Twitter Japan will charge users to access premium tweets
In a recent development, Twitter has come forward with a brand new revenue model. Every bit of news about Twitter is big news by default these days but this one is slightly bigger. We have been hearing co-founder Biz Stone and CE Evan Williams talking about charging premium users. But this development was unexpected, at least for now. Honey! Its all about Money (img src: tradebit.com) Twitter is actually going

Japanese Gamer marries digital girlfriend
Every day the web continues to throw surprises our way. I was pleasantly shocked while read the news about a Japanese Gamer marring his Nitendo girlfriend, and I thought I should share it with you. Marriage is an emotional bond that society approves. In this case, though some might grumble, there has been a social/legal approval and a very deep emotional bond. Hence a marriage. The Digital Bride (img src: telegraph.co.uk) The Bride known by the name sal9000 in the gaming world, fell in l

Is Wikipedia Going Down? Editors deserting Encyclopedia
There have been reports about editors leaving the widely popular community edited encyclopedia site Wikipedia. According to a university study 49,000 editors left the site in the first quarter of 2009. Compared to the first quarter of 2008 that is a 10 fold increase. Only 4,900 people felt like leaving Wikipedia last year. So, is Wikipedia going to die? No, says Wikimedia UK, a chapter of the organization that operates Wikipedia. According to spokesperson Michael Peel “We’re trying to eng

The future of gaming : Social Media
Social Media has changed the world of computer gaming drastically. In the past few days we have witnessed a stupendous applause for social game creators. Zynga was valued at one billion dollars and console gaming giants EA Sports bagged PlayFish for $300 million. A Russian Social Strategy Game maker  

Facebook threatens legal action against sites involved in follower trade
Facebook has made it clear that trading in its users is a violation of its rights and there will be legal action against the violators. Hot in Facebook scanner is uSocial, a site that lets it customers buy Facebook Friends and Twitter followers in blocks. After receiving a Cease and Desist letter from Facebook, uSocial made some drastic changes to its operating practices. Now there is a “we are in no way affiliated with Twitter or Facebook.” declaration in the site-wide footer. Though we hear that they might have to terminate their Facebook User gathering service, all w