We have asked some of our friends and colleagues who attended technology and new media conference South By Southwest Interactive (SxSWi) to share their highlights and takeaways from the conference, which wrapped up earlier this week. Today we share the third part (of four) by guest correspondent Susan Bratton: Social networks & online communities Some […]

We have asked some of our friends and colleagues who attended technology and new media conference South By Southwest Interactive (SxSWi) to share their highlights and takeaways from the conference, which wrapped up earlier this week. Today we share the first part (of four) by guest correspondent Susan Bratton: Susan says: SXSW is “old home […]

Uptime and performance monitoring service Pingdom has done a study of social network uptime in 2008. They looked at some of the more heavily-used sites – Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, Friendster, LiveJournal, Orkut, Bebo, Hi5, Windows Live Spaces, Last.fm, Classmates.com, Reunion.com, Xanga and Imeem. Twitter and LinkedIn experienced the greatest amount of downtime in 2008, […]

The Pew Internet Project reports that, as of December 2008, 11% of online American adults have used a service like Twitter or another service to share updates about themselves or to see the updates of others.

The Association Of Music Podcasting – a group of music podcasters who want to promote music via podcasts – is now on Twitter. If you’re interested in using or listening to music in podcasts, check them out: AMP postings and news are now available via twitter. Go to http://twitter.com/musicpodcasting to follow the latest information. Checkout […]

Actor and author Stephen Fry has a blog post today about his experience with Twitter. After a recent interview on BBC TV, during which he discussed the microblogging application, the number of Fry’s Twitter Followers surged past 80,000. Fry sings the praises of Twitter, and its ability to showcase the best things about human interaction: […]

TechMeme has announced that it is officially incorporating Twitter into its process for gathering and publishing news. According to TechMeme’s Gabe Rivera: Often there are Techmeme readers aware of great stories that have fallen through the cracks, or are taking too long to appear on Techmeme. So I’ve long wanted to enable news tips, but […]

Podcasting and social media guru Chris Penn has published a free eBook, the Twitter Power Guide, that’s a must-read for Twitter users.

Wizag’s Twitter Trend (App Store link) is a free iPhone app designed to do one thing – make it easy to see what people are talking about on Twitter.  The app lets you discover Hot, Rising and Emerging topics from thousands of tweets, so you can see what’s happening in one glance: Hot: Most popular […]

Microblogging service Pownce announced today that it has been acquired by Six Apart, the blogging software and hosting company behind Moveable Type, Vox, and TypePad.  Pownce will shut down two weeks from now, on December 15.  Buyer Six Apart says they are “very sorry the site will be closing.” Founded by Digg’s Kevin Rose and […]