The American Dialect Society, an association that studies the English language announced that late last week that the verb “Google” has been chosen at the top word of the past decade. Other words up for the Word of the Decade include 9/11, blog, green, wi-fi, text and war on terror but it was search giant’s [...]
India’s number one mobile company and the micro-blogging royalty have teamed up to bring “tweets” on India’s mobile phones – even those without wi-fi or data plans. Announced today, the deal between Twitter and Bharti Airtel will allow users to send tweets at standard SMS rates and receive tweets from their followers for free. “There [...]
Yup, you got that right. Popular science fiction writer Neil Gaiman is starting a project with a thousand tweets provided by Twitter users and compiling them to create an audiobook. The first line will be tweeted at midnight EDT Monday and can be found at http://twitter.com/BBCAA. Others who want their tweets to be included can [...]
It seems like there’s a race for placing a trademark on the word “Tweet” and Twitter, the microblogging service that popularized it, isn’t in the first place. In U.S. Patent and Trademark Office documents found by blogger Sam Johnson, the site’s application for a trademark on “tweet” has been preliminarily denied. The application was filed on [...]
