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)
ReadWriteWeb:
In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup - our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week - we report on President Obama's (non)-use of Twitter, take a look at the past decade in the media industry, review the latest statistics about blogging, question if Oxford Dictionary should've chosen "unfriend" as its word of the (Read More)
Engadget:
"We have captured it! First circulating beam of 2009!" And with that tweet, researchers at CERN announced that they did in fact activate the Large Hadron Collider, after quite a long delay and despite warnings of a looming, nefarious Higgs boson. Whether or not we will have had total destruction as an unfortunate result of (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)
Gawker:
Neel Shah got his scandal-phone returned; Kevin Marks got retweeted by ghosts and Al Yankovic was surrounded by nobodies. The Twitterati were haunted, in a good way. Neel Shah, Page Six gossip and former Gawker and Radar-ite, was glad his phone didn't end up with the likes of his present or past employers. (He should be.) T (Read More)
Valleywag:
Neel Shah got his scandal-phone returned; Kevin Marks got retweeted by ghosts and Al Yankovic was surrounded by nobodies. The Twitterati were haunted, in a good way.Neel Shah, Page Six gossip and former Gawker and Radar-ite, was glad his phone didn't end up with the likes of his present or past employers. (He should be.)Tec (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Once the service for those serious enough to pay for the privilege to post, TypePad recently released a free "Micro" service. The company made the decision to offer a free product realizing the demand for a platform more formal than Twitter and less formal than Wordpress or Typepad's original product. ReadWriteWeb compared (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Follow the latest in Chicago LIVE through our curated Twitter lists: local news, local sports, and local people via tweets.
Do you know a tweeter who's perfect for one of these lists? Email us at twitterlists@huffingtonpost.com!
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Huffington Post:
Follow the latest in Denver LIVE through our curated Twitter lists: local news, local sports, and local people via tweets.
Do you know a tweeter who's perfect for one of these lists? Email us at twitterlists@huffingtonpost.com!
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Huffington Post:
Never one to shy away from hyperbole, Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) insisted on Friday that the Department of Justice's decision to try terrorist suspects in civilian court will result in a growth in domestic terrorism and the increased likelihood of American deaths.Speaking on a conference call with reporters, the Iowa Republic (Read More)
VentureBeat:
There are tons of karaoke applications for the iPhone, but a startup called Khu.sh is introducing a twist on the concept, “reverse karaoke,” to the App Store.There have been other reverse karaoke products, most notably Microsoft Songsmith, a Windows application that lets you record your singing, then automatically generates (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Last year, Peter Norback was looking for a way to do a service for his community. "Just before the election, Barack Obama was talking about community service. I had thought about that for years," said the 67-year-old resident of Tucson, Ariz. "But I couldn't get involved with those meetings that didn't do anything, it was j (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) argued last Sunday that Republicans deserve at least six additional weeks to consider health care reform before letting the bill come to a vote. By Friday, his top lieutenant said the entire GOP had already made up its mind on the legislation. Appearing on Fox News Friday mornin (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Blake Lively's next big screen role is a runaway drug-addled S&M video star who seeks refuge in the arms of a much older man in 'The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.' The 'Gossip Girl' star tells Parade magazine just what it was like lying naked on top of 75-year-old screen legend Alan Arkin. "Apparently naked, not fully naked," (Read More)
Huffington Post:
ESPN has punished Bill Simmons for writing tweets critical of Boston sports radio station WEEI. ESPN.com editor-in-chief Rob King wrote a blog post to confirm the news, writing that "we've taken appropriate measures."ESPN Radio and WEEI announced a partnership on October 7, and Simmons has criticized the Boston station on h (Read More)