March 8th, 2010
Monday, 8 March 2010
According to a New York Times article yesterday, the Obama administration will permit technology companies to export online services like instant messaging, chat and photo sharing to Iran, Cuba and Sudan. These countries are considered closed because of their repression of their populations. And according to Treasury Department TG-577 “to ensure that individuals in these countries can exercise their universal right to free speech and information to the greatest extent possible.”
This new general license will allow exports from the United States and US persons to persons in Iran and Sudan of software that allows communications through the internet in those countries. The goal is to allow SMS, Social Networking, email, web browsing have a greater ablity in these countries to export infromation from the grass roots level. Companies Microsoft, Yahoo, Google and others will benefit from the ability to export more of their services.
The influence of Twitter during the days after the June elections in Iran help to push this forward as a response. North Korea and Syria are not affected by today’s decision because the sections applied to them do rule out Internet Exports.
Categories: Technology, Thoughts
Tags: google, obama, social networking, techonolgy, twitter
March 4th, 2010
Online marketers should be familiar with Twitter as a instant communication tool. There are some great products that integrate well with your Twitter identity for a price. But what about those FREE or Open Source products, are they any good? Can I make productive use of them? And better yet, “Do they work?” Can I promote my business through social media?
Twtapps provides simple and FREE to use applications with no advertisements. You can of course upgrade if you are a power user. These apps helps you to engage with your customers, follower and create buzz around your product or services.
I use the BizCard application, you can connect with me below.
I also like the Event Manager and here is one for my business.
The also have application that provide your users with Survey and Poll questions to answer or you can give away Coupons or manage a GiveAway contest.
All in all this is a impressive set of tools that you can take advantage of for FREE.
Categories: Technology
Tags: business, social networking, Technology, twitter
March 3rd, 2010
Twitter Will Hit 10 Billion Tweets
About one year ago Twitter reached a huge milestone: one billion tweets. Four months ago, five billion tweets were served. And now, in about one day,
Twitter should reach another very important milestone: 10 billion tweets <- Read More.
Categories: Technology
Tags: business, social marketing, Technology, twitter
February 24th, 2010
It is being reported on the internet today that Yahoo and Twitter have a new deal that may be better then those others that Twitter has currently The first integration will be available “immediately,” and that is the real-time search integration.
Read more… Click Here
Categories: Technology
Tags: Internet Marketing, social networking, Technology
