Twitter was founded in March 2006 by Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Biz Stone. In 2006 Williams and Biz Stone co-founded Obvious Corp along with other former Odeo employees. Twitter was created as a separate company in April 2007 by Obvious Corp. Jack Dorsey was chief executive officer of Twitter until October 2008 when Williams became CEO and Dorsey shifted to the position of chairman of the board.

Since its creation in 2006, Twitter has become very popular worldwide. Twitter is the fastest growing free micro-blogging software that allows you to keep in touch with people through quick, frequent answers to one question: What are you doing? That one little question has launched a media revolution.

“Tweet” is the term for the 140 maximum character messages posted on Twitter. For tweeting to be effective, it must be done systematically, with posts being made daily. For the average business owner or marketing executive, this can be very impractical because of the time required. Fortunately, technology provides ways to get things done quicker.

One such technology is a tool called BigTweet. BigTweet is a plugin for your Web browser that lets you post a tweet to Twitter by just clicking the BigTweet button, located on your browser’s link menu. Highlighting a passage on a web page and clicking the button creates a tweet from the text you highlighted, in addition to the title of the page and a short URL. If you do not highlight any words on the page, then the … Continue Reading ...

Dhows, with their slanting triangular lateen sails, evoke images of exotic ports like Muscat and Zanzibar, of merchants being driven across the Indian Ocean by monsoon winds, of pearl divers, fishermen and smugglers. Although still used for trading along the coasts of the Gulf, Oman and the horn of Africa, dhows are a relaxing way for travelers to enjoy a day on the water and none more so than plying the sheltered khors, or finger-like inlets, of Oman’s Musandam peninsula.

Although everyone’s experience is different, there are at least three major highlights among the host of pleasures during the day.

1. The physical landscape of Khor Ash-Sham
2. The pods of dolphins
3. Snorkeling and swimming in the crystal waters

The seventeen-kilometer-long inlet of Khor Ash-Sham is a mysterious place of silent grandeur. Long claws of rocks reach out into the glittering waters and formations appear like petrified monsters from the deep, or from some prehistoric world, while mauve, ochre and rust-colored limestone heights soar 900-1200 meters into the air. When a heat or dust haze, brought by southerly winds from the Empty Quarter, hangs over the area, the landscape resembles something out of the Lord of the Rings, and as the sun sinks low in the afternoon sky, there is almost a sinister feel about the darkening and shadowy heights. Five tiny isolated stone fishing and herding villages scattered along the khor, sitting precariously at the foot of slopes that suffer periodic rock falls, are the only signs of human habitation in … Continue Reading ...