Shorts: Social Media Tools Rock the Software World

Remember the PC and the laptop?  The new-software buzz has certainly left those quiet old hives for the new social media gold fields where creating applications for Tweeter, Facebook and the growing iPhone empire are drawing venture capital and headlines … See today’s story by Yukari Iwatani Kane in the Wall Street Journal to catch up on smart phone apps, Seeking Fame in Apple’s Sea of Apps … Earlier in the week on Monday – same venue but different day – WSJ reporter Raymund Flandez did a useful roundup of the software bloom around Twitter, Tools for Tweets, that calls out ways that small businesses can now track, count and polish their tweetprints … If you remember snail mail (paper, ink, a sticky stamp?), hey, there’s digital innovation ever there, at least in Switzerland, where New York Times reporter Ciara O’Rourke reports, Swiss Postal Service Is Moving Some Mail Online.