
@spendmatters — Putting Our Twitter Game Face (back) On
For those who followed Spend Matters’ (@spendmatters) Twitter account for the past few months, I know it’s been a quiet time from an update/tweet perspective. A few recent conversations with folks ten years my junior, however, convinced me to once again consider the advantages of this new medium from a business perspective. Both of the […]

Intelligent Middleware in the Realtime Enterprise
Image via CrunchBase Enterprise microblogging has been gaining in popularity in the last year. Companies like Socialtext, Socialcast, Status.net and others have developed some absolutely stunning and low cost enterprise platforms. Each of these platforms has a rich set of APIs and can be customized with varying degrees of flexibility. Some take their cues from […]

Why Twitter Implemented Retweets
In a thoughtful post, Ev explains the thoughts behind why twitter implemented Retweets. There are a lot of good reasons for adapting this user generated convention into mainstream use. MG Siegler, Sean Bonner and others provide some insight into how…