Ross Mayfield put forth a pretty interesting question on Twitter (see below). Twitter. Twitter is referred to as a micro-blogging tool. The service allows people to post and read brief (140 character) messages (called Tweets) to the Twitter service. APIs allow numerous applications to extend Twitter in a variety of ways. MORE >>

Unlike some of the other social networking tools, Twitter doesn’t attempt to bundle all kinds of features and extras into its core product. That said, there are times when I need Twitter to do a bit more, and there are no shortage of tools out there to accomplish just that. What tools do you use to improve your Twitter usage? MORE >>

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This is the second in a series on an IBM social media press event I attended last week following part one posted yesterday. Jeff Schick, VP social software, mentioned that IBM Research has done a study on the implications of using social and infusing collaboration into commerce experience. Joan DiMarco next spoke on IBM Research. MORE >>

It works … for example, late last night I twittered a response to one of Jeremiah Owyang’s tweets pointing to his recent blog post about " What’s After The Social Web? The fact that SAP, Oracle and IBM are today all working with Twitter like updates is at least encouraging. Snip. ]. Startup Bubble? MORE >>