Twitter is being differentiated by being called a “ Help Engine “ I think it’s getting us closer to the KM productivity (sense-making) aim that knowledge sharing and knowledge transfer has always aspired to, which is: finding the right information at the right time. Help Engine. Search for: facts/reference. learning. MORE >>

Should that prove true, another reason to make that Yahoo/MSFT search deal happen. Details at All Things D : Yahoo-which has stuck to its guns by staying in the search business, even though many think it is a losing game and should be sold off to Microsoft-has lost a key engineer in that arena to, uh-oh, Microsoft. MORE >>

All the top players here in the US - Google, Facebook, Apple, Twitter, Yahoo, Microsoft - are driven by the value created by their developer base. Yeah, I said Yahoo. Well, I can't speak to whether or not the company has the right lineup of talent, either management or engineers. And how does Yahoo lure them? MORE >>

For their new "Purple Pedals" campaign, Yahoo has dispatched a handful of GPS-enabled bicycles equipped with cameraphones that automatically shoot and upload photos to Flickr to riders in cities all over the world, from San Francisco to New York and soon, to Singapore, Denmark and the U.K. Say hello to the bike's Control Panel. MORE >>

Yesterday's news about Yahoo's layoffs was well received by Wall Street (which seems to love layoffs in every sector except its own), and part of the optimism about Yahoo's future seems to lay in folks expecting Yahoo and Microsoft to finally get around to doing a search deal. Yahoo and AOL will merge. We shall see. MORE >>