What do Twitter users care about? Based on this week’s most-tweeted trends – pop stars, the environment, Easter, sports and Lady Gaga…. Tweet This Post

Forbes has released its annual list of the world’s billionaires and when it comes to technology, the list includes many of the same faces we see year after year… Tweet This Post

It seems hundreds of Twitter accounts have started to Tweet out “weight loss” product spam today… Tweet This Post

You’re probably familiar with Google AdSense and AdWords, Google’s flagship advertising products. It’s how Google makes its billion of dollars. Highly targeted text ads appear on Google search and third party websites that are part of the AdSense program. Advertisers buy ads based on keywords, with more popular keywords costing more per click than less [...]

Anyone who has ever tried to keep the peace is told to avoid two topics: religion and politics. The latter is precisely the reason a flame war has ensued on Facebook. In an effort to personalize healthcare reform benefits, WhiteHouse.gov launched a “Reality Check” Facebook quiz application to rally for President Barack Obama’s widely disputed [...]

According to a Nielsen report this week, Microsoft’s new BingBing search engine is growing faster than any of its search competitors in the top 10… Tweet This Post

In the wake of the Watergate scandal, the US Congress passed the Presidential Records Act (PRA) in 1978. This act changed the legal ownership of official records from the Executive Office of the President (EOP) from private to public and mandated that these records be filed with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)… Tweet [...]

Fresh off the news that Google is buying reCAPTCHA, another major acquisition rumor has emerged. According to a tweet from Mark Glaser, Executive Editor of PBS MediaShift, “Brightcove in talks with Google about buyout in $500m to $700m range.”… Tweet This Post

First we had the race to 1 million followers on Twitter () (let the history books show that Ashton won). But did you know that a similar battle is brewing over the most Facebook fans? YouTube thinks they can take the title, and to make things more interesting they’re also allowing their Facebook fans to [...]

Twitter’s traffic has grown tremendously in the past year, but how many people are actively using the service versus casually passing by? According to the latest research from eMarketer, that number will be at around 18 million by the end of 2009… Tweet This Post

It’s two weeks early, but many US iPhone users are reporting that their phones now have the ability to send and receive MMS messages (eg. video and images). The hold-up was AT&T, with doubts in the past that its network could handle the load… Tweet This Post

Here’s a very familiar story that we all know: A pair of college kids launch a directory of the Internet that grows to become the most visited site on the web and makes them very rich. Then a few years later, another pair of college kids start a search engine, laser focused on one goal: [...]