I have thick skin when it comes to writing about celebrity deaths, however as a dog lover I'm sad to report that Amanda Bynes' 4-month-old Pomeranian Little Angel has passed away.
Little Angel had went missing yesterday and Bynes ...
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It has been more than a year since Miley Cyrus famously quit using Twitter (October 2009) with more than 1.1 million followers and now she's back, but for reasons you may not have expected.
Cyrus rejoined the social ...
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Look I like Twitter. I spend a lot of time using the service and at one time I even developed a Windows client for it but at some point don't we have to get a grip and ...
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Supertooth wants you to rethink the notion that visor clip-on bluetooth speaker phones should be left in 2008...2005? To make their point the company is pushing out three times more power than a standard clip-on option, while ...
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Jesus Christ, how 'did' news spread virally and/or in real time before Twitter existed?
Did we use message boards? It's difficult to imagine the pre-Twitterian era, but it's been a scant five years since Jack Dorsey sent the ...
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A year after announcing the that the more commonly used "website" could replace the stuffier "Web site" per their widely adopted guidelines, the Associated Press has now updated the AP Stylebook to allow "email" to replace the ...
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Picking juries is tough and there are companies out there making lots of money as jury consultants to lawyers. Then there is the increasing number of problems being faced by the courts over jury members disobeying judges ...
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Kara Swisher from All Things D has the exclusive story that is just breaking about Twitter getting another huge investment from Andreessen Horowitz group to the tune of $80 million.
Sources said that the firm made the move ...
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Awards are for the most part just a way to boost already inflated egos and generally a pointless to show just how important you are - especially when it comes to the new so-called social media awards. sure ...
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Making use of unrelated trending topics on Twitter to promote your business or personal tweets is behavior anyone with any Twitter courtesy knows to be spammy.
Using Twitter to shamelessly self-promote? That's not really too looked down upon, ...
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A study of linguistic patterns among Twitter users has revealed that people in different areas have distinctly identifiable quirks that can be used to determine their geographical region.
Apparently, "suttin" often stands in for "something" among New York ...
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The title of this posts was inspired by an excellent post over at Threat Level by Ryan Singel but is says exactly what my thoughts were when I first read a few days ago that Twitter went ...
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Poor Kanye- first everyone started putting "Liz Lemon" in front of his tweets and re-tweeting them with a hashtag saying "Kanye West is Tracy Jordan," and now Josh Groban has gone and sung his most silly tweets ...
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Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, is pretty much the awesomest mayor on the whole entire Eastern seaboard and maybe in the whole world.
I used to live in Newark, but I only lasted there for like two ...
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Ailing soul singer Aretha Franklin, she of the satellite-sized hat, has been treated recently for the notoriously rough pancreatic cancer.
Twitter rumors have abounded that the 68-year-old songstress had succumbed to the illness, and the tale gained traction ...
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With Twitter it is generally a case of either loving the service or thinking it is the stupidest thing to come along. For those who use Twitter the past year has been an interesting one with more ...
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This is an interesting move and guidance by the Lord Chief Justice of England when it comes to the use of Twitter during active court proceedings. Media organizations and journalists will first have to apply for permission to ...
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Neil Patrick Harris shared his unvarnished opinions on actor Eric Braeden with his million plus Twitter followers after Braeden unkindly declined to fulfill a promise to appear on NPH-starring sitcom How I Met Your Mother.
NPH took to ...
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As Julian Assange remained jailed without charges in Britain awaiting a bail hearing this, the popular narrative regarding Wikileaks shifted massively.
While the previous week centered more on censorship and (in case you forgot) the content of the ...
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Gowalla announced an upgrade to their service today, integrating the app with its two biggest competitors.
Also on the docket is integration with Twitter and Tumblr, but Gowalla 3 is only available for iPhone until January. (iPad, Blackberry ...
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Not that I really care but then I'm not an American or that interested in politicians but for those of you who are and have gotten sucked into this whole social media thing Fast Company has compiled ...
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Twitter may be preparing to expand its location sharing services to take on Foursquare, at least according to a screen shot doing the rounds.
The shot (above) shows an expanded Twitter Places service, with the ability to check-in ...
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