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Twitter has a huge green community. There are green media, green companies, and green charities all active on the microblogging service, as well as a whole bunch of individual environmentalists and green bloggers. The #EcoMonday hashtag — the environmental equivalent of #FollowFriday, in which Twitter users suggest “green” tweeters to follow and share green news [...]

What can you use the application for? Zocdoc.com is an online service which allows patients to book doctor and dentist appointments. Doctors and dentists can be searched by specialty, location and type of insurance that they accept. Patients can read reviews of doctors and dentists written by other patients. The service allows patients to search [...]

A variety of multiclient instant-messaging services have cropped up that allow users to communicate with each other over the Web. Some can be downloaded onto your desktop, while others can be accessed on the Internet. In either case, they’re worth trying out, if you want to enjoy a fine experience communicating with your friends. Multiclient [...]

By Chris Bucholtz I’ve written about this in the past, but it bears repeating: All the CRM technology, process refinement, customer intelligence and sales efficiency in the world is worthless unless your company is truly customer-focused, and never more so than when a customer has a service issue. One bad service experience can turn all [...]

Google might be making it easier to adopt Google Voice by letting users bring an existing number. Getting started with Google Voice could be easier if you could bring an existing phone number. (Credit: Google) Techcrunch reports that Google plans to bring the concept of number portability to its Google Voice product, allowing you to [...]