Jun 25, 2009

Mashable! Earlier this year, Pizza Hut received a lot of buzz when it announced it was hiring for a “Twintern” – a summer intern that would be responsible for maintaining the company’s presence on Twitter and other social media sites. This week, the selected Twintern, Alexis Robinson, reported to work, and her first move is to offer (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

VentureBeat Microsoft just released its prices for Windows 7, the latest version of its operating system, and not surprisingly the software giant is dropping the cost for home users.For example, an upgrade to the “home premium” version Windows 7 will cost $119.99, while a similar Vista upgrade currently costs around $129.99, and was in (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

Crunch Gear Here's more evidence that texting and driving is terribly dangerous. Car and Driver magazine tested to see how long it takes to hit the brake when completely unimpaired, legally drunk, reading e-mail, and sending a text message. It turns out that sending a text message adds 70 feet to your drive before you hit the break, th (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

VentureBeat Flash games supported by advertising have been hit hard by the recession. But Heyzap hopes to help the masses of Flash game developers with a new virtual good system that allows the games to be monetized through micro-transactions.While such systems are becoming common at game portals and social games, it is novel in Flash (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

Mashable! Alison Driscoll is an interactive copywriter and social media consultant who specializes in Facebook. She authors a blog at alisondriscoll.com.When Facebook first launched, we joined any and every Group we received an invite for. Now, Pages have taken over, offering us more content and interactivity than Groups could ever h (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

TechCrunch The drama in iPhone porn world continues. Yesterday, Hottest Girls, the first app with nudity was accepted into the App Store. But early this morning it was made unavailable, and everyone presumed Apple was behind it. But apparently, the app has not been pulled from the App Store by Apple, but rather by the developers becau (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

TechCrunch Yuck! Today, I’m told, is National Handshake Day. It’s also National Handshake Day & National Chocolate Pudding Day, apparently. And, err, it’s National Watermelon Seed Spitting Week.But back the the handshaking thing. It’s disgusting and we need to put a stop to this medieval practice. Most people agree with me. Those that (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

VentureBeat Posterous, the blogging service that lets you submit entries via email or text message, has acquired Slinkset, a platform that lets you add the ability to vote web content and comments up or down — like on popular social news like Reddit. The deal is interesting because both startups were born out of seed-stage incubator Y (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

VentureBeat ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — the governing body for the rules regarding domain names, among other things — is about to announce a new president and chief executive. An AP report yesterday and another today in The Australian both point to Rod Beckstrom, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and au (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

Delicious/wbuist It's been a long time coming, but according to a message posted to the Google Voice Twitter account this morning, as well as a posting on the Google Blog, Google is getting ready to open up its free Google Voice service to more users. According to NBC's Janet Shamlian, who did a piece about Google Voice for the Today Show t (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

Submitted by Welovecrowds from blog: The US Office of Management and Budget issued new reporting guidelines this week for recipients of the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and the normally polite geek watchdog organization the Sunlight Foundation has come out swinging."...[A]bsent from the new instruction is a requirement to make r (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

readwriteweb As a major addition to its on-demand suite, IBM has unveiled LotusLive Connections at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference, where it won the Cloud Computing Technology Buyers' Choice Award. LotusLive has long revolved around Web conferencing, with other features being somewhat secondary. The real power for the enterprise came from (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

readwriteweb Looking for a good conspiracy theory today? Well here's one: Chris Almond, the administrator of a Facebook group called the Rogue Facebook Apps Early Warning Group just got kicked off the social network. Why did this happen? Did Facebook not like how he was posting details about Facebook malware, hacks, and attacks? Attacks (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

Mashable! This is the fourth post in Mashable’s Summer of Social Good series on #FindingTheGood, a week of posts dedicated to profiling charitable initiatives using social media. Oxfam America is one of the four Summer of Social Good charities.Millions of people around the world live in poverty, without access to adequate supplies of (Read More)

Jun 25, 2009

VentureBeat Spiracur, developer of a device used to heal small wounds effectively, has brought in $20.3 million in a second round of funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, New Leaf Venture Partners and De Novo Ventures, reports VentureWire. Not much is known about the Redwood City, Calif. company’s technology.Spiracur has raise (Read More)

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