Twitter expected to unveil advertising platform today
Posted by Paul in Web 2.0, business, social media on March 15, 2010
At SXSW, the currently undergoing conference and event in Texas, Twitter is expected to unveil its much anticipated advertising platform today, which is set to mimic Google’s Adwords in many ways.
Twitter has announced a lot of new features at SXSW, including a Geo-location feature. We’ll keep you updated as soon as we know more.
Betaworks, the investment company which invests iWeb projects based around realtime Web, has announced that they’ve raised another $20 million from RRE Ventures and Intel Capital, DFJ Growth, AOL Ventures, The New York Times, Softbank Japan and Softbank NY — quite a round of important VCs. 
The Wall Street Journal expects Facebook revenues to break the $1 billion barrier this year, and the business news outfit estimates revenues of $1.2 billion to a stunning $2 billion.
Yahoo’s popular Contacts service has added Facebook connect as a standard feature now, and Facebook connect will almost take over the whole process now, with easy import of friends and their details from Facebook.
WordPress has just given a great, new feature to the over 10 million blogs it hosts on WordPress.com. The new feature, called PuSH, short for Pubsubhubbub, is a protocol to speed up RSS feeds and new posts.