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Company & Product Profiles

10.12.09

Google Wave And The Dawn Of Passive-Aggressive Communication Company & Product Profiles, Facebook, Google, blog, gmail, google wave, twitter | Comments Off
We’re now a little over a week into the extended roll-out of the preview build of Google Wave. This is an important time for the service because many people can now finally start using it as they eventually may — which is to say, with their friends and colleagues. Of course, the backlash is also already in full-swing, as expected. But I can’t help but wonder if this backlash and the hype that it is a byproduct of, is blinding some to the larger picture. Google Wave is not just a service, it is perhaps the most complete example yet ...
10.12.09

Relevance Over Time Company & Product Profiles, blog, chronological, real-time | Comments Off
When email was first created in 1965 it was used as a method to communicate between time-shared mainframe computers. Email has rapidly evolved since then, with the evolution of rich desktop clients, corporate email systems and webmail. Despite the evolution in the core messaging system, and despite the explosion in use of email, the default method for accessing and viewing communications has remained the same: chronological order. The first webmail imitated earlier mail clients by displaying messages in chronological order. The desktop computing paradigm was folders and files, sorted alphabetically. The web paradigm for accessing information has in most cases become ...
10.06.09

Twitter Data Analysis: An Investor’s Perspective Company & Product Profiles, blog, data, investor, twitter | Comments Off
This is a guest post by Robert J. Moore, the CEO and co-founder of RJMetrics, a on-demand database analytics and business intelligence startup that helps online businesses measure, manage, and monetize better. He was previously a venture capital analyst and currently serves as an advisor to several New York startups. Robert blogs at The Metric System and can be followed on Twitter at @RJMetrics. A few weeks ago, my former employer led a $100 million investment into Twitter and I must admit that I was quite jealous of my former colleagues. Chances are they got the opportunity to ...
09.24.09

Google Steps Where Many Have Stumbled: Sidewiki Company & Product Profiles, DotSpots, Google, blog, google-sidewiki | Comments Off
By 2001 web startup Third Voice, which let people annotate websites via a browser plugin, was done. Website owners just didn’t like the idea of people “defacing” their websites with comments they couldn’t control. But the idea has lingered (really), and now Google is taking a shot at their own version of the service. It’s called Sidewiki, and it just launched. Sidewiki is part of Google Toolbar (and it will be built directly into Google’s Chrome browser). Users activate the service by clicking on a button and a sidebar appears to the left of whatever website is being viewed. The user can ...
09.23.09

Twitter Begins Emphasizing SMS Again Company & Product Profiles, blog, twitter | Comments Off
For a long time, it looked like Twitter and SMS were destined for a slow and painful breakup. While the functionality was originally a user favorite, as Twitter exploded in size, it looked like it would become too expensive to maintain. Twitter shut down SMS in several countries (in fact, all of them besides the U.S. and India). But even since Kevin Thau, Twitter’s head of mobile products and partnerships, came on board in January, SMS has seen a resurgence. And today it looks like Twitter is ready to emphasize the service again. Now, on the profile for any Twitter user ...
09.23.09

The Top Ten Twitter Apps On The iPhone Among Early Adopters Company & Product Profiles, Facebook, IM, Twitelator, appsfire, blog, boxcar, iPhone, iTwitter, shozu, tweetdeck, tweetie, twitter, twitterific | Comments Off
What are the top Twitter apps on the iPhone? It’s hard to say because the iTunes store doesn’t have a Twitter category (Twitter apps are lumped in under “Social Networking). But AppsFire, the iPhone app sharing service, might have an answer—at least for the early adopter crowd who tend to use AppsFire (i.e. people like you, dear reader). AppsFire looks at apps actually downloaded and kept on people’s iPhones. Based on a sample of 1,500 AppsFire members, the top ten Twitter apps on the iPhone are: TweetDeck Tweetie Twitterific TwitterFon IM+ Twitelator Pro Twitterrific Premium iTwitter ShoZu Boxcar Notice that 7 of the top ten Twitter apps ...