In this post I’m going to look at 10 ways Twitter can really help your productivity, and 10 ways that it can waste your time. Here are ten ways Twitter can be a productivity tool: 1. I’m rarely stymied for long about issues with WordPress or questions about Facebook. Written by Aliza Sherman. Don’t even try. MORE >>

At events like this, which involve dozens of beta demonstrations of new products in development, a lot of the items blend together into a white noise of over-hype, but a handful of this week's debuts are intriguing. What product on this list are you most interested to try out for yourself? Photo by TechCrunch50-2008. MORE >>

Its Web interface is quite nice, and it has support for the broadest range of integration including: Outlook, Google Calendar, iCal, Xing, LinkedIn, Facebook, Ning, and your blog. Tags: Products Meetings suck. But if there's one thing worse than meetings, it's playing email tag to schedule them. It's the pits, isn't it? Sponsor. MORE >>

In the preceding paragraph, change “Harvard” and “university” to “Facebook” and – there you have it. Facebook was the product of a Harvard mindset – and probably could never have come from a place like Chicago or Berkeley (where I taught). MORE >>

This week’s announcement of Skype’s acquisition of GroupMe, and the recent introduction of Facebook’s Beluga-based Messenger, are part of something much bigger than group text messaging: The landscape of personal online communication is changing. Facebook wall posts, tweets, and Google+ posts, are the prototypical passive ones. Groups. MORE >>