Every day, hundreds of tweets fly past our eyes with links to important articles, meaningless drivel and the occasional self-promotion. There’s little, if any, way to tell what’s important and what’s not. Feedtrace has stepped in to try to fill this void and let you know what people are linking to that you might care … Read More

Remember this insane transparent OLED laptop we saw at CES? Well, Samsung is actually planning on selling this ludicrous contraption within a year. Prediction: it will be expensive and not worth it. But we’ll see! [ PlusPlasticElectronics via OLED-Info ]

Original Source of Samsung to Release Laptop with a Transparent Screen within 12 Months [Laptops] … Read More

With its 140 character limit, Twitter is all about brevity . But if you think the same shouldn’t apply for a job application, well then, “you’re done.” This Craigslist job listing has some interesting rules, to say the least. While the eye-grabbing headline is asking for a “Twitter Genius” in Greenwich Village, the actual role … Read More

Yesterday we reported that Twitter user and cancer-fighter Drew Olanoff is auctioning his Twitter name, @drew , to raise money for the LIVESTRONG Foundation. He’s enjoying early success: today The Price is Right host Drew Carey placed a bid for $25K , far in excess of the $10K minimum bid. What’s more, Carey says he … Read More

Twitter just announced that the rumors were indeed true and that it has just closed a “significant round of funding” from a group of five investment firms. While Twitter didn’t disclose the actual amount it received today, the Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that Twitter was going to close a $100 million round which would … Read More

While it’s unlikely that Twitter CEO Evan Williams was wearing a Dr. Evil costume when he delivered the news, he had the pleasure of announcing his company’s $1 billion dollar valuation today at an all hands meeting. According to TechCrunch , the company has raised a $50 million dollar funding round and the money will … Read More

This is completely a rumor, but an awesome one. Citing a “pretty reliable” source, Boy Genius Report is saying that the next version of iTunes will add a bunch of new, highly requested features. Specificially, BGR’s source says iTunes 9 features Blu-ray support, a new way to organize iPhone apps within iTunes, as well some … Read More

A lot of people are now reporting on Twitter that Facebook walls across the social web just got a ton of clutter from what appears to be the at least the official Twitter and FriendFeed applications on Facebook. Specifically, they’re posting your updates onto your wall, regardless of your application or Facebook settings. Like most … Read More

Logitech’s Vid system is hitting these seven new webcams, and signals that they really want the Vid system to be ubiquitous with Logitech webcams. The Vid, which we tested out last month, is basically Skype, minus all the complexities of signing up and configuring and adding users. Just enter your email, enter the email of … Read More

Following Vodafone, O2 UK has recently announced a partnership with Twitter, which will provide free SMS alerts from Twitter, starting August this year. In consequence, O2’s customers will be able to receive tweets, @mentions and direct messages on their phones. Also, they’ll be able to send replies via SMS, at standard network rates. Although receiving … Read More

As founding editor of ReadWriteWeb, every weekend I’ll pick out 2-3 posts from the past week which I thought were particularly good and worth highlighting. Last week Marshall Kirkpatrick, RWW’s lead writer and VP Content Development, wrote an intriguing analysis of the impact Twitter has had on our culture. The basis of the post was … Read More

Just to follow up on a story from last month, St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa has now officially dropped his lawsuit against Twitter. La Russa had been suing the service for someone who was pretending to be him and was seeking ““unspecified damages.” He got none of those, nor will he get anything … Read More

UPDATE: Ellen and Diddy’s Twitter accounts also posted fake death announcements today as part of the same attack. – After a series of tragic celebrity deaths this week – including Michael Jackson , Billy Mays, Farrah Fawcett and Ed McMahon – it was perhaps more shocking for Britney Spears fans to read the following Tweet … Read More

A tribute song to Michael Jackson featuring The Game, Chris Brown, Diddy, Usher, Mario Winans, Boyz2Men and other leading artists has resulted in an unprecedented number of downloads today from Box.net, the file sharing site we’ve been tracking for over 3 years. The song was spread largely through social media: Diddy tweeted the link to … Read More

According to spam-filtration service BotKiller , Twitter spam comprises up to 3.69 percent of all tweets. They’ve been working on a solution to cleanse the stream of Twitter spam; their new product tags and blocks computer-generated tweets with a minimal margin of false positives. BotKiller is a product of Rarefied Technologies , an open-source company … Read More