Analysis Status.net Could Point to the Future of Business Intelligence Few companies have captured the world's attention online in recent years as much as Twitter has. Rapid, structured, public communication between groups of people is not only a personal paradigm changer for many who have seriously explored the service - it's also an incredible opportunity to analyze a rich and dynamic set of data about… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Microsoft Microsoft Announces End of the Road for Encarta Microsoft's years-long-running multimedia CD-based encyclopedia product, Encarta, will be history by the end of the year. According to Ars Technica, Microsoft quietly announced the discontinuation date for Encarta to be October 31, 2009. Although the MSN press release doesn't go into too much detail on all the reasons why this decision was made… Phil Glockner View comments
web Setster: Let Your Clients Pick Their Own Appointment Times Setster is a new service, still in beta, that allows businesses to let their clients or customers book appointments with them directly through an online calendar widget. Setster supports working with multiple employee calendars (which they call providers) on the same login, as well as a catalog of services a client can choose from and a couple of… Phil Glockner View comments
NYT Reframe It Brings Facebook, Twitter, & Web Luminaries to its Annotation Tool Reframe It, a social web annotation tool we first reviewed last Fall, just announced that it has added integration with Twitter and Facebook to its features today. Thanks to this, users can now syndicate their annotations to both Twitter and Facebook, where they can continue their discussions with friends who are not using Reframe It… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments
News Look Out TinyURL; Bit.ly Gets Hot Silicon Valley Cash Link shortening services are so common you can't throw a stone online without hitting one, but TinyURL is the undisputed champ. It's one of the oldest, its name says what it does and despite repeated outages - its downtime is small enough that millions of people keep using it. TinyURL has also allowed incomprehensible amounts of value, both in… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments