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Gawker Media published unauthorized excerpts of Sarah Palin’s new book on its popular blog, until a federal court ordered that Gawker remove the material. Palin’s new book, “America By Heart”, is being released this Tuesday by Harper Collins. Palin personally responded to the leak on Twitter by tweeting, ‘The publishing world is LEAKING out-of-context excerpts Continue Reading →

Chinese Flag A Chinese woman will be imprisoned for retweeting a message on Twitter. The message was clearly satirical and mocked participants of an anti-Japanese rally. The Chinese government, which blocks Twitter, has sentenced Ms. Cheng Jinaping to one year in a labor camp for “disturbing the peace.” Amnesty International believes this situation highlights “the Continue Reading →

Do you think Twitter is just a bunch of noise? Several companies see a lot of value in Twitter, especially in their data. That’s why Twitter has partnered with social data provider Gnip, to sell business customers access to the Twitter firehose. Access to the data feeds gives companies the opportunity to analyze Twitter’s data Continue Reading →

Choose an eBook using the beautiful color touch screen, then watch it appear instantly on the E Ink® display, where text appears as crisp as a printed page. The 16-level gray scale display offers great contrast with no glare or backlight. Choose from five different font sizes so you can read with ease. Click the Continue Reading →

Comcast released its new iPad app on Monday. The app is free for Comcast subscribers and allows users to watch television shows, on-demand content and program their DVRs from their iPads. Comcast plans on releasing a version of the app for the iPhone, iPod touch and Android devices by the end of the year. Read Continue Reading →

The sound of tweets just got much sweeter. Twitter has formed a partnership with Ping, Apple’s new music-oriented social network. Twitter users can now include song previews and links to buy songs on iTunes, directly in their tweets. Steve Jobs would have preferred a deal with Facebook, but will settle for Twitter’s 175 million registered Continue Reading →

Queen Elizabeth II has finally joined Facebook. Like the queen herself, her fan page is quite formal. The queen doesn’t share any  personal information, but does provide information about upcoming engagements and ceremonies the she will be attending. Her majesty already has over 77,000 fans on the site and also has a presence on both Continue Reading →

Google will no longer grant access to user data, like a user’s email contact data, to companies like Facebook unless the sharing of information is reciprocated. While Facebook uses Google’s gmail contact data to suggest friends to users on the site, Facebook does not give Google any data in return. As the rivalry between Google Continue Reading →

Sex.com Sells The domain name sex.com, which is regarded as one of the most valuable domain names in the world, sold for $13 million. The domain name was sold by the bankrupt firm, Escom, who originally purchased the domain for $14 million in 2006. It is unknown what the domain’s new owner, Clover Holdings, has Continue Reading →

Big media companies are interested in investing in social media startups. That’s why corporations like Amazon, Facebook and Comcast have gotten together to form the “sFund”, a $250 million fund for investing in social media startups. Both financing and counseling will be provided to social media entrepreneurs who show promise in the rapidly growing social Continue Reading →