice to Your Opinion
12/26/2006, 3 comments
- See Yourself Everywhere With Gravatar
11/15/2007, 11 comments
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Sphere: Related ContentBackType – a New Model of Handling Blog Comments
| We have already seen enough competition (I think) between services intended to help blog readers easier authenticate themselves to leave a comment on a blog and have all the comments from blogs supporting this or that service aggregated into one account: Disqus, SezWho, JS-Kit, IntenseDebate all work in the same field with slight variations of approaches. But unfortunately as blog owners choose different services to install on their blogs, readers end up creating accounts with each of the services.Today we […] |
- coComment – Manage Your Opinion
12/25/2006, 1 comments
- Voice2Comments: Give Voice to Your Opinion
12/26/2006, 3 comments
- See Yourself Everywhere With Gravatar
11/15/2007, 11 comments
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Sphere: Related ContentBackType – a New Model of Handling Blog Comments
| We have already seen enough competition (I think) between services intended to help blog readers easier authenticate themselves to leave a comment on a blog and have all the comments from blogs supporting this or that service aggregated into one account: Disqus, SezWho, JS-Kit, IntenseDebate all work in the same field with slight variations of approaches. But unfortunately as blog owners choose different services to install on their blogs, readers end up creating accounts with each of the services.Today we […] |
- coComment – Manage Your Opinion
12/25/2006, 1 comments
- Voice2Comments: Give Voice to Your Opinion
12/26/2006, 3 comments
- See Yourself Everywhere With Gravatar
11/15/2007, 11 comments
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| Right after we were shown the upcoming FriendFeed beta featuring friend lists and some other interesting tweaks of the interface, people started sharing what else could make our experience of FriendFeed closer to perfect in the special room for discussions the team set up for everyone to share their feedback on the redesign. I believe that the team actually hoped to hear feedback only on how the latest version works and what people actually think about this version in the […] |
- Twhirl Catches a Much-Needed Performance Update
06/10/2008, 2 comments
- How to Ping Google
11/07/2006, 0 comments
- imo.im Multi-Protocol IM Client Now With Skype
08/05/2008, 3 comments
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Sphere: Related ContentForget Your Small FriendFeed Wishes, We are Having Dream Coming True
| Right after we were shown the upcoming FriendFeed beta featuring friend lists and some other interesting tweaks of the interface, people started sharing what else could make our experience of FriendFeed closer to perfect in the special room for discussions the team set up for everyone to share their feedback on the redesign. I believe that the team actually hoped to hear feedback only on how the latest version works and what people actually think about this version in the […] |
- Twhirl Catches a Much-Needed Performance Update
06/10/2008, 2 comments
- How to Ping Google
11/07/2006, 0 comments
- imo.im Multi-Protocol IM Client Now With Skype
08/05/2008, 3 comments
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Sphere: Related ContentEuropean Internet Population Rockets to 240 Million with Russia Accounting for 17 Million
| There is internet outside of the Silicon Valley - and here is another proof. comScore issued another press release about European internet audience and its immense growth over the year since June 2007. The released information includes various figures demonstrating changes in the number of internet users in 16 countries comScore tracks for its World Metrix. comScore only counts users accessing the web from home or office computers aged 15 and higher and excludes traffic from public-access computers and mobile […] |
- SpikeSource Opens up More Open Source possibilities
10/23/2006, 0 comments
- Google’s Begun Growing Very Fast
07/25/2008, 7 comments
- Yandex Proves We Don’t Have Bears on the Streets in Russia
08/25/2008, 31 comments
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Sphere: Related ContentEuropean Internet Population Rockets to 240 Million with Russia Accounting for 17 Million
| There is internet outside of the Silicon Valley - and here is another proof. comScore issued another press release about European internet audience and its immense growth over the year since June 2007. The released information includes various figures demonstrating changes in the number of internet users in 16 countries comScore tracks for its World Metrix. comScore only counts users accessing the web from home or office computers aged 15 and higher and excludes traffic from public-access computers and mobile […] |
- SpikeSource Opens up More Open Source possibilities
10/23/2006, 0 comments
- Google’s Begun Growing Very Fast
07/25/2008, 7 comments
- Yandex Proves We Don’t Have Bears on the Streets in Russia
08/25/2008, 31 comments
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Sphere: Related ContentIt Should Have Happened: Professional Branding Comes to Twitter
| I am sure that every Twitter user has already seen this or that example of marketing or promotion on Twitter. We have also seen ideas that popular users can monetize their accounts with huge numbers of followers by using some brand’s logo for their avatars and skinning for their entire pages. Today we finally see what should have been expected: marketing professionals offering their services to officially promote brands on Twitter (well, actually they seem to offer consulting services to […] |
- Out of Their Own Big Mouth
02/18/2007, 0 comments
- Forget the Twitpitch; How About Twitgotiations?
05/09/2008, 5 comments
- Get Expert Advice on BitWine
12/10/2006, 2 comments
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Sphere: Related ContentIt Should Have Happened: Professional Branding Comes to Twitter
| I am sure that every Twitter user has already seen this or that example of marketing or promotion on Twitter. We have also seen ideas that popular users can monetize their accounts with huge numbers of followers by using some brand’s logo for their avatars and skinning for their entire pages. Today we finally see what should have been expected: marketing professionals offering their services to officially promote brands on Twitter (well, actually they seem to offer consulting services to […] |
- Out of Their Own Big Mouth
02/18/2007, 0 comments
- Forget the Twitpitch; How About Twitgotiations?
05/09/2008, 5 comments
- Get Expert Advice on BitWine
12/10/2006, 2 comments
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