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Please add updates@feedmyinbox.com to your address book to make sure you receive these messages in the future. TechChuck » Twitter - Technology stories from all around the web! Did Twitter Just Quietly Start Twitter Connect? If Not, It Should. April 17, 2009 at 8:37 pm Yesterday, on it Twitter API Wiki, Twitter quietly unveiled a "Sign in with Twitter" feature. It's a very simple idea: It gives you the option to use your Twitter ID as your login for third party services. But what's more interesting is what Twitter could do with this. Basically, this could be the first step at launching a "Twitter Connect" of sorts, the same type of platform that Facebook is building with Facebook Connect and Google is building with Friend Connect. Feedly Mini Learns How to Search A Better Calling Card: Twitter Challenges Facebook Connect How A Google-Twitter Partnership Would Work Feedly Mini Learns How to Search April 17, 2009 at 8:32 pm The social news utility Feedly announced on its blog that it just added the ability to perform a supplemental search on content it knows about on any of a number of different sites like Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Wikipedia, Amazon and more. Results from this parallel search appear in Feedly Mini, an unobtrusive pop-up notification area in the lower-right corner of the Firefox browser window. Search results are drawn from FriendFeed, Google Reader feeds and other sources. A New Business Model For Skype: Turning Phone Numbers On The Web Into Paid Ads Naughty Workers, Spam Pollutes, Skype Spin off Virginia Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Counterfeit Software Metered Broadband, Twitter Worm, Pirate Bay and More on PC World Podcast Episode 25 April 17, 2009 at 8:31 pm This week, Tim Moynhan and Robert Strohmeyer co-host the 25th edition of the PC World Podcast. Editors Denny Arar and Darren Gladstone contribute to the discussion about Time Warner's metered broardband plan, the Twitter Worm, Ashton Kutcher's Twitter war with CNN, the Gadget of the Week, as well as the verdict of the Pirate Bay trial. Twitter worm author gets security job Pirate Bay founders found guilty Pirate Bay co-founder claims 'we lost' A Better Calling Card: Twitter Challenges Facebook Connect April 17, 2009 at 7:15 pm In the old days, self-important people use to carry calling cards. Now we have Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites to turn us all into mini-celebrities. So what's the new calling card online? That position's being jockeyed for as we speak, and different contenders are taking very different approaches. Did Twitter Just Quietly Start Twitter Connect? If Not, It Should. Feedly Mini Learns How to Search How A Google-Twitter Partnership Would Work Another Contender Emerges: Posterous Takes On TwitPic With New API April 17, 2009 at 6:10 pm The race is on to become the dominant media sharing site on Twitter, with favorites like TwitPic and newcomers including PhotoBucket's TwitGoo vying for popularity as Twitter begins to hit the mainstream. Now Posterous is looking to join the race with a new API that developers can integrate into their Twitter apps with a minimal amount of effort. Did Twitter Just Quietly Start Twitter Connect? If Not, It Should. Feedly Mini Learns How to Search Metered Broadband, Twitter Worm, Pirate Bay and More on PC World Podcast Episode 25 The Un-Cooling of Twitter April 17, 2009 at 5:58 pm While everyone has been wringing their hands about the increasing number of spammers on Twitter, a small group of upstarts quietly began assembling while our heads were turned. It began with Shaq and Jon Mayer, then Britney and Miley popped up. Before anyone could stop it Ashton Kutcher was challenging Larry King to a digital duel and soon all of Hollywood was getting involved. Things have come to a head today, ladies and gentlemen. Oprah is in the house. Ashton Kutcher and Evan Williams Talk Twitter With Oprah Twitter's Big Day: Oprah Winfrey and Ashton Kutcher Bring Twitter to the Mainstream 94 Percent of CNN's Audience Doesn't Use Twitter Twitter Worm-Writer Gets a Gig April 17, 2009 at 5:48 pm An Oregon-based Web application developer Friday confirmed he has hired the teenager who admitted attacking Twitter with several different worms last weekend. Travis Rowland, of Hammond Ore. said that he had offered a job to Michael "Mikeyy" Mooney, a 17-year-old who said last week he had written at least two of the worms that struck Twitter starting on April 11. Did Twitter Just Quietly Start Twitter Connect? If Not, It Should. Feedly Mini Learns How to Search Metered Broadband, Twitter Worm, Pirate Bay and More on PC World Podcast Episode 25 Oprah, Ashton Kutcher mark Twitter 'turning point' April 17, 2009 at 5:15 pm Ashton Kutcher fans pass out fliers supporting his Twitter page outside CNN's Los Angeles bureau Thursday. Some bloggers and Twitter users have expressed concern that the once-cultish site is being overwhelmed by celebrities and media hype, while others are excited by Twitter's ever-growing reach. "It's a big milestone. This brings Twitter mainstream," said Andrew Cherwenka, a Huffington Post contributor and Web developer at Trapeze.com, referring to Kutcher and Winfrey's Twitter breakthroughs. Metered Broadband, Twitter Worm, Pirate Bay and More on PC World Podcast Episode 25 The Un-Cooling of Twitter Ashton Kutcher and Evan Williams Talk Twitter With Oprah Polaroid Camera Scraps Snapped Up For $88 Million April 17, 2009 at 4:45 pm Polaroid has a new owner: Private equity firm Knight's Bridge Capital Partners and partners have bought the rights to the iconic instant camera company for $87.6 million. Knight's Bridge's partners include Hilco Consumer Capital and Gordon Brothers Brands. StockTwits cofounder (and SAI investor) Howard Lindzon is a partner at Knight's Bridge, and he's already taking suggestions on Twitter. "i just had a sweet polaroid momemt. BTW - send me your licensing ideas as we will not be operating the company and looking for partners." Susan Boyle: The Most Viral Video Of All Time? Blu-Ray Sales Way, Way Up AOL 'Daily Finance' iPhone App Looks Good Ashton Kutcher and Evan Williams Talk Twitter With Oprah April 17, 2009 at 4:40 pm As expected, Twitter CEO Evan Williams and actor Ashton Kutcher – the first TwitterTwitter reviews user to accumulate one million followers – appeared on Oprah this afternoon, bringing the microblogging tool into the spotlight for millions of viewers, many of who probably haven't used the service before. Metered Broadband, Twitter Worm, Pirate Bay and More on PC World Podcast Episode 25 The Un-Cooling of Twitter 94 Percent of CNN's Audience Doesn't Use Twitter Twitter's Big Day: Oprah Winfrey and Ashton Kutcher Bring Twitter to the Mainstream April 17, 2009 at 3:58 pm Twitter has gone mainstream. Late last night, Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk) became the first Twitter user with more than 1 million followers. Today, media mogul Oprah Winfrey sent out her first tweet and will dedicate a full episode of her talk show to Twitter. Metered Broadband, Twitter Worm, Pirate Bay and More on PC World Podcast Episode 25 The Un-Cooling of Twitter Oprah, Ashton Kutcher mark Twitter 'turning point' Twitter Working On A New Tweet Feed, Testing It With FriendFeed April 17, 2009 at 2:28 pm If you've been a user of FriendFeed for the past few months, you've probably noticed how slow the importing of tweets has been. But something changed a couple days ago - tweets started showing up almost instaneously in feeds, after they were posted on Twitter. That's because FriendFeed is testing a new type of backend feed that Twitter is developing. Twitter worm author gets security job I Can't Believe I Am Now Following Ashton Kutcher on Twitter (Because CNN Just Cannot Win) Stop the tweet spam! Two ways to filter Twitter into Facebook 94 Percent of CNN's Audience Doesn't Use Twitter April 17, 2009 at 12:18 pm While today might be a huge day in TwitterTwitter reviews world with CEO Evan Williams set to appear on Oprah alongside Twitter's first million follower man, Ashton Kutcher, CNN's audience apparently still largely has no idea what the service is all about. Metered Broadband, Twitter Worm, Pirate Bay and More on PC World Podcast Episode 25 The Un-Cooling of Twitter Oprah, Ashton Kutcher mark Twitter 'turning point' Twitter worm author gets security job April 17, 2009 at 11:52 am The self-confessed author of the recent Twitter worm has scored a potentially lucrative job doing security analysis and web development work. Michael "Mikeyy" Mooney, a 17 year-old student from Brooklyn, New York, created a worm that exploited cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in a ham-fisted attempt to promote a site he ran, called StalkDaily. The worm created thousands of automated tweets and spawned a number of copy-cat attacks. Did Twitter Just Quietly Start Twitter Connect? If Not, It Should. Metered Broadband, Twitter Worm, Pirate Bay and More on PC World Podcast Episode 25 Twitter Worm Woes Continue, Fourth Round Of Attacks By Mickeyy My Name Is E potentially cracks the e-cards conundrum April 17, 2009 at 11:35 am The Next Web conference in Amsterdam just announced the winner of their startup competition. The judges were unanimous in naming My Name is E, and the startup got the audience vote as well. Did Twitter Just Quietly Start Twitter Connect? If Not, It Should. Feedly Mini Learns How to Search Metered Broadband, Twitter Worm, Pirate Bay and More on PC World Podcast Episode 25 Twitter Spam Already Annoying Some Users April 17, 2009 at 10:50 am Twitter's fast-growing user base means it's increasingly attractive to spammers. That's something Twitter will make sure doesn't get out of hand. We got a lot of spam messages every day via email, some on instant-messaging clients, and a few on Facebook too. And while we generally welcome unsolicited messages on Twitter -- any tweet including @ekrangel will cross my radar -- we haven't seen too much abuse of the feature yet. Twitter's Big Day: Oprah Winfrey and Ashton Kutcher Bring Twitter to the Mainstream Twitter Working On A New Tweet Feed, Testing It With FriendFeed 94 Percent of CNN's Audience Doesn't Use Twitter Will Kutcher Butcher Twitter? April 17, 2009 at 10:07 am Ashton Kutcher beat out CNN to create the largest to-date Twitter following of 1 million subscribers. That means at least 1 million people actually care what Ashton Kutcher is doing at any moment. The battle finished at 2:13 this morning with a victory from Kutcher. This means that the 1 millionth follower will be featured in The Sims 3 and receive a copy of every game produced by Electronic Arts in 2009. Also, Kutcher will donate money to buy 10,000 anti-mosquito bed nets for African families to help fight the spread of malaria on that continent. CNN stopped reporting news for a few seconds and congratulated Kutcher on its feed. Celebrities Take Over Twitter, Kick Geeks Aside Ashton Kutcher Hits 1 Million Twitter Followers Kutcher Plays His Pied Piper Flute And Gets A Million Twitter Followers Google CEO Schmidt Talks Up Twitter Search Deal April 17, 2009 at 8:41 am During yesterday's earnings call, Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt talked up the benefits of a search deal with Twitter: "Without commenting specifically about Twitter ... you could imagine that ... it could be a channel for product information, marketing information, real-time information for which you can hang advertising products, whether it’s a text ad or a video ad or so forth off of it ... It strikes me that’s a logical strategy for them to pursue and something that we would be very happy to pursue with them and all other players in that space.” What Twitter Really Wants From Google Variety Finally Reports Exciting Development In Microsoft-Yahoo Takeover Battle Twitter Using Google To Take Microsoft To Cleaners On Search Ad Deal How A Google-Twitter Partnership Would Work April 17, 2009 at 7:31 am Google's offline video ads now work online, too [PaidContent] Eric Schmidt explains how Google and Twitter could work together [PaidContent] The Baltimore Sun's lawyers tell blogger to stop using more than a paragraph in posts [Epicenter] Time Warner shelves plan to charge customers for the amount of broadband bandwidth they use [Reuters] Yahoo's Bartz isn't going to sell the company -- or search [Barron's] Parade publications gets a CEO [NYT] Google CEO Schmidt Talks Up Twitter Search Deal As sales execs defect, is this the end of an era for Google? Google money machine records Q1 choking sound Celebrities Take Over Twitter, Kick Geeks Aside April 17, 2009 at 7:00 am As Twitter grows up, one of the best examples of its becoming mainstream is how widely and quickly real-life celebrities have latched onto the service, pushing Twitter's early heroes -- Internet-famous-types and tech journalists -- aside. Consider the differences in the most popular Twitter users today and just three months ago. This time in January, Twitter's two most famous human users were Robert Scoble, a tech blogger best known for his years at Microsoft; and iJustine, a cute girl in her mid-20s famous for strapping a Web cam to her head and fawning over Apple gadgets. According to a Web cache of Twitterholic, a Twitter user-tracking service, Scoble had 6,900 followers on Jan. 18 and iJustine had 6,700. Will Kutcher Butcher Twitter? Ashton Kutcher Hits 1 Million Twitter Followers Kutcher Plays His Pied Piper Flute And Gets A Million Twitter Followers Pirate Bay founders found guilty April 17, 2009 at 6:25 am Gottfrid Svartholm Warg and Peter Sunde at Stockholm district court before the verdict A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case. Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde were found guilty of breaking copyright law and were sentenced to a year in jail. Pirate Bay guilty verdict: Now what? Pirate Bay trial comes to a close; four defendants found guilty Pirate Bay fans: Lay off our neo-Nazi Sugar Daddy Pirate Bay co-founder claims 'we lost' April 17, 2009 at 4:48 am The Pirate Bay has lost the trial against the entertainment industry according to co-founder Peter Sunde, who cites a "trustworthy source". Sunde, also known as BrokeP, said he was given "leaked information" last night. "Stay calm – nothing will happen to TPB, us personally or file sharing what so ever. This is just a theatre for the media," he claimed. Pirate Bay guilty verdict: Now what? Pirate Bay trial comes to a close; four defendants found guilty The Pirate Bay founders sentenced to prison, website soldiers on   This email was sent to arildinho13@gmail.com.  Create Your Account Don't want to receive this feed any longer? Unsubscribe here.