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Tear gas and Twitter: Protest goes online

Iranian protesters have found a new outlet to mobilize and take action. The presidential election has proved how much opposition supporters can demand change without necessarily taking to the streets.

 

Troops Now Allowed to Use Social Networking Sites

American soldiers can now tweet, send friend requests and share photos and personal news just like the rest of the World Wide Web.

 

Facebook Vanity URLs Go Live Friday Night

Facebook Vanity URLs Go Live Friday Night

What are you doing Friday night? The social networking faithful will be waiting excitedly in front of a laptop in order to capture the Facebook "vanity URL" of their choice when the clock strikes twelve.

 

Twitter's Dilemma

Has the popular microblogging service become a victim of its own success?

 

SF Cops Crack Down on Twittering Street Food Vendors

SF Cops Crack Down on Twittering Street Food Vendors

In San Francisco's Mission district, the underground street-food scene is hot with traveling vendors like the "Crème Brulee Guy" and "Sexy Soup Lady" popping up at a twitter-message's notice.

 

Armstrong announces birth of son on Twitter

This was one special tweet for Lance Armstrong.

 

Tony La Russa Sues Twitter Over Alleged Fake Page

Tony La Russa Sues Twitter Over Alleged Fake Page

St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa is suing the social-networking site Twitter, claiming an unauthorized page that used his name to make light of drunken driving and two Cardinals pitchers who died damaged his reputation and caused emotional distress.

The suit filed last month in the Superior Court of California in San Francisco seeks unspecified damages.
Messages left Thursday with La Russa's attorney and San Francisco-based Twitter were not returned.

 

New Feature: Search

You may have noticed a search bar at the top the page. It's brand spanking new. It searches the top newspaper sites (CNN, NY Times), aggregation sites (Google News, Digg), blog search sites (Twitter, Technorati), and video sites (YouTube, Hulu) for any news topic and lays them out like a newspaper rack. Now, you can instantly get the latest news and buzz on any news topic. Here are some examples:

Barack Obama
http://www.wopular.com/newsracks/barack+obama

Air France
http://www.wopular.com/newsracks/air+france

The Tonight Show
http://www.wopular.com/newsracks/tonight+show

 

Digg's new ads put advertisers on the front page

On Wednesday Digg unveiled a new ad platform that will give companies an ad medium that looks and feels like user-submitted stories which have been promoted to Digg's front page.

 

MySpace Offers Rock and Jazz Classics

MySpace is luring in older users with free streaming music from Lionel Richie, Neil Young, The Cure and many others..

 

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