Found: The Point of Twitter

Hopefully, we're over wondering what the point of Twitter is and we can move on to how, exactly, using it or other social media can be good for business. Sometimes the biggest obstacle is just wrapping your head around something.The short and skinny of what is to follow is this: 

Small Business Marketing Unleashed: Local Search

I've written about it before, and I'll write about it again: the only phonebooks around my work desk are the ones raising it and the monitor a few inches higher than they'd otherwise sit.  Local search functions well from a consumer standpoint, and a session detailed how businesses can benefit from it, too.

Developers Asked To Play In iGoogle Sandbox

In a recent post that was about 125 words long, a Googler included the term "social" four times.  Keep Facebook, MySpace, and whatever else you like in mind, then, while learning about a new developer sandbox for iGoogle.

FriendFeed Benefits From Twitter Problems

Twitter: grabbing defeat from the jaws of success Amazing, Twitter has been half down all weekend long. Dave Winer and others have been writing about it. The problems have been covered on TechMeme and other places where one looks for interesting tech news.