Eric Schmidt Interview: Google is ‘Unlikely’ to buy Twitter

In this interview with Eric Schmidt, Charlie Rose asks the Google CEO a range of questions, from the origins of Google’s advertising model, to the monetization of YouTube, to whether the search giant would consider buying Twitter. The interviewer turned to the concept of the digital divide, and the role technology companies have played to … Read more

How Twitter’s Spectacular Growth is Fueled by Unexpected Uses

Twitter co-founder Evan Williams spoke at a recent TED conference about the founding of what has become today’s most exciting social networking tool. Williams, who was also involved in the founding of Blogger, describes how Twitter arose as a side project at start-up company Odeo. What struck me is how much of Twitter’s current functionality … Read more

Skittles Viral Campaign Holds a Mirror to Twitter

Skittles, a candy produced by Mars Incorporated, created a bit of an online uproar on March 1 when they made a dead simple, yet effective change to their web home page, www.skittles.com. Instead of a rainbow-colored product site as one would expect, users saw a Twitter feed for the search term Skittles.  The page was … Read more

B2B, Social Media and Twitter – an Interview with Ann Handley of MarketingProfs

B2B, Social Media and Twitter – an Interview with Ann Handley of MarketingProfs View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: btob b2b) I recently had a chance to catch up with Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer at MarketingProfs. Ann has developed a successful online presence for MarketingProfs on popular social networking site, Twitter (see … Read more

Help, I’ve Been Tynted!

Here’s a tool which will certainly allow for much amusement. And it could also be a great way to communicate feedback on web page usability or content. Tynt is a program which allows users to add text, drawings, highlights and other fun things to web pages. These can be shared with others by email or … Read more