You’ve heard endless rumors, speculation, and theories as to how Twitter will monetize itself. Biz Stone has now confirmed Twitter will be launching its own fee-based services this year after watching others make money of Twitter themselves. The Wall Street Journal Reports:
Reading, Writing, ‘Rithmetic & Twitter?
The horrors of war and the odd perversions of the Victorian era might be a little much for an eight year old. But Twitter, blogging, podcasting, and Wikipedia might just be the 21st century ticket to learning.
Educators in Britain are mulling proposed changes to primary school curriculum that would require kids be taught modern Web-based communication and information retrieval skills instead of teaching them about World War II. War they can learn about in high school.
China Pleads Innocence For YouTube Outage
Remember all the discussion of China and its approach to the Internet that was heard around the Beijing Olympics? It seems that a lot of that type of coverage has slid into the background until recently. Apparently once Google gets involved these items become news again.
Firefox Vulnerability Leaves Computers Open To Attack
There has been a lot of talk recently about browsers and the maneuvering that is occurring in that space due to new releases and expiring agreements and more.
Facebook Attracting More of the Older Crowd
Facebook has received a lot of criticism in recent weeks as it rolled out some pretty big changes in design and functionality. Such changes and criticism did not do much to slow down growth of the site however.
Christian Science Monitor Moves To The Web
The Christian Science Monitor will print its final edition tomorrow as it moves to an online only publication.
The Monitor announced its plans in October to end its daily print edition and become the first major international paper to embrace digital media.
Twitter Co-Founder Talks Suggested Users
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has shared some insight into how Twitter selects accounts for the Suggested Users box. You know, that box that newcomers see when they sign up that Jason Calacanis is trying to buy a top spot in.
YouTube Changes Names of Video Sections
In a bit of what YouTube refers to as "Spring cleaning," the site has made a few changes to the names of modules on the home page. YouTube says it’s an effort to help users understand where videos come from and why YouTube thinks you will like them.
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Popular Game Themes Come To iGoogle
Never mind money, search, and advertising for a minute. Whether you go home every evening and power up a PS3 or just have fond memories of early arcade and Nintendo games, Google’s got something to bring a smile to your face as gaming themes for iGoogle have been unveiled.
UK iPhone Users Most Active Online
The majority (93%) of iPhone owners in the United Kingdom accessed mobile media in January, according to comScore.
Mobile email is used by 75 percent of British iPhone owners, making it the most popular type of mobile content consumed on the device.
"Consumers are clearly embracing the iPhone’s touch screen keyboard," said Alistair Hill, analyst, comScore. "The penetration of e-mail usage on the iPhone is more than double that of the smartphone category as a whole."