Twitter is planning to charge brands for using the micro-blogging website – Marketing

Co-founder Biz Stone told Marketing: ‘We are noticing more companies using Twitter and individuals following them. We can identify ways to make this experience even more valuable and charge for commercial accounts.’ He would not be drawn on the level of charges. Stone said it could also create revenue-generating features to tap into the way brands use Twitter as a hybrid marketing and customer-service tool. But Bob Pearson, vice-president of communities and conversations at Dell, said: ‘If it becomes complicated and costly, our instinct would be to move elsewhere.’ Robin Grant, managing director of social media agency We Are Social, said Twitter could charge for display ads or to access customer information for marketing.

»»»

New note at ‘longest concert’ – BBC

Another note from a piece by a US composer has been played in what has been called the world’s slowest and longest concert. The church organ in the German town of Halberstadt played the next – seventh – chord of John Cage’s As Slow As Possible work. The performance began in 2001 and is scheduled to last a total of 639 years.

»»»

Mac cloner forces Apple’s hand-OSX for all The Inquirer

Mac-cloning upstart Psystar, which has been a thorn in Apple’s corporate side for months now, has won the right to persue a counterclaim against the Cupertino Cabal which, if it is succesful, could feasibly lead to any old Tom, Dell or HP being allowed to sell computers preinstalled with the sacred OSX. Psystar is claiming that Apple abuses copyright laws by insisting that its software, including its operating system, can only be installed on Apple branded equipment.

»»»

Cuba to keep Internet limits after fiber optic cable Sydney Morning Herald

WHEN Cuba managed to get a proper connection to the world wide wibble after it built a new fibre optic cable to the rest of the world, pundets thought it would lead to a freeing up of information to the country. However it turns out that despite having all the bandwidth it can eat, Cuba is going to parcel out internet access to a privileged few.

»»»

Mexico to Require Mobile Phone Users to Be Fingerprinted OverClockers Club

In an effort to crack down on crimes including extortion and kidnappings, Mexico passed a law requiring all mobile phone customers to be fingerprinted. The law, which goes into effect in April, will give mobile phone companies one year to establish a database of their clients including fingerprints. The law also requires phone companies to store call information, text and voice messages for one year. The law is in reaction to the growing number of criminal gangs in Mexico, currently around 700, that use cell phones to extract payments from extortion and kidnap victims and their families.

»»»

Marijuana or booze? Restaurant must decide The Star

Kindos owns Gator Ted’s Tap & Grill in Burlington. Four years ago, he asked a marijuana smoker to step away from his front door. The medically licensed toker complained to the Ontario Human Rights Commission of bias against a disabled person. He won. Kindos was about to pay the fine and post obligatory signs saying, “We accommodate medicinal marijuana smokers,” when a different government agency told him he could lose his liquor licence. Serving anybody possessing a controlled substance prescribed or not is against the law. “Heads I win, tails you lose,” Kindos said yesterday. The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal will hear the case this summer.

February , 2009

---

Use free p2pnet newsfeeds for your site. It`s really easy!
Subscribe to p2pnet.net | | rss feed: http://p2pnet.net/p2p.rss | | Mobile – http://p2pnet.net/index-wml.php

---

Net access blocked by government restrictions? Use Psiphon from the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto. Go here for details.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 at 4:29 pm and is filed under P2P. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

HOME

Viewed 2556 times