Tips Tweeting Often and on Weekends is More Effective, Suggests Data How often should you post updates to Twitter for maximum impact? Is there a time of day that works best? What about a day of the week? These are the types of questions that Dan Zarrella is constantly trying to answer. Instead of relying on intuition and hearsay, however, the self-described "social media scientist" prefers to take a look a look… John Paul Titlow View comments
Application Virtualization Why Developers Matter in Your Virtualization Strategy Developers provide an insightful window into the challenges that come with virtualization. They're not the same as IT, and those differences highlight some important issues to consider when figuring out how business critical applications are deployed in a virtualized environment. Why? Aligning developers and IT is critical to the success of any… Alex Williams View comments
Apple Boxcar Spreading Beyond iOS, Onto Mac, Windows & Android All the time on the Web, things are happening. Comments are being left, blogs updated, messages sent, tweets tweeted, and so on. If you're an information junkie, then you don't want to know later, you want to know now. One way of knowing now is setting up a mobile notification app, like Boxcar, to let you know the moment everything happens when… Mobile Mike Melanson View comments
Google Google Goggles for People? Google Says No Plans for Face Recognition App [Updated] Facial recognition meets Search. We knew this was coming, right? CNN reports that Google is working on a mobile app that will use facial recognition technology to turn mobile phone photos into a means to identify people. The app would serve as a form of visual "search," displaying results including name and email address. Updated: Google says… Audrey Watters View comments
NYT Twitter's Dickbar Meets Its Demise When Twitter rolled out an update to its iPhone app earlier this month, it included a new feature that quickly became the bane of most upgraders' experience. The QuickBar permanently hovered at the top of your tweet-stream, giving you a real-time update of trending topics. After resoundingly negative feedback that included the new label by… Social Audrey Watters View comments