Sending tweets and getting the Twitter follower world informed about what you is one kind of micro blogging. Email sending is also a kind of micro blogging, depending on how many people you put in it. The difference between those 2 forms of micro blogging lies in the public/ private status. That’s on that status that Twittad tries to leverage the folks using Twitter to generate business. Are they able to make it? Read More

6 months to lose $3 billion in advertising. That’s what the US newspaper business has scored this year. For the big picture, it’s an unprecedent loss of revenue since 2006. Have a look at the chart below and you will understand. The question now is what would be the result of the loss. Would newspaper business become more and more trashy and uninteresting than ever since there’s less cash or would it make this business move to a new breed of revenue model? And what about the journalists? Read More

Mac vs PC campaign has started a wave of 1st class word of mouth and generated hundreds of amateur remakes of this campaign. That has also downgraded the Microsoft brand image and the one of their customers. Enough to ask one of the best communication agency at the moment, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, and Seinfeld to work on a communication plan to make the PC guy a hype guy. Here is the video. Read More

Twitter trend and lifestreaming, Twitter vs. FriendFeed and advertising, Facebook and advertising, Twitter to create a think tank, and reputation management. Those are the topics the most read here in August. Have a look at those articles if not already done. Read More

Google is developing a formula dedicated to make the web experience a better experience and a playground for content and communication: Youtube + Google News + Blogger + Google Adsense/ Adwords + Gmail + Google Tools + Google Analytics + Google Docs+ Google OpenSocial + Goole Android + Google Chrome. Chrome is the last chapter of a long series of application focused on the web experience and has been announced by many different sources by now, and confirmed by Google. The puzzle is solved and we now have to wait and see what would come out from it. Read More

I do play Rock Band with the Netvibes team, I do apologize but still it’s part of my job. But you definitely won’t see me playing JamLegend. Never. Why? I damn have a MacBook Air … and with such a device, no way to become any “Keyboard Hero”. But I’m pretty sure we’ll soon see some videos of companies challenging others with that new online game. If I was the community manager of JamLegend, the first thing I would do is go with a camcorder in every startup I know to showcase it and record CEO/ CTO and any people playing. Read More

Cherp.us is the first marketing & communication agency generated by Twitter. The first MarCom business to belong only to the Twitter eco-system. This agency focused on helping companies to create a dedicated strategy for Twitter and leverage all that service can do for companies. With about 1.3 million users and about 900 000 users across the USA that sounds good. More certainly Cherp would be focused on helping tech companies for the Silicon Valley. And above all a really nice move of Matthew Tharp to generate personal branding awareness. Read More

Office 2.0 conference (here the definition of the Office 2.0 concept) is one of the conference I had planned to attend. But things aren’t always going as smoothly as we wish and I wouldn’t be able to make it. I hope the panels and speakers next year would be as interesting as it is this year. Have a look at the schedule to get convinced and the speaker list to wish to have a speaker lounge access. If you’re around or willing to attend, Ismael, founder of that conference, has an offer startups (early stage ones in fact since you have to be a 5-people or less company) to help them grab some visibility and connect with interesting people. Read More

TipiT.to is maybe the next big idea for transferring funds over Twitter. I speak about next big idea because TipiT.to doesn’t actually send any funds, but send a notification email reminding you to pay over PayPal. A really interesting move for a company that has started business on tipping websites for their work (like you like what I’m writing and sharing and instead of buying me a beer you pay me the beer price over Paypal - read this article from Chris Garrett for more info about donation and buy-me-a-beer plugin). But the real challenge would be to be able to make people confident in such a tool like Twitter for payments. It’s so easy to type a wrong name… Read More

Jeff Bezos is one of my Top 5 more impressive and smart web innovators (with duo Page & Brin, Vint Cerf, all from Google, and Wales from Wikimedia). Creating and turning Amazon into what it is nowadays is simply unexpected and fabulous since it’s one of the main pillars of the modern Internet with Wikipedia and Google. And when he’s spending some money into Twitter, we can expect him to transform this potentially next generation standard into standard. Can’t wait to forget about this freaking whale … (was a bit scary, wasn’t it?). From Twitter Blog via Read/ Write Web Read More