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Make Your Home Tweet Its Energy Use (Earth Day Project!)
Written by Sarah Perez / April 22, 2009 10:12 AM / 17 Comments
Peter Troast, founder of Energy Circle, a company that sells energy-saving products, has created a new energy-monitoring system that sends his home's energy usage stats to Twitter. Inspired by the Continue reading »


Google Analytics Gets an API
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 22, 2009 10:09 AM / 3 Comments
Google Analytics, Google's tool for generating detailed visitor stats for web sites, just launched an API, which will finally allow developers to create desktop and online tools that can use Continue reading »


US State Dept. Sends Twitter to Iraq
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 22, 2009 9:16 AM / 7 Comments
Twitter co-founder, Jack Dorsey, is visiting Iraq to bring the microblogging service into government and civil society there. In an interview with CNN's American Morning (embedded below) Dorsey says he Continue reading »


PBS Launches New Video Portal for Its Shows
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 22, 2009 9:00 AM / 5 Comments
NPR has a great site to find its line-up of podcasts, but until now, PBS only featured videos from its TV shows on their respective homepages. Now, however, viewers will Continue reading »


FeaturedUsers Launches Twitter Ad Network (+Freebies for You)
Written by Sarah Perez / April 22, 2009 6:35 AM / 24 Comments
Dusty Reagan, who runs the Twitter app FriendOrFollow, recently launched a new Twitter ad network called FeaturedUsers. Before you moan and groan about how Twitter is becoming too commercialized, listen Continue reading »


3deep Makes Your Smartphone a Personal Assistant
Written by Phil Glockner / April 21, 2009 8:00 PM / 5 Comments
As a technology news writer, you get pretty good at sizing up the potential of a new project or product pretty quickly. It is easy to get a little jaded, Continue reading »


Jimmy Wales: Social Web Marketing - Good for Some, Not for All
Written by Lidija Davis / April 21, 2009 6:12 PM / 11 Comments
According to Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, there are too many Indians and not enough Chiefs in the world of Web 2.0 marketing today. "There is a lot of advice Continue reading »


Now You Can Change What Google Says About You
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 21, 2009 1:01 PM / 65 Comments
Google me? I'll Google you! Google has become the de facto public record these days but most people remain in relative obscurity there and/or digg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_news/Now_You_Can_Change_What_Google_Says_About_You';digg_bgcolor = '#ffffff';digg_skin = Continue reading »


No Doubt About It - Oprah Brought Lots of New Users to Twitter
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 21, 2009 12:34 PM / 11 Comments
Oprah's well publicized first tweet on Friday was definitely a boon for Twitter. According to Hitwise, 37% of all visits to Twitter last Friday were from new visitors, and Twitter's Continue reading »


Windows Live Becomes Even More Social: Integrates Facebook, Last.fm, Digg, and Others
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 21, 2009 12:02 PM / 1 Comments
Windows Live received a major makeover last November, and part of this makeover included the ability to aggregate updates from third-party services like Flickr, Pandora, or Twitter. Today, Microsoft announced Continue reading »


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