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Twitter + Yahoo = Face the Buzz ?

Vince Buffon — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:09:58 +0000

This is the latest buzz. The board is set, and the game has begun. No sooner did Google launched the Buzz, the other online players started rearranging to face this challenge. Mind you, this is only the beginning. This New Year 2010 started with a bang. Google himself launching and marketing Nexus One was the first surprise. Then rolled out the. i-Pad, ever since when Steve Jobs, couldn’t wipe out that famous smile. Then came the Buzz, which is set to change a lot of online social media equations. This new twist is predictable; we were only wondering, when, what and where this would come from.

You got it right, Yahoo has struck a twitter deal. These two have decided to face the Buzz challenge by coming together. Yahoo and Twitter have come to an agreement to share data between their properties. Hope this is no knee jerk reaction to the Google Buzz. This was hardly called for, as Bing is about to take the data aspect for Yahoo, and, which will very likely include the Twitter data as well. Moreover, Yahoo’s front end elements already include Twitter integration including Flickr. How far will it work? This is a million dollar question?

Even if this is all the rest against Google, it would in no way be an easy proposition. Buzz, although is new, has a very strong backing of Gmail, which just cannot be ignored. With a solid Gmail presence on the internet, it is unlikely that no matter how you set the table, Buzz will only get to be a very strong word.

Twitter – Blabbersphere or semantics goldmine…

Vince Buffon — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 05:56:13 +0000

Everyone is going for it – 140 char tweets. Consumers, supporters, disgruntled men and women, corporate honchos, and big time authority bloggers are hurling it out at a furious pace ….

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Out of every 140 chars – only about 80 of them have some meaning – The rest 60, web-junk….That’s what the stats say.

Now, the legion of web marketers are thinking, as to how these 80 chars can be tapped for some intelligence – if it is at all there. Web semantics holds a bright light for the tweets out there. We all know that Twitter is one of the first places to look for any developing story – be it the Iranian elections, the Hudson river United airlines landing, or a simple remark from Matt about Google Caffeine…Twitter is the the most democratic billboard of the web.

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The sweet stuff will be – if the tweets can be bundled into blocks of information and this blocks of trends / info are visible graphically. So, for example, you are looking for the latest on MJ burial, then in one corner – Let’s say ‘Tweet Corner’ – One balloon / 3D cube exists for the tag ‘MJ burial’. The size of the info-block will obviously be in the ratio of the number of tweets & the number of meaningful characters in the tweets…

So long from CopperBridge corridors..

Trademarking ‘Tweet’ – Its not Twitter

Vince Buffon — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:57:09 +0000

Who else would want to trademark ‘Tweet’ ? Well, its not Twitter for sure. After a couple of tries, Twitter failed to trademark its own creation.

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When Twitter requested for the reasons of denial – it was a surprise to them too.

Apparently, many other companies had applied for trademarks of terms which were very similar to ‘tweet’. According to U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) “Other trademark applications by the firms TweetMarks, Cotweet and Tweetphoto, and said there was a “likelihood of confusion.” ”

So, it seems that the followers have overtaken the leader as far as ‘tweet’ is concerned, But Biz Stone, founder of Twitter was far from worried and even appreciated the legion of twitter related firms like TweetDeck, TweetMeme, Tweetie, BackTweets, Tweetboard -who have been instrumental in making ‘Tweet’ a household name….