Trulia Takes In More Funding

Which would you research more: a seemingly safe purchase when you have lots of cash, or a risky one when the economy's bad?  It makes a great deal of sense, then, that real estate site Trulia has just raised $15 million in funding.

Twitter Campaign Lauds Laxer Rules For Congress 2.0

Though many were disappointed yesterday in Representative John Culberson's (R-TX) partisan scapegoating via Twitter, he did sort of fall backwards over an important issue. The issue wasn't that Democrats were seeking to abridge Congressional freedom of speech as it related to Web 2.0 applications, but that Congressional freedom of speech had already been abridged via previously established draconian gag rules.  

Overstock.com To Stop Selling Fur

Online retailer Overstock.com said today that it will no longer sell fur on its Web site.The decision to stop selling fur came after the company was contacted by the Humane Society of the United States, which says around 100 retailers and designers have promised not to use fur in their products.

CNN Brings Twitter Mainstream

You might say we've developed a bit of a fascination with Twitter, what with all the coverage and launching our own Twitter people directory, Twellow. Now that even CNN's talking about Twitter, we're reminded we were once fascinated by another upstart before it went mainstream: Google.