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Did Twitter Just Swipe TweetDeck From UberMedia?

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Twitter is “in advanced talks” to buy UK-based TweetDeck for $50 million. Normally this would have merely raised an eyebrow from me, but I actually did a double take because wasn’t TweetDeck owned by Pasadena-based UberMedia?

How Much Does Mainstream Media Influence Twitter Trends?

Did you know that HP has a “Social Computing Lab” in Palo Alto where they run academic studies (some in partnership with Stanford University) to understand how social media works?

Neither did I.

A couple months ago, the group released their findings from a particular study aimed at figuring out what causes something on Twitter to become a “trending topic.”

China Blocks LinkedIn, Ramps Up Censorship Fearing Civil Unrest Following ‘Jasmine Revolution’

VentureBeat is reporting that LinkedIn is now blocked in China, joining Twitter and Facebook as major social networking sites that have been caught by the “Great Firewall of China.” It’s no surprise that the Chinese government is a little ban-happy these days due to the recent revolutions in Egypt and Libya. Over the weekend, a small group of dissidents tried to organize a peaceful protest at the Wangfujing shopping district in Beijing called the “jasmine revolution.”

Google Accuses Microsoft’s Bing Of Cheating, Get Into Twitter Fight

The gloves have finally come off in the search engine wars. Yesterday, Google fired the first salvo at Microsoft, accusing its Bing service of blatantly pilfering search engine results from Google’s own results. Microsoft initially said “so what?” to the claim, then eventually shifted to the offensive as the day went on.

Twitter And Saynow Step In To Help Egypt: Social Entrepreneurism At Its Best!

Combining forces with Saynow, a voicemail messaging company popularized by celebs using it to communicate with their fans, Twitter and Saynow have created a solution to help the people of Egypt communicate with the world.

Dave Winer Predicts What Will Become of Twitter

What rises to replace it will either be an open system built around RSS, or something indistinguishable from RSS. I would stake my reputation as a technologist on this one.

TechCrunch and Dave Winer Get Into Twitter Fight With Scoble Watching

So I’m about to curl into bed with a movie on my iPad last night when I notice a flurry of Tweets from the “father of blogging,” Dave Winer, going off on a TechCrunch post declaring that Facebook and Twitter are “Killing” RSS.

Now I can’t resist a good old fashioned Twitter duel, especially involving some big names in tech today, so I paused my movie and grabbed some popcorn to watch a different kind of show.

The First Twitter-Fueled Car Race

GotCast and Mercedes-Benz are holding a tweet-fueled race. Win the high score in a social media car race, and win a new Mercedes!

Celebrities Back To Life On Twitter After Getting Some Rich Dude To Foot $550,000

Last week, we reported that a bunch of Hollywood celebrities would “die” on Twitter and social media in an effort to raise money for Keep A Child Alive, a charity benefiting AIDS victims across the world. A week later, we have the results of the campaign.