The Twitter Ecosystem Explored

In some business circles, Twitter's an accepted part of the scenery by now; people have figured the service out and are using it to accomplish impressive things.  Not everyone's taken to Twitter like a duck to water, though, and so at PubCon South, a few of the folks who are further along led a session on the Twitter landscape.

Google Checkout Ups Its Fees

In early May, merchants will start being charged larger fees for using Google Checkout. Google is also discontinuing AdWords free transaction processing.

Google Reader Gets More Social With Commenting

Google has added a lot of sharing-based features to Google Reader in recent memory, but it has now launched the ability to have conversations among those who are sharing items. Google acknowledges that this is a key element of sharing that the service has been lacking. I would have to agree.

Google Launches Preview of Google Voice

Google has launched a preview of Google Voice, which is an application that lets you manage voice communications by converting voicemails to text. Google Voice is the new version of GrandCentral, which Google acquired back in 2007. For now, GrandCentral users are the only ones that get Google Voice.

Law, Order, Facebook, And Twitter

Not too long ago, the most important things discussed on Facebook and Twitter related to people's relationships and what was for lunch.  Then we moved into job-loss and non-fatal-plane-crash territory.  Now, a couple of stories with links to the criminal justice system have cropped up.