Perhaps most important, the Fox News Channel now has new bragging rights on Madison Avenue, where its news status could help it raise its advertising rates, which have generally lagged those of CNN.
Each user has a personal profile which includes basic information about them and a "wall" where they can post news ("status updates") and where their friends can leave public messages ("posts").
What it does is help developers make applications location-aware by identifying places in unstructured and atomic content (think RSS feeds, web pages, news, status updates etc.) and returning geographic metadata for geographic indexing and markup.
Faced with stagnating user growth, Twitter under new CEO Dorsey has long been grappling with the best way to evolve its business — namely, how to make its real-time stream of news, status updates from your Twitter connections, videos and other content more appealing to a mass-market audience.
But there's already the option of commenting on rather than liking bad news statuses – so if someone posts that they're ill, for example, you can write "get well soon" instead of risking looking like you're happy about their condition.
Crowdsourced vetting would open up the assessment process to the body politic, having people apply for a sort of "verified news checker" status and then allowing them to rank news as they see it.
"Thus, while I think it's not news that status differences and subsistence specialisms date to the Neolithic, this is perhaps the first time we've been able to show that inheritance was a large part of this".
Twitter is a great resource for information, useful links, breaking news and status messages from your friends or companies you're interested in.
It culls local data from 30,000 blogs and news feeds; status updates from Twitter, Foursquare, Gowalla, Google Buzz, and BrightKite (but not Facebook); geo-tagged photos from Flickr, Smugmug, and Picassa; local deals from Groupon, LivingSocial, and MobileSpinach; evets from Eventbrite, Eventful, Zvents, Stubhub, Ticketmaster, and Upcoming; reviews from Yelp, Citysearch, OpenTable, Yahoo!
This will allow visitors who land on your church's main website to subscribe to your news and status updates if they are also members of Facebook.
They're not killing communications all together, however �� they're just making the jump from bloggers to hard hitting news, replacing the Status blog with a MobileMe News page.
