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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.

Real-time collaboration for Microsoft Office is the focus of OneDrum, a tech startup based in the United Kingdom which launched a closed beta of its

As the exchange of information on the Web increasingly approaches the now, innovators at Topsy Labs Inc have launched a real-time search engine built off of Twitter's API.

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...

This week Microsoft Office 2010 was released as a technical preview to testers. New collaboration features will be the highlight of Office 2010 applications. Unified and real-time communication products are proliferating throughout the market and Microsoft is hoping to keep pace, and its strong grip on the business world.

As a part of our festive and holiday season mobile advertising series, we've covered the top niche brand segments such as FMCG, Electronics and Lifestyle & Travel. To add to this list, we're excited to take on the Automobile sector this time. For consumers, the festive or holiday season is the ideal time to get a new ride.

Talk about fast, you don't even need to log in to use this real-time document collaboration tool. ShowDocument is a flash-based app and super-simple to get going, simply browse for a document file, click upload, and you have a live workspace to edit your document. Quickly invite others to your workspace by...

[Video] Google conducted a small survey in Times Square not too long ago simply asking people, "What is a browser?" The result was that less than 8% of those interviewed knew the answer. Most people responded with search engines such as Google & Yahoo but a few were on point naming Microsoft Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. Watch the video...

Social media marketing mishaps - say that five times fast. Today companies cannot afford to ignore the momentum of the social media revolution; still considered to be in an early stage of development and yet has had a profound impact on society and business at a global level. When looking towards the marketing possibilities of social networks...

I can't say that I have much time for television these days but the new Volkswagen CC commercial did catch my eye tonight. What caught my eye even more than

Is the fourth time a charm for Oracle? Beehive is their latest attempt to capture a piece of the business collaboration software market which has been

The top story from the Googleplex this week is the announcement confirming Google Wave will be available to 100,000 testers this fall. The latest project lead by Google Maps developers Lars and Jens Rasmussen, Google Wave is an open source collaboration and communications platform that fuses conversations and documents in real-time.

A recent independent study conducted by Nucleus Research reports approximately 1.5% of enterprise productivity is lost due to employees accessing Facebook in the workplace. The study shows that 77% of company employees have a Facebook account and nearly half of all workers access Facebook on company time.

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, technologists and more are tweeting out knowledge, ideas and news every second and if you blink you might miss it!

Socialcast this Wednesday released an official developer API. After weeks of beta testing with select clients the API is now available for all Socialcast members. Socialcast is a real-time collaboration platform that allows companies to communicate and collaborate via activity streams where coworkers share text, files, images and links.

Collaber on Web comes to market today as an extension of the Collaber Desktop real-time collaboration software suite. Collaber allows teams to share files, folders, tasks, events and track project activities through a unified workspace.

For the first time we see a major brand promoting a Twitter based service on network television commercials. Corporate websites taking a backseat to social media is a trending topic this year. Not too long ago we talked about Volkswagen promoting their Facebook fan page on their commercials.

In a business world where change is constant, knowledge becomes an essential asset for any organization. Survival and growth require the development of solutions that will optimize collaboration and knowledge management.\n\nFocussing on this topic we recently produced our first whitepaper. It analyses the benefits associated with the introduction of Enterprise 2.0 solutions, and positions the collaborative management of knowledge as a stable and lasting solution, especially in these times of economic tumult.