If you’ve never been to Hong Kong, and you’ve heard legends about the busy streets of the city, you can now see how it looks for yourself without leaving your comfy chair, as Google has launched its Street View service for Hong Kong . The huge city has been covered extremely well; just zoom out of Street View , pull the little yellow  Read More →

1 Points Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been sending not-too-subtle signals for a long time now that the future of Facebook won’t be happening at the Facebook.com domain. The world’s largest-growing social network will take a great leap toward that eventuality this year,… This is a content summary only, please visit twittown.com for the full article.  Read More →

1 Points Comscore has posted their latest mobile market share and usage findings for the United States.  Read More →

A new study from security firm Barracuda Labs provides some interesting insights into the state of the Twitterverse. Unfortunately for the microblogging startup, the stats say that most of its users aren’t very active. The study looked at around 19 million Twitter accounts (PDF) in order to figure out how people are using Twitter. It started with one assumption: an active or “True” Twitter user has at least 10 followers, follows... 

1 Points In order to continue to position themselves as THE social network for gaming, MySpace announced today at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco that they are launching a new “MySpace Games Experience”.  Read More →

When it comes to competition, CNN president Jon Klein fears Facebook. The man at the top of the news network believes that the social network is more of a threat to his business than other broadcast media organizations. In a recent question-and-answer session with BusinessWeek, Klein specifically states , “We want to be the most trusted source,” and, “I’m more worried about the 500 million or so people on Facebook versus... 

When I first discovered there were APIs that would allow me to schedule tweets, I thought I was in Twitter Heaven. I could schedule a time to tweet everything I wanted ahead time, and I’d never have to worry about missing an opportunity to promote my site. (Yeah, I was still residing in Spamville back then.) So I scheduled my list of tweets and didn’t think twice about it…until I noticed a few followers started dropping off. I... 

You think the iPad will be the only tablet we’ll talk about in 2010? Not even close. According to Arm’s worldwide mobile computing ODM manager Roy Chen, we can expect as many as 50 tablets before the year’s end. “The first tablet devices will launch in the second quarter by [mobile network] carriers. You’ll see a lot more in the third quarter,” said Chen. He declined to name specific companies that will launch... 

0 Points Amidst the buzz about this week’s upcoming SXSW  Read More →

Back in October we wrote about Appboy , a social network for mobile app developers and users. Since launching, Appboy has continued to evolve into a community for both developers and users to find and rate apps, as well as submit ideas for new mobile applications. Appboy has just rolled out a big update to its site which improves the design, adds stronger integration with Facebook and Twitter, and makes it easy to keep up with what your favorite... 

As Director of Twitter’s Trust and Safety team, a big part of my job is focused on the detection and prevention of spam and abuse. A couple weeks ago, Biz explained how Twitter users were being victimized by phishing scams spread primarily through links in Direct Messages. Basically, people click the link and bad things happen. My team can only detect these scams after malicious links have already been sent out. Today, we’re launching a... 

Rebecca Zook is an online female math tutor who has been helping students get math into their brains for seven years. She blogs about learning at Triangle Suitcase . Over half a million votes were cast to decide Barbie’s newest career . But even though Computer Engineer Barbie was developed in consultation with the Society of Women Engineers and the National Academy of Engineering , the new doll’s appearance has sparked controversy. While... 

Every new car has a manual in its glove compartment. Software applications have a help link when you get stuck or want to learn more about a feature. User assistance is part of our web and so is Twitter. How can Twitter can be useful for technical writers, trainers, or web publishers who provide customer support or technical education? Monitor and…  Read More →

Foursquare is battling for your SXSW check-ins with a musical scavenger hunt . Rival Gowalla is going to go after them with free gadgets – specifically free Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus devices as part of a promotion the location-based social networking service is unveiling in conjunction with their just-launched app for webOS. The app should hit the Palm App Catalog on Tuesday, and like the company’s applications for other platforms... 

1 Points When Peter Chapman was arrested in October of 2009 for the kidnapping, rape and murder of seventeen year-old Ashleigh Hall, traditional print and online media were there to point the finger at Facebook and other social networks, slathering a huge serving of blame across Facebook in… This is a content summary only, please visit twittown.com for the full article.  Read More →