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ModernTube: Dexter Fowler teaches Todd Helton about Twitter

March 12, 2010

Big League Stew - MLB - Yahoo! Sports / 'Duk

The Colorado Rockies are always among the teams that release a great annual crop of commercials and they've just released the newest batch for the 2010 season.

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Dan Riehl: There needs to be outrage

March 13, 2010

sisu / Sissy Willis

Dan Riehl and Melissa Clouthier caught on Fox News camera during CPAC 2010 last month. "The youth are first and foremost among us in throwing off authority," writes Riehl.

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Did You Order Your iPad Today?

March 13, 2010

Chris Pirillo / Chris

Did You Order Your iPad Today? is a post from Chris PirilloThe iPad officially became available for pre-order earlier today.

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'LOL Is This You?' Twitter Getting Serious About Spam Issue

March 14, 2010

Advertising Age - Complete Feed / mlearmonth@adage.com(Michael Learmonth)

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- In the past year, Twitter grew up, became mainstream and finally admitted it had a problem: a spam problem.

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Creating Online Communities that Work — .gov is the New .com –

March 15, 2010

networks info space / Valentin

Image via Wikipedia “…open source web application that aggregates and organizes replies to status updates on Twitter.

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Twitter Now Supports Location-Based Tweets

March 15, 2010

Tech Pedia / Krithi

The microblogging site last week turned on its new geolocation feature, which allows you to tell the Twitterverse where you are when you tweet.

altMD Launches Health & Wellness Twitter Application WellnessTweets.com

March 15, 2010

PRWeb Sports Golf

New search engine from altMD aggregates millions of health and wellness tweets to connect consumers with the latest information and resources on over 150 natural health and alternative medicine ...

How the Crowd is Changing the News (SXSW)

March 15, 2010

WebProNews Feed / Chris Crum

Here at SXSW, we attended the session "CrowdControl: Changing the Face of Media or Hype?" At the end, one of the speakers asked the crowd, which they thought it was.

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Something Is Technically Wrong With Twitter.com

March 14, 2010

TechCrunch / Robin Wauters

OMGTwitterisdownagain. Or extremely flaky, at least.

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One Analysis of the Google Buzz Mess

March 14, 2010

New York Times / By JENNA WORTHAM

The backlash to Google's social networking feature sheds light on the challenges all technology companies must face when it comes to thinking about privacy, says one researcher.

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Why Social Media Is Overhyped as an Engine of Growth

March 13, 2010

DailyFinance / Charles Hugh Smith

Tweet this: Social media is having a major effect on communication and media globally, but its financial impact is modest.

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Facebook Helps Social Start-Ups Gain Users

March 13, 2010

New York Times / By JENNA WORTHAM

Facebook Connect can help nascent Web services recruit a healthy crowd of users in a hurry, and help the users find their friends on those sites.

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Update: In Time For SXSW, Twitter Officially Turns On Geolocation

March 12, 2010

TechCrunch / Leena Rao

A few days ago, we spotted Twitter's initial roll out of a geolocation feature on its Website. It appeared that Twitter was testing the feature because it quickly turned it off.

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Energy News LIVE On Twitter: Updates In Real-Time

March 14, 2010

The Huffington Post | Full News Feed / The Huffington Post News Editors

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Twitter Launches A Site So You Can Stalk Twitter Employees AT SXSW

March 14, 2010

TechCrunch / MG Siegler

While a lot of the smaller startups like Foursquare and Gowalla are getting much of the buzz at SXSW, Twitter isn't sitting idly on the location sidelines.

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[BREAKING] JAPAN MAINSTREAM "NIKKEI" NEWS CALLS OBAMA CANCELLING ASIA TRIP (VIA TWITTER) "INSULTING"

March 13, 2010

Forum: News/Activism / Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Tokyo (Original in Japanese)

The Japanese daily equivalent to the American "Wall Street Journal", the "Nihon Keizai Shimbun" (or "Nikkei" for short) has run a Japanaese language story just now ...

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Chad Ocho Cinco Declares War Against ESPN

March 13, 2010

The Big Lead / TheBigLead

Chad Ocho Cinco, presumably perturbed by something that was said about him this week by ESPN talking heads Erik Kuselias, John Clayton and Colin Cowherd, fought back against all of them via twitter.

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South Asian Mobile Social Network Mig33 Sending Twice As Many Messages A Day As Twitter

March 12, 2010

TechCrunch / Leena Rao

Mobile social networks have tremendous potential to flourish in developing countries where mobile phone usage trumps internet connectivity.

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Andy Borowitz: THIS WEEKEND: Americans to Lose One Hour to Daylight Savings and the Rest to Facebook, Twitter

March 12, 2010

The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed / Andy Borowitz

MINNEAPOLIS (The Borowitz Report) - For the first time since the time-shift was instituted, Americans will lose one hour to Daylight Savings and the rest...

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Hands On With Twitter's Tweet With Your Location

March 12, 2010

AppScout / Chloe Albanesius

Twitter this week provided more details on its location-based tweets, an opt-in feature for U.S. users that started showing up on certain accounts earlier this week.

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Heidi Gets A Film Role!

March 12, 2010

Celebrity gossip juicy celebrity rumors Hollywood gossip blog from Perez Hilton / Perez Hilton

Sorta… Heidi Montag will make a cameo appearance in the upcoming Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston movie Just Go With It aka Pretend Wife.

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Teens: Don’t Expose Your Location on Twitter!

March 12, 2010

New Tech News Blog Network ~ Lockergnome / Lamarr Wilson

On Wednesday, Twitter enabled location based tweets.  This allows you to broadcast your location to Twitter, in some cases zeroing in on your neighborhood and house!What was Twitter thinking?

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DreamHost offers Status.net as a 1-click install. Great step towards distributed micromessaging

March 12, 2010

A View from the Isle / Tris Hussey

I’m a pretty heavy Twitter user but I have long argued that we need the equivalent of SMTP/POP for micromessaging as we have for email.

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How Does Trending On Twitter Work...Really

March 12, 2010

uninflected images juxtaposed / wcdixon (noreply@blogger.com)

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Gowalla Investor Chris Sacca Disputes Foursquare Success: Foursquare Only Looks Hot On Twitter Because It's Filled With Spam

March 15, 2010

Silicon Alley Insider / Jay Yarow

Foursquare has a spam problem on Twitter, and its system lacks any "true accountability" according to Gowalla investor Chris Sacca, who emailed us this weekend after disputing the conclusion of a ...

Augmented Reality – will I ever become the bionic woman?

March 15, 2010

Nokia Conversations / Rhiain

GLOBAL – There was a time when reality was enough.

The Bieb is taking over Twitter

March 15, 2010

Oh No They Didn't!

Canadian teen heartthrob Justin Bieber may not be the king of Twitter but he's staking a claim for the title.Last week, the 16-year-old pop singer from Stratford, Ont., was the No.

Daily Twitter Links

March 15, 2010

Peter Black's Freedom to Differ / pete.black@gmail.com (Peter Black)

These are some of the things I've been tweeting about today:bbc news has a cool visualisation of the top 100 sites on the internet http://j.

Love Glenn Beck as you would love yourself

March 15, 2010

Urban Onramps / rc

I haven’t seen the video of Glenn Beck’s call to “run away” from churches that teach social justice.

Keane - Night Train + "Stop For A Minute" single ft K'Naan

March 15, 2010

Band Weblogs / bandweblogs

Following the worldwide success of their first three albums, the members of Keane announce the release date of Night Train to be released on Cherrytree/Interscope Records in the US on May 11, 2010.

Who Tweeted?: Guess the Celebrity Twitter Updates (PHOTOS …

March 15, 2010

PopGossips.com / admin

entertainment. GossipCelebrityNews.com : Celebrity Gossip , News , Pictures · Home · About Us; blank. Profile ... Who Tweeted?: Guess the Celebrity Twitter Updates (PHOTOS). entertainment.

Food for thought: driving demand and innovation through Twitter

March 15, 2010

Econsultancy blog / James Gurd

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