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The Kindle 2.5 update also adds more useful features, such as the ability to pan and zoom while viewing PDFs, the ability to organize your books in collections, and highlighted passage sharing, which will show you what chunks of text your friends found relevant in their e-books.

Obviously, the Kindle’s display won’t allow for all the features of Facebook and Twitter, but c’mon – do we really need it to?

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That’s incredible for a service that launched about three days ago. For me personally, I find that my friends are taking to Google Buzz like moths to a hi-tech flame – people are “buzzing” up stories and photos, arguing over movies and generally acting like idiots on the internet always do.

I’ve sent out a Google Buzz or two myself, and I’ve noticed that the reactions are much more immediate. This could be due to Google Buzz’s relative shiny-newness, but I think it’s a little deeper – we’re constantly on Gmail. I have virtually no friends who use Yahoo or, god forbid, Hotmail – everyone I know is on Gmail. Everyone I know is also checking their Gmail twenty times a minute.

So what Google’s done is given us one more thing to obsessively check. While waiting for that email from that special someone, why not browse what your friends are “buzzing” about? Makes sense to me. Clever, Google.

Source: Mashable

Image Source: Google

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Some steampunks found a way to use twitter to make them snacks, so break out the #popcorn hashtag, they’re probably getting pretty hungry after building this thing.

Fast forward to about 1:22 for actual footage of the machine and to skip some of the cheesy bits (not the good kind).

Basically, each time the machine’s software spots the #popcorn hashtag, it starts up. A belt turns a screw which moves the unpopped kernels into the hot maw of the popcorn machine.

Tell me when they make a steak-making machine, I’ll get #steak trending all by myself.

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The space shuttle Endeavour takes off today, carrying with it a crew that will deliver and install the Tranquility node to the International Space Station. Also going with them are their Twitter accounts – Astronaut Mike Massimino (@astro_mike) will be accepting tweets down at mission control at the Kennedy Space Station and beaming them up to astronauts, who’ll respond to questions about the mission.

While that may not technically be tweeting from space, don’t worry – last month, astronaut T.J. Creamer – a.k.a. @astro_TJ – sent tweets to followers directly from the internet connection at the International Space Station. On January 22nd at 3:38 PM EST, the first space tweet was sent out. The message?

“We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station—the 1st live tweet from Space!”

See? I told you astro-twitter would be as boring as regular twitter. Why not just tweet what you had for lunch today while you’re at it, guys? It’s as simple as writing “@earth: ate even more food from tubes!”

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It used to be that screaming “I’ve got a bomb” at the airport was the best way to get arrested. Now, thanks to the digital age, all you have to do is Twitter jokes about bombs. Everything’s so much easier now.

In Northern England this week, a frustrated man – delayed at the airport due to snow – was arrested for sending this tweet:

“Crap! Robin Hood airport is closed. You’ve got a week and a bit to get your shit together, otherwise I’m blowing the airport sky high!!”

When police arrested the man, they interrogated him for 7 hours. Apparently, they didn’t think it was a funny line, even with the two exclamation points and the use of Strong Bad’s favorite expletive.

Still, in terms of ridiculous jokes being misconstrued as bomb threats, they do it best on the moon:

…where they tweet about smoking as they shoot the bird.

Source and Photo: Daily Mail

Additional Photo: The Beat

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What follows are actual Tweets that have been sent from Haiti over the past week. This is all pretty incredible stuff:

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Tech words are dominating the English language, according to The American Dialect Society.  They recently announced that the word “google,” as in, “So I googled it and found out my cat shouldn’t be making those noises,” was named the society’s Word of the Decade.  I’m not surprised.  As the internet audience went from enormous to ginormous this decade, Google searching became an important part of our every day lives.  However, I’m sure the people Alta Vista are pissed off that “Alta Vista-ing” didn’t catch on.

Another tech word got high marks from the ADS.  “Tweet” was picked as their top word of 2009.  There’s no doubt that tweeting was a popular word last year, but it seems ironic to give a word award to Twitter.  After all, the whole point of Twitter is to get people to use less words.  Don’t believe me?  Google it.

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