Twitter have announced the acquisition of Smallthought Systems which specialise in producing website analytic’s data.
From the Twitter Blog:
Every day millions of people use Twitter to create, share and discover information, and as we grow, analytics becomes an increasingly crucial part of improving our service.
Up until about a year ago, we used an online database called Dabble DB to track and share information about our projects internally. While we’ve since moved that project management tool in-house, we maintain a relationship with Dabble DB’s creators, Smallthought Systems. When Smallthought launched Trendly, a tool that helps web sites …

That sigh of relief you hear is from parents, jobs seekers, and social networkers all over the planet:  Facebook‘s notoriously complex privacy policy has been revamped, for the simpler.  Now, instead of several steps to insure your privacy on the website, Facebook lets you click once, to make your content (wall postings, photographs, that sort of thing) available only to whom you want them to be available to.
Step one:  Go to the “account” menu.  Step two: privacy settings.  From there, customize your content in one click, or, if you’d prefer, customize …

The UK’s largest telecoms company, BT is reportedly to roll out a custom social network for its 100,000 staff.
Personnel Today reports that the company is to give each employee their own social profile on an internal network designed to make collaborating on projects easier wherever they are. The service, based on Microsoft technology, will allow staff to “be able to see, at a glance, what projects, and even what documents, other members of staff are working on.”
While social media is now reasonably well developed as a marketing tool, its usefulness for internal …