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Newspapers are not selling paid tweets yet but publishers want to cash in on Twitter like Kim Kardashian and other celebs who get paid to endorse brands.

A blender that makes smoothies based on fruits trending on Twitter. I think things like this could help publishers think outside the box.Similar to authors who write chapter by chapter and then based on reader comments, continue and develop the story. Digital influence in realtime.

Twitter to leverage advertising "Special Deals" with "Promotional Tweets"

Tapping into teen trends--vampires and the push towards interactivity--novelists Laura Moser and Lauren Mechling have launched a YA serial on Slate.com with a parallel online world where their characters update their Facebook pages, tweet, and post videos on YouTube.

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Hmm. This is British and talks about a primarily British (that I can tell) service marrying itself to Facebook, but it has interesting implications should others decide to adopt the same thing. "'There's been a big barrier to sign-up, we wanted to remove that and make it a seamless experience,' [Daniel Ek, Spotify co-founder] said in one tweet, apparently indifferent to the criticism that Spotify had just erected a barrier where there wasn't one before." "'We want to remove barrier to sign-up and create a more seamless experience...' he confirmed in a follow-up." Yep, it'll be completely seamless for the advertisers who want to target Spotify users, they can get all sorts of other info on them besides just that they downloaded Rebecca Black's "Friday"...Zuckerberg must be laughing all the way to the bank.

Received notice of this page via Tim O'Reilly's tweet. He says: ""Very cool: Journal of Visualized Science Experiments. A multimedia re-visioning of the science journal."

Also from Tim O'Reilly tweet.

Citizens took to the digital streets today to celebrate what has become known as "Internet Freedom Day." The new holiday celebrates users' ability to speak, share, create, and innovate. It commemorates the Internet blackout of Jan. 18, 2012, in which tens of thousands of websites participated, to protest the draconian copyright bills SOPA and PIPA.

A group of researchers have proven something we already expected to be the case: your Twitter follower count is somewhat of a meaningless metric when it comes to ...

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