Twitter

A recent phenomenon of the social web – aside from your parents commenting on drunk pictures of you on Facebook – is the smattering of buttons now adorning every website, from Justin Bieber fansites to CNN. These buttons allow you to share the information on the page with your friends or followers on the likes on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or any number of link aggregators.

While all manner of cool new hardware is shown off in Taipei at Computex 2011, the Silicon Valley rumour mill keeps churning. This week’s choice titbit is that eponymous social network Twitter is due to launch its own photo upload and sharing service imminently, potentially when CEO Dick Costolo takes the stage at the D9 conference on Wednesday.

Although we first heard about it a few weeks ago, today Twitter has gone official with their purchase of UK-based Tweetdeck, makers of the popular desktop social media client of the same name. The papers were finally signed yesterday, with Twitter reportedly paying between $40 million and $50 million in cash and stock.

The ongoing row in the United Kingdom over celebrity superinjunctions has taken a turn for the strange, as Twitter users have used the social platform to blurt out the details that aforementioned celebrities paid so dearly to protect.

If you’re a frequent users of Twitter, earlier this week you may have seen a couple of pictures of the shuttle launch doing the rounds from one Stefanie Gordon. She snapped the photos on her iPhone while on a Delta flight which just so happened to be passing by the Florida launch site. The pictures quickly went viral and have notched up around 650,000 views between them at the time of writing.

DoCoMo | May 13, 2011 | Press Release TOKYO, JAPAN, May 13, 2011 — NTT DOCOMO, INC. today announced that it has reached an agreement with Twitter, Inc. under which DOCOMO will leverage …

Apple’s reclusive CEO Steve Jobs, while usually just as mysterious as the company he runs, occasionally grants the general populous an insight into his thoughts and feelings via personal replies to emails sent to his publicly-available email address ([email protected], if you want to try your luck).

Mobile broadband is critical in a time of disaster according to Norwegian browser maker Opera which claims Japanese usage of its software skyrocketed in the days following the earthquake. Last …

Mobile broadband is critical in a time of disaster according to Norwegian browser maker Opera which claims Japanese usage of its software skyrocketed in the days following the earthquake. Last …

A few months ago it was reported that social media software conglomerate UberMedia were in talks to buy UK-based Tweetdeck for $30 million. This would be a significant move by the group, as it would mean the combined reach of all their clients would be over a third of all Twitter users.

Walmart may be trying to get into your pocket – through social media that is – after purchasing silicon valley based Kosmix for an undisclosed sum, according to Reuters. The …

Jews across the globe will be starting the celebration of passover tonight, as they have done for the last couple of thousand years. But why is this year different from other years? Well, it has a really superbly made video telling the entire passover story with a slightly modern mobile twist.

Wall Street Journal | April 13, 2011 | Yoree Koh This much is clear: Masayoshi Son has been an angry man these past few days. While Japan’s richest man has recently used …

Yonhap News Agency | April 11, 2011 | Lee Youkyung SEOUL, April 11 (Yonhap) — Kakao Corp., the developer of the fastest growing mobile messenger service in South Korea, said …

Eye-Fi Inc., makers of memory cards with built-in Wi-Fi capabilities, is introducing “direct mode,” which allows the transfer of photos from a camera with an Eye-Fi card for a direct …

Twitter has won a battle with the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to the effect that the firm will now be exempt from a 1.5 percent payroll tax for the …

I’ve been fairly critical of Rupert Murdoch’s new digital newspaper The Daily, both over the ludicrously large investment News Corp. has made in the property, and the subsequent missteps in terms of social integration and target market.