VentureBeat:
Twitter COO Dick Costolo is on-stage at TechCrunch’s Real-Time CrunchUp. I’m taking some notes as we go.[Costolo talks about why they changed the question from "What are you doing?" to "What's happening?"]Costolo: In user research, people would sign up for Twitter and they’d see this big white box that said “What are you do (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Part of the joy of following Bill Simmons on Twitter is the feeling that he doesn’t hold back—that, plus not only he can be snarky as all get out when the occasion demands, his tweets, snarky or not, are usually spot on. (He has one of the highest “repeat out loud” ratings in (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
The hot story in tech right now is "real-time," thanks to Twitter and Facebook, so you're going to hear a lot of noise over the next few years about "real-time" tech startups. Most of them will be useless and will flame out.Read the rest of this story »See Also:Salesforce Shows Off Chatter: Twitter For Corporations (CRM)Her (Read More)
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The Daily Beast has named publishing vet Stephen Colvin as the site’s president. Colvin CNET was president and CEO of lad mag purveyor Dennis Publishing for 11 years, will oversee all aspects of the business, the company announced. He will report directly to Tina Brown, the ye (Read More)
Guardian Unlimited: Technology:
'I would not say that I lost faith in Twitter, I would say that I lost faith in my ability to negotiate it,' says Stephen FryStephen Fry, technophile and a "twillionaire" having amassed more than a million followers on Twitter, yesterday explained what almost led him to commit "twitticide" last month and consider leaving th (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Offer-based ads seemed to be the secret to monetizing social games—and social network users, in general—that standard banner ads couldn’t provide. But amid ongoing accusations that the ads actually “scammed” users into paying for things they didn’t want and giving up their per (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Brizzly, an application for managing messages in Twitter and Facebook, expanded its beta test today — now you don’t need an invite code, so anyone can use it.The application was created by San Francisco-based Thing Labs, and includes features like expanding links and photos, the ability to “mute” people who you want to stop (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Film:
Social networking sends $15,000 shocker inspired by Fawlty Towers into box-office hall of fameThere is nothing remotely scary about the beige library in the Soho Hotel. It's calm, quiet, bland. Yet towards the end of a low-key interview with Oren Peli, who's in London for less than 24 hours to promote his smash-hit low-budg (Read More)
GigaOM:
Layoffs are cropping up all over the tech industry, with workers at companies ranging from AOL to Adobe to Microsoft getting pink slips. But while most people know to turn to the big online job boards and social networks ranging from LinkedIn to Facebook to help land a new gig, there are a lot of off-the-beaten-track online (Read More)
The Guardian:
BBC News website to feature longer headlines on story pages, making them easier to find on search enginesFrom today, the headlines of the BBC News website will become longer to make its stories easier to find on search engines. "We estimate that about 29% of BBC News website UK traffic comes from search engines.", says Stev (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Like the prior generation, the new Pogoplug lets you share any USB drive over the Internet. It'll run for a slightly higher $129, still have no service fees, but it will take up to four USB drives at a time. Aside from automatically syncing content with a Mac or PC, you can share and watch movies, listen to music, or view p (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Facebook has threatened legal action against a service that sells friends on the social networking site.
It said it would take the action against marketing firm USocial unless it stopped violating Facebook's rights.
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MSNBC:
Contrary to those who blame the Internet for, well, everything — in this case, our willingness to believe pretty much anything — don’t blame it for our love for hoaxes.
Twitter - Social network - Online Communities - Relationships - Social network service. (Read More)
BBC:
Vietnamese officials deny they are blocking access to social networking website Facebook for the site's million users, blaming a technical fault. (Read More)