Social networking

9 Social CRM Tips For 2011

Facebook Just Overtook Yahoo in unique visitors and you Still Have no Social CRM Strategy? Facebook just overtook Yahoo by a comfortable amount to become the third largest website in the world according to comScore. The world’s leading social networking...

MangoSpring MangoApps For Better Corporate Collaboration

Months back you may recall I covered Cisco Quad, a corporate social networking solution for truly massive companies. While many organizations use Microsoft SharePoint as a social solution, another option is to turn to MangSpring’s MangoApps, a solution which takes the...

MagicTalk and MagicJack Plus Coming Soon

I’ve followed the IP communications business for well over a decade and in 1997 my company TMC decided to launch a publication called Internet Telephony to focus on what we believed would be a massive trend towards IP communications. At first...

TMC Seeks Product Marketing Manager

How TMCnet Global Online Communities look online (Click to enlarge or go to TMCnet to see a larger version) (Channels run along the left border)Due to great success achieved by TMC's customers, we have seen massive growth in our online...

Gogobeans Wants to Manage Your Digital Life

My digital life is a mess and I’m not afraid to admit it. I have videos on a few sites and photos on a few others. I’ve got numerous hard disks with photos and I am not 100% sure they...

My Favorite Headline

Best headline I have seen in a while is certainly Twitter and Apple's Ping To Make Sweet Music Together written by Stefanie Mosca of TMCnet - check it out and learn about conversations between Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg and...

RockMelt Ties Social Networking to Browsing

The unfairness of it all – was all I could think when I had to access the Opinion section of the Wall Street Journal via the web after getting accustomed to finding it on an iPad app. Those poor people...

Is This What Social CRM 2.0 Looks Like?

Will robots talking to robots be the future of social networking? In the last few months one of the conversations about social CRM which has stuck in my mind was when someone told me that once they find their company...

Digg Layoffs Sad

I use Digg almost every day and find it to be a wonderful service that keeps me informed and helps me run my company more effectively. So I read with concern an article by Ed Silverstein on TMCnet which explains...

Salesforce.com Keynote at Social CRM EXPO/ITEXPO

Alex Dayon discusses cloud computing, social networking and other important trends at Social CRM Summit West 2010 collocated with ITEXPO in Los Angeles. Of note was the discussion about how Cloud 1 has become Cloud 2 - some differences -...

Video Channel for ITEXPO

Next week at ITEXPO I'll be using various video services to post from the show. One of my choices will be YouTube at this address - youtube.com/richtehrani. Most likely I'll blog or tweet whenever I post something. My Twitter account...

Metaswitch Forum 2010 Final Thoughts

I had a chance to eat breakfast this morning with Metaswitch CEO Kevin DeNuccio (pictured) and CTO Chris Mairs as well as some attendees and it was great to hear how much money is being spent by utilities to provide...

Facebook Phone

Why your next smartphone may be free Speculation abounds that Facebook is working on a phone and it seems more than logical to assume it will be based on Android and sold via carriers. In fact one would imagine AT&T...

Facebook Outage

Facebook is experiencing a major rolling outage and repeated attempts by me on multiple devices on multiple networks from multiple IP addresses has shown the systems are in major flux with the most usual result being a timeout error. Users...

Move into Your Bathroom and Change Your Name to Avoid Tech Pitfalls

Apparently there is something called a tech addiction - at least that is what I heard as I was browsing the web from my iPad last night in bed while watching TV. I don't consider myself a tech addict as...

Changing The Rules (Again) to Save Newspapers

Many people are very fed up with the idea of changing the rules to save favored institutions - TARP, the bailing out of AIG, Citibank, GM, Chrysler and underwater homeowners at the expense of the companies and people who played...

Mind Your Mobile Camera and There is no Facebook Dislike Button

You go New York Times, there are a few stories the newspaper has run recently which are worthy of note and worth potentially sending to people who don't devour tech news for a living. The first is from this past...

Google Wave: It's the UI Stupid

Why we should congratulate Google on its failures When Google Wave launched I read it was going to change email and it was what email would be if it was designed today. The concept seemed very solid - merge...

Google Far More Feared than Microsoft

"What happens if Google chooses to come into your space with your own content?" I grew up at a time when companies were afraid of Microsoft because whenever they came up with a good idea, Redmond would copy it and...

Magazine Ads Significantly Influence the Wealthy to Purchase

A TMCnet team member sent me an article from Forbes which is titled Ultra Rich Spending Less And Chasing Quality and gives fascinating insight on what makes these people tick and moreover how they spend and how to influence them....

New Twitter Coupons

The online coupon business is booming and the reason for its recent boost in success is 100% related to the economy. On the one hand customers have less money and need to shop for the best deals they can find....

Lebron James now on Twitter

Over the weekend I tweeted the fact that Lady Gaga has surpassed President Obama in Twitter followers and separately the matter was reported on by TMC's Juliana Kenny. But look out Presidents and Ladies alike, there is a new King...

Leverage Social Influencers with Pursway

Human beings are extremely social creatures and the term social networking which we often tie to the electronic world of blogs, Facebook and Twitter is really just an extension of what humans did before the age of computers and interconnected...