The Twitterverse was decidedly more positive than negative on the Microsoft/Yahoo! search deal, with 14% citing the ongoing battle with Google, and 13% calling it some variant of a great match. Only 8% of tweets were neutral or negative on the announcement.

The largest single share of the Tweet volume (47%) was the ripple of the news itself as it proliferated through the network.

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Microsoft. The Borg, right?
Not anymore, at least according to Vox Twitter on a host of recent issues.
It started with Bing, which a slim majority of Twitter-ers between June 29 and July 13 – but a majority nonetheless – generally liked:
Next came Google’s Chrome OS announcement, which as discussed in a prior post, yielded an almost [...]

Boatloads of Twitter chatter on Google’s launch of the Chrome OS… Curious how it all breaks down?
We were too:

It’s probably fair to assume some pro-Google bias in the Twittersphere, but those expressing an opinion were more strongly in the ‘Unimpressed’ / ‘No Threat’ camp (at a combined 44% of the postings) than the ‘Excited’ / [...]

Today we announced a major strategic partnership with our long-time friends and allies over at Porter Novelli. This is a very big deal for Crimson Hexagon, and while the full text of the “Official Story” appears below, I thought I’d share some commentary on what this really means.
First off, let me say that while we [...]

We’re VERY proud to announce that Crimson Hexagon has been awarded the very first PricewaterhouseCoopers Promise Award by the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX)!
The award was conceived to spotlight emerging companies in the Boston technology community, as described here by MITX Executive Director Kiki Mills, for Xconomy’s Wade Roush:
“There are such exciting innovations that [...]

Comprehensive piece here, our segment begins at 2:30…
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Really feeling the love from the folks at CNN.com now… Today’s segment on what Twitter has to say about the current summer blockbusters…
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Sometimes finding the answer means going beyond the question.
Yesterday marked our debut on CNN.com, and we were understandably jacked by the whole experience. The topic happened to be twitter reactions to the American Idol finale – a long way from our United Nations trouble-spot identification days – but an interesting topic nonetheless.
What emerged from the [...]