Most people are probably following you to hear about more than what you had for lunch.
You may not be microblogging yet, but your customers are.
Microblogging is all about sharing media - be it text, images, or videos. We've never talked about video microblogging, but there are a couple good platforms for participating in the video world.
Part of the appeal to microblogging is that it enables people to send and receive information quickly. Sometimes messages and memes take on viral momentum due to the simplicity of the medium, including a case where a young girl from South Carolina went missing and users utilized their networks to spread the word. How Do You [...]
Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008
Having trouble selling Yammer to your coworkers or management team? We’ve raved about how they won the Tech Crunch 50 this year and how much we like the service, but maybe that’s not enough. If you can at least get your team inside the app and get them to start playing with it, chances are they [...]
Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2008
Martin Gomez has taken the liberty of building a plugin for Firefox that allows you to interact with Plurk using a small sidebar. Plurkybar is “an immensely simple Plurk sidebar for Firefox” that you can download, install, and be using within minutes. It’s set to automatically refresh every minute so your timeline will stay up [...]
Monday, Dec. 1, 2008
The Pownce Blog was headlined today with news that is sure to shake up the microblogging world. Pownce employees Leah Culver and Mike Malone will be heading to Six Apart, a company specializing in blogging tools and personalized services to help bloggers become successful. Due to this purchase, Pownce will be shutting down its services [...]
Monday, Dec. 1, 2008
In an announcement released Wednesday last week, the Twitter team dropped outbound delivery of SMS messages to Canada. They’ve already dropped the axe on outbound SMS to Europe a while back, so this isn’t anything new. It’s still somewhat disappointing to see that flavor of SMS go away. Unexpected changes in our billing have forced us [...]
Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008
We received a Google Alert recently that led us to this blog run by Plurk user @kupy. What he’s done with his blog is transform it into what looks like a Plurk timeline. This is something that I’ve never seen before, and is actually pretty well done all the way down to the JavaScript behaviors [...]
Friday, Nov. 28, 2008
The implementation of Twitter Search has enabled users to leverage data captured by Twitter in more ways than we can imagine. You can do queries on keywords, get RSS feeds to track discussions and much more, but where Twitter Search falls short is in real-time Twitter tracking. Enter Jazzy Chad (@jazzychad) and Tweet Grid. Tweet Grid [...]
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Rob is one of the founders of Microblink. His interests include how people are using microblogs and the community growing around them.
Mike writes and edits for Microblink day-in and day-out. He is known as the marketing guy and handles most of the microblogging accounts.
Mark writes development-oriented posts as well as news items. He's not afraid to dive headfirst into technical topics for the sake of the team.