Twitter has unveiled, along with its new redesigned home page, Twitter 101, a series of Web pages and a downloadable slide show that explain how businesses can use it. There are also some case studies like JetBlue and Dell, among many others.

Twitter 101 says that its service is for building relationships and listening to and responding and float ideas in real time.

Twitter will likely introduce a bundle of paid services later this year for businesses. These tools will alow companies to verify their accounts and analyze traffic to their Twitter profiles.

For many supersmall businesses with no ad budget the free microblogging service has become their sole means of marketing. It is easier to set up and update a Twitter account than to maintain a Web page. In addition, some of them use TweetDeck, a web application that helps people to manage their Twitter messages.


Delve Networks Partners with Akamai… Live Many Other Competitor

Video management platform Delve Networks announced this week a non-exclusive partnership with Akamai in which the two companies will combine forces to provide turn-key-high-quality video services to video publishers. Problem is the many other companies have similar agreements with Akamai CDN leading company.

Among them there are KickApps, VMIX, Multicast, Onstream Media, Vbrick and KIT Digital. Akamai explains: “We have value-added relationships with a lot of these companies”.

Funniest thing is that Akamai offers also its own Stream OS video platform from its Nine Systems acquisition.


Justin.tv Aims For Maximum Market Adoption of its Live Platform

Justin.tv has released a free API for live video. Developers can customize Justin.tv’s video player and build applications on top of its platform.

Stickam and Ustream are offering their API as a paid white-label service. Another competitor, Livestream is about to release it.

Apps already built on the Justin.tv platform include Camtweet.com, which is an easy integration of live video and Twitter.