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Don’t Put a Flight Attendant Between Alec Baldwin and Words With Friends

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on December 6, 2011 at 4:32 pm PT

Actor Alec Baldwin loves Zynga’s hit game Words With Friends, but right now he’s not too crazy about American Airlines, which he says booted him off a flight for playing while sitting at the gate.

Twitter Lets You Look Over Your Friends’ Shoulders, in Real Time

Liz Gannes in Social on August 10, 2011 at 2:38 pm PT

Twitter today started rolling out features to help shed light on the way tweeted content is received by other users. Two new tabs on Twitter’s Web site show users when their own tweets or tweets from the people they follow are favorited or retweeted.

What Martha Saw: #D9 Tweets From the Eyes of the Audience

Drake Martinet in D9 on June 7, 2011 at 5:25 pm PT

We’ve compiled the story of our recent D9 conference, 140 characters at a time. It’s full of pictures (the behind the scenes kind) and links to videos. And even the inimitable @MarthaStewart makes an appearance or two.

25 Million iPads, 14 Billion Apps: WWDC 2011 by the Numbers

John Paczkowski in News on June 7, 2011 at 12:04 am PT

There were lots of numbers showcased in Apple’s WWDC keynote Monday morning–big, big numbers.

Twitter Numbers: Cool, But How Many Users Does It Actually Have?

Liz Gannes in Social on March 14, 2011 at 1:26 pm PT

Twitter has put up some impressive numbers in its five years, but it still doesn’t disclose a standard stat for any Web service: How many users it has.

A Digital “Magazine” With One Subscriber

Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on March 8, 2011 at 9:05 pm PT

A new iPad app called Zite makes the news-gathering process a lot easier. The app crawls over half a million Web domains to find specific reading material that would be of interest to users, according to their social network and online reading behavior.

Twitter's Ads: Here's What Works

Amir Efrati, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 2, 2011 at 12:00 am PT

More than 100 small and mid-sized businesses are paying to post ads on Twitter, the site where users broadcast messages called tweets, in 140 words or less. The advertisers are using the service to target consumers who are interested in real-time information about events, such as the Academy Awards show, or those who follow the moves of particular organizations or people.

Will Secretary of State Clinton's "Internet Freedom Agenda" Finally Get Traction?

Kara Swisher in News on February 16, 2011 at 7:09 am PT

Yesterday, in a major policy speech in Washington, D.C., Secretary of State Hillary Clinton jumped on the Internet bandwagon again, unveiling a $25 million government investment for entrepreneurs to allow dissidents to thwart “thugs, hackers and censors.” Since that’s about the amount a third-string social photo-sharing site gets while walking down University Avenue in Palo Alto, Calif., from venture capitalists with bags of money to spend, let me just say the money is, well, underwhelming. Clinton’s speech, thankfully, was much better.

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Says Company Needs to Unify Its Experience Across Devices

Ina Fried in Mobile on February 14, 2011 at 8:28 am PT

In addition, Costolo announced the company will offer crowdsourced translations of the service into Russian, Turkish and Indonesian. Also doing own translation to Portuguese later this year.