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Twitter announced on their blog that they have acquired Atebits (AKA Loren Britcher) to acquire Tweetie the leading iPhone Twitter client. Tweetie therefore will be renamed Twitter for iPhone and will be made free. Prior to the acquisition the app for available in the Apple App store for about $3 and will now be available for free. "We're thrilled to   announce   that we've entered into an agreement with Atebits (aka Loren Brichter) to acquire Tweetie, a leading iPhone Twitter client. Tweetie will be renamed Twitter for iPhone and made free (currently $2.99) in the iTunes AppStore in the coming weeks. Loren will become a key member of our mobile team that is already having huge impact with device makers and service providers around the world. Loren's work won the 2009 Apple Design Award and we will eventually launch Twitter for iPad with his help. As we work to provide the best possible Twitter experience on all of the major mobile platforms, momentum will increase dra...

Jim Carrey  who announced his split from Jenny McCarthy this week on Twitter has posted several tweets defending Tiger Woods and criticizing Wood's wife Elin. Jim has since toned down his tweets but here are the Tweets he posted regarding the Tiger Woods episode. Tiger Woods owes nothing 2 anyone but himself. 2 please his father he gave up his childhood and his freedom in the world. That's enough!---> No wife is blind enough to miss that much infidelity. Elin had 2 b a willing participant on the ride 4 whatever reason. kids/lifestyle ;^) Whenever we form a consensus about some1 we envy, who's stumbling, our collective ego LOVES to flex it's unified muscle! S'ugly! }%^O RT I want 2 make it CLEAR that I do not condone infidelity at all, but 2 some degree the responsibilty 4 it is shared by both people! ;^) In any event, infidelity has never been an issue 4 me. If I tried to keep a secret like that, I would grow a tumor and devil horns! }:^ My people called and said...

Yes it's Happy Birthday Twitter once again. March 21st 2006 was when Twitter saw it's first Tweet. Jack Dorsey sent the first Tweet " Just Setting up my Twttr". 4 years on and Twitter is totally becoming a global phenomena averaging 50 millions Tweets a day. Hated by some loved my many Twitter attracts some sort of response. Being lukewarm towards Twitter is not something you see.  Twitter has changed the world 140 characters at a time. Happy Birthday Twitter. An original post by Sociolatte

Facebook has now started sending Facebook page updates for people who have created their own Facebook pages. Of course your page needs to have some traction before you get these updates. It is also a good way for Page creators to get the updates on how well or not so well their page is doing and your encouraged to work on it some more. This new feature of Facebook has been launched more aggressively ever since their became the most visited site in the US. Yes, for a whole week Facebook had beaten even Google to become the No1 most visited site. The whole of last week Facebook held the number one spot. Facebook now seems to want to set the importance of their service in terms of driving traffic to your page and even your websites. It become more and more important to make sure your websites are optimized for Facebook as their importance in generating traffic grows. People who own pages on Facebook can now get weekly updates of their pages on Facebook and think of ways to make it better ...

16 year old Adorion Deck who started the @omgfacts page located here.  http://twitter.com/omgfacts . in September of 2009 and amassed more that 300k+ followers spoke with ABC news.  Deck mined the internet and started posting little know facts about everything from celebs to electronics and just about everything. He was followed by all kinds of people who enjoyed his daily dose of #OMGFacts But on Monday, Twitter taught the high school junior a lesson he'll never forget. After he posted a controversial Tweet on Dr. martin Luther King MLK Post Creates 'Firestorm' of Criticism "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spent his last night on Earth having sex with two women," he posted. And with that, the barbs started to fly. "Unfollow @OMGFacts for their crude tweet about Martin Luther King Jr yesterday!," posted one tweeter. "What a disrespectful way to dishonor MLK," posted another. After realizing what he had done he deleted the Tweet and temporarily del...

Oh yes this is definitely a first. Made possible by NASA who gave space station astronauts direct access to the web. Called by NASA as the ultimate wireless connection. T J Creamer an astronaut working on the Space Station sent out this Tweet.Previously Astronauts had to send an e-mail back to earth before news could spread. Now the just access Twitter and make the best use of it Hello Twitterverse ! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station -- the 1st live tweet from Space! :) More soon, send your ?s T J Creamer can be found at @ Astro_TJ An original post by Sociolatte

Facebook announced via  Jonathan Heiliger  that Facebook is building a new custom built data center, at the cost price of $180 million. "When Facebook first began with a small group of people using it and no photos or videos to display, the entire service could run on a single server. However, as the site expanded to different colleges around the U.S., we needed to add more servers and data center capacity to keep up with the increasing number of people who were joining every day. Initially, as most Internet startups do, we leased data center space alongside other companies in the same building. As our user base continued to grow and we developed Facebook into a much richer service, we reached the point where it was more efficient to lease entire buildings on our own. We are now ready to build our own." Jonathan also spoke about energy efficient technologies that would be used " Energy-Efficient Technologies Along with making sure Facebook operates quickly for you, we wa...

Yes after joining Twitter and Facebook Bill Gates has now launched a  website  to share his thoughts. On his website you see the sections What I'm thinking about, What I'm learning, Curious Classroom, My travels, Conversations and Infrequently asked questions. The website is filled with info on what Bill is on about these days. There is also a lot of learning to be had from the website. Where he does try to answer as best the problems of poverty and energy and what he things is the way these issues need to be addressed. He has also now got a lot of exposure in the field and is sharing all this with people who would like to know. All in all he sounds like a teacher and if your expecting to read anything personal forget it. This is all about Bill Gates and his charity work. An original post by Sociolatte

Here is another sad ending Facebook story of a St. George man who hanged himself after posting on his wall his intentions. It seems he did not really give anyone time to react and when his friends started calling his cell phone there was no answer. 911 was also called and by the time they  reached he had gone through with his threat. Found the below extract on silive and think they put everything down so clear into words I have pasted it below A St. George man hanged himself this afternoon, sources say, moments after posting his intentions on his public Facebook.com profile. William Rodriguez posted the following on the social networking site: "fdny wants to fire me. I didn't do what they said I did. met an old friend at bhs said they want my job I should have listened to her. When I take my meds I'm manic when I don't I'm severly depressed like I am now. I see planes crashing into buildings in my dreams and I wake up in cold sweats. I can't go on anymore. I ...

Hello world, Bill Gates has joined twitter and is available @BillGates . He also launched a Facebook page located here .  As this post is being written there are already 56,076 people following Bill Gates and it is increasing by the hour. His first post was  "Hello World." Hard at work on my foundation letter - publishing on 1/25.   RyanSeacrest      Just got a call from cnn. here are the final numbers raised from last nights show.. for unicef + american red cross $8,944,956 Thank You! TIME      We've assembled a list of sources tweeting live from Haiti - follow it here:  http://twitter.com/TIME/haiti @ RyanSeacrest  - thanks for your work on this, it will have a real impact for the people in Haiti who need it most. Bill Gates also follows 40 people. His Facebook page at this time has 50,977 fans and set to increase. His latest post has his photos from India. where he did work on his Bill and Malinda Gates foundation.  Gates had once said that he was on Facebook but said ...

Facebook has launched a page called Global Disaster Relief . The first task seems to be to mobilize support for the victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti. This page will help in the Haiti disaster and any other disasters that may occur in the future. 1000's of Dollars have already been raised through Facebook causes. So with the launching of this page Facebook will have one point of contact where users can come to to be a part of their global relief efforts.  Facebook is serious about promoting this page. The social site as in the spirit of it's creators believe that a one stop shop will be good. Where people can come to find info and also help. It could become a globally coordinated effort. As of this time of writing this there are already 43, 036 fans of the page. Posted below we have a video found on the page of former president Bill Clinton and how we can all help haiti. "The Global Disaster Relief on Facebook page will spotlight efforts on Facebook to help respond...

The Facebook group " 1000 to get tess ungrounded" has now crossed the 1000 mark. The story so far. A teen goes out to a party gets drunk and misses her 11:30 deadline by an hour. Get's punished by her parents and is grounded for 5 weeks. Tess Chapman a starts a Facebook group to help her get ungrounded. This is what she had to say on her group homepage  Description: so basically i was grounded for 5 weeks for a MISTAKE that i didnt fully know the outcome of. my parents flipped sh** and grounded me for 5 WEEKS. thats my childhood right there. please join so i can convice them to unground me. please please please. you guys all know what its like to be a teenager with (sometimes) difficult parents, so lets ban together as teenagers and proove something to my parents, there are actin a fool. The surprising thing is that most people on the group agree that the punishment is good and she needs to go through it. Many are also surprised that she has access to a pc, internet and ...

TwitPic is generating $1.5 to $2 million in ad sales on an annual basis, with 70% profit margins, says its founder Noah Everett, in an interview with Mixergy. Everett says that 70% is net profit, or "what we can put in the bank at the end of the day." He's aiming for $3-$4 million in revenue by next year. Everett never raised any financing. TwitPic's success has turned heads. Everett says he's received offers of more than $10 million for the company, but turned them down. Twitpic is a Photo sharing application built on Twitter. So in simple words it let's you share photos on Twitter via phone, computer or Apps. Twitpic currently has 67 million photos uploaded. He turned down the offer because he loves to run Twitpic and it's like his baby. Business Tips via Mixergy, home of the ambitious upstart! An original post by Sociolatte

Most Social Netoworking sites will let you know when you have a friend request but few will let you know when you have been unfriended. If we can use that word. Being Defriended is one thing most users like to find out about. Unfortunately on Facebook if you want to know who has defriended you you need to browse through your list of friends and find the missing person. An iPhone App launched about a week ago was able to do just that. Let you know when you've been defriended and by whome. The App Called Defriended created by  i-Doodz has unfortunalty been blocked by Facebook. As it violates Facebook's Developers platform policies which states " you must not notify a user that someone has removed the user as a friend." In other words, Facebook doesn't want you to know who doesn't want to be your friend ". Today, a message on the i-Doodz site states: Last week our developer was bored one evening, had an idea, and a few hours later uploaded the "defrien...

Facebook has partnered with McAfee to offer free antivirus to it's 350 million users free for a period of 6 months. After which you can still use it provided you pay a discounted annual fee. This is helpful but a far cry from real protection. To make sure your account is not compromised it is really up to the user. User's need to be able to recognize security threats to their accounts. Facebook has listed a few things you need to be aware of. Don't open attachments in emails that look suspicious or come from an unknown or untrustworthy source. Don't open attachments unless you know what they are, even if they're from friends. Delete chain mail and spam from your email and Facebook inboxes. Be cautious when downloading files from the Internet. Be cautious of any message, post or link you see on Facebook that looks suspicious, requires an additional login, or asks you to download or upgrade software. Use an up-to-date browser that features an anti-phishing blacklist....

The nocturnal house of the woodland park zoo has announced that it is going to close due to budget constraints. Zoo President and CEO Deborah Jensen said the zoo had to make tough financial decisions to cut $800,000. It plans to lay off 12 employees and close the Nocturnal House. The exhibit was one of the biggest energy users at the zoo and the animals will be easy to move when the exhibit closes. Some of the animals will remain at the zoo, and some will go to other zoos. Closing the exhibit will save the zoo $300,000, said zoo officials. The zoo's operating budget is $30 million a year."It was a very hard decision to make," Jensen said. "None of us are happy about it." Scot Gifford launched a Facebook group to help the Zoo change it's mind. "It's not closed 'til it's closed," said Gifford, who hopes his organized effort will prompt the zoo to change its mind. Below is description found on his group. As of writing this article there a...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg speaking at the crunchie awards in San Francisco this weekend said that online privacy is no longer the 'social norm'. With more and more people getting connected online and sharing information it is no longer something to be worried about. With the rise of blogs and other social mediums people are sharing all kinds of things. A lot of the information being shared is also quiet personal. Reflecting the state of the companies privacy outlook. Their recent change sparked a lot of angry protests online. But we did not see people leaving the site in their 1,000. It looks like everyone stayed and got on with things. These changes initiated on Facebook reflect the social norms as it is today and as Facebook see it. "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people," he said. "That social norm is just something that has evolved over time." Zuckerberg s...

VitaminWater 's new flavor will now be called 'Connect' complete with a Facebook logo and all. Based and created on feedback from their Facebook fans. A Facebook drink. Found on a post on their Facebook page   unlike the never-ending debate over whether it's rock-paper-scissors or paper-rock-scissors, based on your votes and your designs, the latest flavor of vitaminwater has FINALLY been decided... introducing the black cherry-lime flavored vitaminwater named... connect! check out this new package- flavor & ingredients, nam e & label design- all inspired by you- our fans. it's got 8 key nutrients plus caffeine. thanks for all your help- especially to the grand prize winner Sarah from Illinois and the four other finalist  http://budurl.com/q27w . vitaminwater connect will be available in stores nationwide in march this year- so until then, stay hydrated- and keep your eyes here for news, updates and special offers for connect, including a possible sneak ta...

Another silicon valley company following the tested and tried method of offering fellowships to Ph.D students doing computer science has just gotten underway. Facebook has announced their fellowship program . How does the industry keep up with new ideas originating out of academia.Companies really want to tap into this source and keep their fingers on the pulse. Get involved, that's how. Facebook with this new program applicable to students doing their Ph.D does not want to be left out of some great ideas and latest know-how. The program was created to support graduate programs for the year 2010 -2011 Award Details. Tuition and fees will be paid for the academic year. $30K stipend (paid over 9 months of the academic year). $5K per year toward conference attendance and travel. $5K toward a personal computer. Opportunity to apply for a paid summer internship. Recipients are responsible for the taxation on any funds. Internet Economics:  auction theory and algorithmic game theory rele...