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Taweet (beta) is a unique Twitter application that adds a whole new dimension to your Twitter experience: the future. The casual format of Taweet allows users to answer one simple question: “What are you doing in the future?” …and search the future to see what others are doing.

You create posts on Taweet in the same way you would add items to a calendar or timeline. You describe a future event and add the date and time it will occur. Your post is then added to your “Future Tweets” and is visible on your Taweet profile. You can view the profile of any Twitter user on Taweet.

When a future tweet is created it also posts to Twitter, with the date included, to let your followers know you have a new event coming up. At the date and time each of your posts is scheduled they also appear on your Twitter profile. The short-URL at the end of each Twitter post links to your topic page on Taweet where others can add comments. When a comment is made it posts to the Twitter account of the commenter, again linking back to the original topic.

You can use the “Post Now” feature to override scheduling. Tweets sent with the “Post Now” feature also include a short-URL to allow all of your Twitter posts to have threaded comments.

All future tweets are visible on the Taweet search page. Taweet’s future search is novel solution for promoting future events or searching the future to see what others are doing.

Rumors earlier this week of Twitter negotiating a new round of funding at a valuation of $1 billion are confirmed today by co-founder Evan Williams on the Twitter Blog. TechCrunch reports this latest round of funding has closed with Twitter receiving $100 million.

Twitter’s previous round of funding raised $35 million in February of 2009 at a valuation of $250 million. The new figure of $1 billion quadruples Twitter’s valuation in just 7 months.

Keeping in the spirit that you have to spend money to make money, Twitter has yet to produce a viable revenue stream. We anticipate that this $100 million injection is contingent on Twitter rolling out a paid advertising platform in the very near future. It’s worth noting that Facebook received $716 million in funding before finally announcing, less than two weeks ago, the company is now cash flow positive.

Evan William thanks Insight Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, Institutional Venture Partners, Spark Capital, Benchmark Capital, and Morgan Stanley as contributing investment firms. Twitter to date has received $155 million in venture funding.

Sources: Twitter Blog, TechCrunch

Twitter rolls out a stylish new homepage this week and is finally promoting real-time search front and center. Up until now, when talking with friends about the true power of Twitter lying in it’s real-time search capabilities, some seemed to not fully grasp the concept. Hopefully the new design will help more users understand how it works.

“See what people are saying about…” are the instructions above the new search box, and appropriately so. Twitter allows you to search what users are tweeting about up to the second.

A search for “social media” displays the latest post from @CrystalGibson, “Social media may well be the pain reliever we have all needed-the medicine that makes advertising relevant and welcome in our lives.”

The new Twitter tagline reads, “Share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world.”

Below the search bar we find popular topics displayed by the minute, day and week.

Viewing search.twitter.com still displays the old design but you can anticipate they will be updating that soon too.

Twitter users frequently share their thoughts in 140 characters or less, and sometimes do not think twice before posting. No worries though, the handy delete button is always available to remove remorseful tweets. Up until now most users were under the impression that deleted posts were swallowed by the black hole of cyberspace, never to be seen again. Tweleted has arrived to let us know this is simply not the case. Tweleted is an application that allows you to search by Twitter username to see what posts have been recently deleted.
 
The concept behind Tweleted is actually pretty simple due to what can be considered a loophole in the software design of Twitter. When you click delete that post is removed from your profile but still remains available via Twitter search. Tweleted simply compares Twitter search results for your username to the information displayed on your profile and returns only the tweets that do not match up.
 
Depending on your mood Tweleted offers Good and Evil modes. The default Good mode allows you to easily recover accidentally deleted posts. Evil mode promotes itself as an “instant drama generator” where you can search for embarrassing deleted tweets for fun and profit. John Mayer recently posted that “Wearing corduroy pants means having a nail file on you all the time,” however he apparently changed his mind shortly after.
 
The loophole has raised privacy concerns and sources say Twitter is working to correct this issue. For now setting your profile to private is a temporary fix if you have recently tweeted and deleted some dirty laundry.

Happy Follow Friday! Welcome to another edition of Twitter Ten on 10. If you understand what real-time is all about then you are probably already on Twitter, if not we need to have a chat. Top executives, marketers, entrepreneurs and technologists are tweeting out knowledge, ideas and news every second. If you blink you might miss it! Well, not really, you can actually search Twitter to see what is being said on pretty much any topic. So if you weren’t on Twitter at the beginning of this paragraph you better be now! Here are some influential tweeters to start following…

@kevinrose
Kevin Rose, entrepreneur, rock climber and founder of Digg

@briansolis
Brian Solis, principal of FutureWorks

@chrisbrogan
Chris Brogan, president of New Marketing Labs

@dmscott
David Meerman Scott, marketing speaker and author of The New Rules of Marketing and PR

@ginatrapani
Gina Trapani, book author, programmer, and founding editor of Lifehacker

@ijustine
Justine Ezarik, blogger, geek, internet video producer

@leeodden
Lee Odden, CEO at TopRank Online Marketing

@prsarahevans
Sarah Evans, social media freak and director of communications at Elgin Community College

@unmarketing
Scott Stratten, president of Un-Marketing.com and Jedi of viral marketing

@missrogue
Tara Hunt, author of The Whuffie Factor and owner of Citizen Space

@collabocom
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If you haven’t been living under a rock recently you are well aware of Microsoft’s latest foray into the search market with Bing. The latest buzz word in Web search is “real-time” lead by the constant flow of 140 character posts from the Twitter platform. Many companies have been attempting to harness this information in the form of real-time search engines. Some recent contenders include Topsy, OneRiot, CrowdEye, and now Bing.

Bing’s real-time search experiment as of right now is only indexing results for popular tweeters. It’s still unclear on how they plan on delivering these results as my own tests have been varied. For example if I search for “Al Gore” on Bing I do not see anything related to Twitter. If I search “Al Gore Twitter” I see some results at the bottom of the page. However if I search “@algore” the Twitter results are right at the top.

I tried a second test with “TechCrunch” and this time I do see tweets at the bottom of the page. “TechCrunch Twitter” delivers the results at the top of the page, as does “@techcrunch“.

Search heavyweight Google as of yet has not launched any products to index Twitter content (outside of user pages), but rumors of a Google microblogging search engine have been surfacing.

Potentially bad news for smaller image sharing apps such as Twitpic and Posterous as Flickr (finally) adds a new feature which allows users to tweet their photos. Also this week Twitter modifies their user interface to give us more control of who we follow and who follows us.

To share photos from your Flickr account directly to Twitter you must first authorize the two services to communicate with each other through your account; standard for many Twitter applications. Now you can easily send shortened http://flic.kr URLs from the “Blog This” button on your photo pages or mobile device. Enable “Upload by Email” in your Flickr settings before you attempt mobile photo sharing.
 
Twitter tweaks it’s user interface slightly this week by enhancing features on the Following and Followers pages. Twitter now gives us two new ways to view our tweeps. A compact view gives us a clean overview of users listed on our follow pages, while the expanded view shows us a user’s last tweet along with their location. A new drop-down menu delivers quick access to @ mentions, direct messages, unfollow and block.

At the Enterprise 2.0 Conference today in Boston, collaborative social software provider Socialtext announces Socialtext Free 50 to entice companies on the fence to integrate enterprise social networking into their organizations. This new freemium model offers online collaboration tools such as micro-blogging, social networking, personalized home pages, and a wiki workspace.
 
“Many of our customers take a practical approach of workgroup use, before widespread transformative deployments,” said Eugene Lee, CEO of Socialtext. “These new offerings enable more businesses to discover a new way of working without barriers and decide when to engage with us to grow revenue, strengthen customer relationships and adapt to change. Socialtext continues to exercise its Enterprise 2.0 leadership with a ‘freemium’ SaaS business model, while expanding the power of its social software platform.”
 
Features reserved for premium accounts that you won’t see in Socialtext Free 50 include multiple wiki workspaces, technical support, the ability to deploy Socialtext behind company firewalls, access to the SocialCalc collaborative spreadsheet, and obviously the ability to allow more than 50 users to access your company’s Socialtext account.

The Enterprise 2.0 Conference began today in Boston. Over 20 companies were chosen to announce their latest developments for business collaboration and enterprise social networking. Following up with Part 1 of this article, here is what will be introduced at the conference over the next few days…
 
nGenera Corporation unveils nGen Collaboration to enable companies to increase efficiency and productivity through an innovative collaboration platform. nGenera is also the creator of Collaborative Enterprise Management (CEM).
 
Open Text Social Media supports compliance and security while giving companies the social productivity tools that employees desire, enhanced by mobile access through devices such as the iPhone and Blackberry.
 
PIEmatrix launches project management “made for humans” through integrated “pie” and “matrix” models designed around the way people think. Create teams, manage, and execute projects in real-time.
 
RollStream enterprise community management and collaboration software announces a new Onboarding solution for accelerating growth within supplier and customer oriented communities.
 
SimpleFeed content syndication publishing and analytics platform will announce Twitter integration to allow users to seamlessly publish content to their Twitter accounts.
 
Socialtext announces a distributed social spreadsheet known as Socialcalc, updates to the Signals micro-blogging application including a full page Web UI, and will introduce a new mainstream offering this week at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference.
 
Sun Microsystems unveils SLX Enterprise, a video community platform for business. SLX enhances communication and collaboration between employees, customers, and partners through social media.
 
ThoughtFarmer releases the latest version of it’s turnkey social intranet software. New features in ThoughtFarmer 3.5 include Discussion Capture for monitoring email threads, an improved People Directory, tree-view navigation, and enhanced performance.
 
Tomoye Community Software 3.0 is a social community platform which can be deployed on top of Microsoft SharePoint or as a standalone system.
 
Twinsoft introduces Convertigo Enterprise Mashup Server 4.5 to capture Web and legacy data and processes to create Web 2.0 enterprise mashups.
 
Yakabox 3.1 knowledge sharing software from Yakabod combines collaboration, social networking, content management and search with security features that make it the choice of the U.S. intelligence community.

The Enterprise 2.0 Conference will begin on Monday in Boston and more than 20 companies have been selected to showcase their new enterprise collaboration and business social media offerings. Here is what we can expect to see this week…
 
Alcatel-Lucent is integrating real-time communications and Web 2.0 technologies with OmniTouch My Instant Communicator.
 
ArtusLabs mixes collaboration and social networking with refined scientific data mining to drive research with Ensemble for Life Science 4.5.
 
blueKiwi combines social recommendations, micro-blogging, idea generation and widgets into a new business platform with bK2009 Social Board.
 
Bluenog will showcase an open source Enterprise 2.0 development platform, or Integrated Collaborative Environment: ICE 4.5.
 
Box.net has created a partnership with a global provider to offer users anytime-anywhere document shipping.
 
Brainpark productivity and collaboration software will announce a new Task Awareness system that learns from employee work history to provide recommendations on contacts and resources.
 
Central Desktop has developed a SaaS mico-blogging platform for business.
 
CMS Watch has updated it’s Enterprise Social Software & Collaboration research and will release the new results.
 
Joyent will announce two new products at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. Develop, deploy and scale web applications with the Joyent Smart Platform. My.Joyent allows companies to monitor and control their Cloud Infrastructure within the Joyent Cloud via a new web interface.
 
Leverage Software will debut major updates to it’s business social networking platform including new conversation tools and enhanced privacy.
 
NewsGator’s Social Sites 3.0 beta, which is built on top of Microsoft SharePoint, will offer new features including self-assembling wikis called Socialpedias and the ability to rate Topic Experts.