Microsoft Gives Preview of the Next Live Messenger
By Stuart J. Johnston - Public IM Article Published April 28, 2010
Microsoft's CEO shows off some of the new features coming in the next release of Windows Live Messenger, but leaves many questions unanswered such as when can users get their hands on it?

Twitter's Brain Trust Speaks on Future Plans
By David Needle - Public IM Article Published April 16, 2010
Twitter on Android? Yes. Twitter in China? No. The executive team at Twitter answered a range of questions from developers at the company's first Chirp conference.

Twitter Plans to Focus on Growth, Leave Business to Business
By David Needle - Public IM Article Published April 15, 2010
If you're interested in the business case for Twitter, the company's CEO says you'll need to look to third party developers. Twitter itself prefers to focus on growing its user base and focusing on mobile users.

Twitter Finds a Business Plan
By Kenneth Corbin - Public IM Article Published April 13, 2010
Borrowing a page from Google, Twitter will sell space at the top of search results so businesses can promote tweets relevant to what the user's looking for.

Facebook Chat Goes XMPP, Opens to Third Party Clients
By InstantMessagingPlanet.com Staff - Public IM Article Published February 10, 2010
With a move to the Jabber/XMPP protocol, Facebook's chat service becomes more easily accessible to third-party Jabber clients and enables deeper AIM/Facebook integration.

Microsoft Live Messenger Hits 300 Million Users
By Stuart J. Johnston - Public IM Article Published February 10, 2010
Worldwide use continues to grow for the software giant's venerable instant messaging platform. So what's the problem?

Blogging Gives Way to Newer Social Sites
By Kenneth Corbin - Public IM Article Published February 3, 2010
New research from Pew finds that younger Internet users aren't interested in long-format blogs now that they can blast out status updates and micro-blogs on other social sites.

A Small Business Guide to Online Collaboration
By Gerry Blackwell - Public IM Article Published December 29, 2009
If you're using instant messaging to hold your small business together, you might be interested in this overview of online collaboration tools that use or complement your existing IM routine.

Twitter Turns a Profit?
By David Needle - Public IM Article Published December 22, 2009
$25 million in search partnerships may well be enough to make Twitter profitable.

TwitVid Provides Real-Time Twitter Video Search
By David Needle - Public IM Article Published December 15, 2009
Search feature shows the latest videos added to Twitter as well as analytics.

MSN China Launches Twitter-like Service
Published December 2, 2009
They don't consider it a competitor to Twitter, so what does Microsoft have in mind with this new service?

Yahoo Adds Twitter to News Results
By David Needle - Public IM Article Published November 19, 2009
Breaking news stories now highlight relevant top Twitter feeds.

Twitter and LinkedIn Link Up
By Kenneth Corbin - Public IM Article Published November 10, 2009
Social sites sync up to create two-way flow of communication.

Twitter Comes to Roost at Bing
By David Needle - Public IM Article Published October 21, 2009
Bing adds real-time Twitter results to its arsenal; says Facebook updates to comes.

Twitter Plateaus, Facebook Surges
By Kenneth Corbin - Public IM Article Published October 14, 2009
Latest comScore data suggests Twitter's unique visitor count has hit the skids, but its popular API could be contributing to that.

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