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…

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 (including its recently launched Android app ) it detects your location to show you nearby venues, lets you know where your friends are located, and has a …

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.

The 82nd Academy Awards were last night, and it wasn’t just about iPad commercials and pissing matches between media conglomerates ; actual awards were given out, too. Although The Hurt Locker might have taken home the most gold statues (six wins out of nine nominations), one of the most talked-about moments of the night was Sandra Bullock’s acceptance speech for Best Actress. Currently, the speech is being watched by scores of Internet users, according to Google search trends. Bullock won the award for her work in The Blind Side. If you missed the ceremony (or you just want to see her speech again), we’ve got it below. Warning: You just might find yourself getting misty-eyed, despite all better judgment. 2009 was a banner year …

Something peculiar happened yesterday. I was sitting in a coffee shop near work as I often do between sessions when one of the baristas sheepishly approached me. I go in there all the time, so most of them know me by face, if not by name. She said, “Are you Jeff?” I answered in the affirmative and she goes, “There’s someone on the phone for you.” My first thought was that it must be work calling to tell me that there’s been a schedule change. AT&T has spectacularly terrible coverage and this cafe could be a dead zone. One look at my phone confirmed that I was five-bars strong and I had no missed calls. She looked…

1 Points Everyone is talking about the iPad as we near it’s launch on April 3, 2010 and we are sure to be hearing much more in the coming weeks as shipping time comes closer. Apple has shown the first iPad commercial at the Oscars this weekend.

It’s here: the biggest action movie for gadget geeks, Iron Man, returns with a sequel, and you can see just how high-tech it’ll all be in the Iron Man 2 trailer , now available on YouTube. Besides a long-haired, electric whip-wielding Mickey Rourke, the movie features more iron man suits than you could ever desire, and you get to see most of them ripped apart to shreds. Yes, this thing is destined for success. Check out the trailer below. Tags: Iron Man 2 , trending , video , youtube

0 Points One of the changes we DIDN’T like with Facebook’s February redesign last month included the removal of the feature where you could create your own custom Live Feed lists of updates from your favorite Facebook applications and games. For Facebook users who use a great deal of… This is a content summary only, please visit twittown.com for the full article.

The Twittersphere is in love with Justin Bieber . Once again the young pop star tops our top 10 Twitter trends chart, even in spite of the devastating Chile earthquake that also peaked this week as a topic of Twitter conversations. The fresh data, which comes courtesy of the folks at What The Trend , highlights the most popular topics on Twitter. Hashtag memes and games have been omitted from the chart given the topical nature of the list. In looking at the trending data, common themes are starting to emerge and even point to three core audiences – teens, television watchers, and movie goers — turning to Twitter to discuss their favorite subject matter. For example, the Jonas Brothers seem to always be a subject of interest, though certainly not on…

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1 Points Here are some fun statistics about how large twitter is and how many tweets there are.

It seems hundreds of Twitter accounts have started to Tweet out “weight loss” product spam today. Specifically, users who have had their accounts hijacked are Tweeting the message “I lost 20 lbs in 2 weeks!” and links to diet sites. Our source counts over 200 rogue tweets so far tonight. It’s not just new users getting caught out: famous tech pundit John C. Dvorak (@therealdvorak) got caught up in the attack, and was none too pleased. At this point we’re unsure of the cause: Access could have been gained through previous phishing…

Independent research boutique ChangeWave surveyed 3,171 consumers and found that consumer pre-launch interest in the iPad is high. Data demonstrates that consumers are more interested in purchasing an iPad than they were the iPhone prior to launch. Also, 27% of existing e-reader owners indicated they would have purchased the iPad over the model they own now. The study — which was conducted after the iPad announcement — also shows that 40% of respondents in the market to purchase an e-reader in the next 90 days say they will buy an iPad. That number…

The battle for social geolocation domination has expanded to Google’s Android platform, as Gowalla , the primary competitor to Foursquare , has just made its debut on Google’s Android app store. The new Gowalla 1.0 app isn’t some secondhand version of its iPhone counterpart — it’s completely packed with an array of features that allow you to check into locations, view friends, access details about specific locations, and check out your progress completion for trips (a Gowalla feature that lets you earn badges by checking into a set of locations). Essentially, the app is divided into four sections: Activity (a feed of your friend’s activity stream), Spots (where you find nearby…