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Interesting write-up. I've tested Tweetdeck on a couple of my iPhones and it rocks, and those who follow me know that Tweetdeck is my tool of choice on non-mobile devices; I use Twikini 0.26 on my Windows Mobile (yeah, 6.5 beta) devices...

Again, it boils down to: which one works for you ?

That said, I think that TD supporting cross-platform sync is very hot.

This is interesting, but FB is late to the game, IMHO. Facebook is certainly there in terms of user count (what, about 110M users?) but certainly nowhere on the RADAR as far as real time information search goes. In that sense, G, B (Bing) are far ahead and of course, Twitter is the real reference. T has critical mass and it will be tough for FB to get out of their "social networking" rut into the realtime social media search space.

Perhaps it's time for a JV between MSFT and FBOOK for a BingFace search , heheh ?

Now *this* is Government 2.0 in action.

Kudos to forward thinking San Fran officials...

Yet another brilliant viral marketing scheme (à la blogging job on a dream island a few months ago).

The weight limit as per the instructions with the board is 150kg or 330 lbs.

"give sites like Twitter a monopoly?"

It's done! The Twitter outages are prove of it - hypergrowth. The acceptance by the mainstream media of Twitter (Rick Sanchez of CNN being one of the first amongst many) was the first sign....

#mumbai pretty much galvanised Twitter as the reference for microblogging and replacing SMS in the short term... (for good or bad)

"unconfirmed report" is it... this isn't any sort of officially stated position by the Indian government, RAF or NSG. They have simply asked media agencies (including Twitter, of course, as Twitter is a media agency , albeit using the long tail and crowdsourcing) to exercise discretion in reporting on strategic moves by security forces at the various tactical levels in Mumbai....

Tworgasming... (sans commentaire)

Is all this yet another Twech Twubble ?

Another great piece Mark - thank you.

The "inside the firewall" component of the solution is what is key. Trust me, few enterprises are willing to relinquish control (at least total control) of enterprise apps, be it collaboration, document management, IM et al. to a pure cloud computing solution managed entirely by a private firm.

This is where your twhirl option becomes very interesting. Naturally, any enterprise systems admin will have to analyse this for due diligence issues surround IP ownership, not to mention enterprise IT compliance issues...

That being said, I find your post great for revealing this most interesting enterprise twitter option.

Rob

This is an excellent series of articles... I'm sure anyone with significant experience working in government (in any Canada and at any level) can see their organisation reflected in many of the examples cited in this story.

I can't wait to read part three...

Thanks!

An outright acquisition of FB by MSFT is indeed not off the table, IMHO. It would give MSFT the Internet user base (and datamine) that they so desperately want and need.

So when shall we see MSFT take the best social platform features of FB and integrate them even further into products such as SharePoint.

Perhaps we'll see FacePoint enterprise server... or ShareFace... or....

This just further shows that in a world of cloud computing, the infrastructure truly becomes mission-critical. Web server time outs, caching errors, and many points of failure (from the desktop to the server with all the hops in between) just add to the challenge.

It's the downside to having access to, and creating, your information using only the ubiquitous web browser.

We're experiencing the same challenges deploying Microsoft SharePoint which is also web-enabled collaboration, only in our case the servers are within our WAN/LAN and as such the risk is somewhat mitigated...

Sounds interesting - would love to try it out, and also explore if they will license the technology for internal corporate use...

Rob

Sounds interesting - would love to try it out, and also explore if they will license the technology for internal corporate use...

Rob

Interesting - but thet FB/Ads link URL is still showing is it "launching tonight".... hmmm me thinks many of the 300 staffers at the FacePlex are busily coding and checking their gBerries.... :)

Hopefully the advertiser (as I have represented clients thus far) on FaceBook Ads (or SocialAds) will be more successfuly than with FaceBook Flyers - with horrible CTR for the latter....

We are a Canadian company, and have also been a member of many of the various eBay affiliate programs for various countries (including the primary US eBay.com site) through CJ for several years now.

It is obvious that many CJ advertisers enable a geotargetting credential that will automatically decline publishers with a non-US address, but in the case of eBay, we managed to work around that.

OK... in fairness, it only lasted a few moments. Seems back up. :)

Very interesting! Managed to get the Stylish plugin and installed, but I suspect the Mashable effect on UserStyles.org (where one must get the styles) is a bit too much for their server to handle...

Moments ago at userstyles.org :

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