January 11, 2010 10:09 AM Globe Staff Dunkin’ Donuts, a company that so prizes brevity that it shortened the spelling of doughnuts to donuts, is launching a Twitter contest that challenges all hands to extol the virtues of its iced coffee in the tersest of tweets. “Beginning Jan.11, ‘followers’ of @DunkinDonuts on Twitter are invited to [...] Read more »
The FBI Adds New Widgets And Facebook Quizzes To Its Social Media Arsenal
Jason Kincaid TechCrunch.com Friday, January 8, 2010; 10:36 AM A couple times a year, the FBI reaches out to let us know about their latest social media tools in the war against the world’s most notorious criminals. Today, they’ve detailed some of the latest additions to their growing arsenal. The first is a new Video Widget [...] Read more »
2009 Social Media Year in Review
Twitter Hiring Workers to Turn Tweets into Money
Alexei Oreskovic SAN FRANCISCO Fri Jan 8, 2010 7:44pm EST SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter, the popular but money-losing microblogging service, is hiring engineers and specialists who can help turn it into a money-maker. The 2-1/2-year-old Internet start-up, whose short text messages or “tweets” have become a global social phenomenon, is building up a team [...] Read more »
Ford Adds Twitter, Pandora and Stitcher Apps to Cars
The Ford Motor Co. is betting that motorists will want to tweet while driving. At the Consumer Electronics Show, the automaker unveiled plans for new Web-connected dashboard technologies that include OpenBeak, a mobile Twitter application formerly known as TwitterBerry. The app will be part of the SYNC platform in Fords, Lincolns and Mercurys. Drivers will [...] Read more »