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Twitter News
Twitter Hashtags explained
Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets.

Someone out there explaining things (great blog)
It’s All Geek to Me
helping you figure out the web and social media one post at a time!

bit.ly

Some other Twitter tools:
TweetDeck
TweetMeme

Follow the dizzying count of Tweets per second on this Tweet Counter.

Twitter Outages this Week – did you notice? we’re you stressed?
The Day When Twitter Lost its Tweets

Why Twitter’s new ads are ingenious

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More about cell phones
Cellphone Freedom Act introduced this week

iphone unlocked

Check out this Digital Life Show episode with Alain Berardeau from Computation, a company that recycles e-waste.

Cell phone Chargers standardized in Europe

Nokia unveils bicycle-powered phone charger

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Online Video Editing

YouTube has a new bare bones video editing tool that allows you to clip your videos, and add a soundtrack right in your browser. Keep in mind that the new YouTube Video Editor is still a work in progress, so you might get hit with a few bugs as you try it out.

Other browser-based editors:
Kaltura
Movie Masher
Aviary
Pixorial
JayCut

YouTube Doubler – an online mashup helper

Download youtube videos tool

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Do social media make publication bans useless?

Non-compete clause for Social Networking

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China vows no let-up to state control of Internet

Tor

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Gaming: E3 Roundup

The Electronic Entertainment Expo official site

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MUSIC

Krougnegne | Mory Kante | Touma
Gettin’ Up | Q-Tip | The Renaissance

The Digital Life Show Theme: Glacier | Chris Zippel | Genuine Horizon