A blogger is being sued by the blog he used to write for because they claim his Twitter followers belong to them. PhoneDog is suing former blogger Noah Kravitz for $350,000 (that’s $2.50 per follower per month for 8 months) because they say his 17,000 followers amounts to their customer list, and they want it more »

If you are not as familiar with Posterous (or not carrying an iPhone) this may not be as exciting of news for you, however the simple to setup and simple to use blogging site Posterous has released an iOS app for the iPhone and iPod touch. Sadly though, it was not a universal app with more »

Maybe they should just start calling it “TwitBook” because Facebook sure seems to be trying to adapt their interface to everything Twitter. Their latest redesign sees them making some changes to their Publisher tool (this used to be the status update box). Now, users can choose just how public (or private) they want their shared content to be. “Public” as in everyone — you don’t even have to be friends.

There actually still seems to be some confusion as to how public “Everyone” really is. Facebook doesn’t clarify the term on their blog. Some people are stating it means your content will actually be Google-able, others say it probably means just searchable within Facebook. You can also choose to feed your updates to friends, friends of friends, networks, or just certain friends.

Has Twitter finally found it revenue source? Bowing to pressure from the US State Department, Twitter put off some downtime in efforts to keep their conduit open for news that is flowing out of Iran. The recent Iranian election results have put the people in the streets demonstrating for what they believe is a fraudulent more »

A lot of us use Twitter. But when you want to post images, videos, and audio, you might want to move to something like Tumblr. It’s an extremely easy blogging solution. But, who’s behind Tumblr? Get to know Marco Arment in this edition of “5 Questions.” He put together much of Tumblr. Would a Tumblr guy use Facebook? His answer may surprise you.

Having recently reviewed the Amazon Kindle 2, I thought I’d explore some alternate uses for the e-reader. Let’s face it, if the Kindle can do more for you than just being an e-reader, the price is a little more bearable. The first alternate use I explored was blogging.

To begin, I did a quick search for online word processors, but the first few I came upon did not work on the Kindle’s web browser. Out of desperation, I succumbed to writing the post as an e-mail to myself in GMail. To conserve the Kindle’s battery I turned off the wireless once I had the GMail compose box up. I was ready to write.

It is an interesting state of affairs when we bloggers, in our never-ending thirst for more are sifting through job listings to get a lead on what a company is thinking. Forget high priced PR mouthpieces, simply post a free job posting somewhere and one of my cohorts will pick it up within the hour. more »

#googlefail. If you’re on Twitter, you’re probably familiar with this tag. In a nutshell, it describes what is possibly Google’s worst week. Read on to find out what happened to one of the web’s most popular service providers. Hint: there was a lot of chaos.

Up until now, the Kindle has only had a few blogs amongst other content for sale. Now, Amazon has a new beta program called “Kindle Publishing for Blogs Beta” that lets anyone publish their blog in the Kindle Store. We’ve got a photo gallery to show you a walk through of setting up your own more »

Oh, is Twitter making the news as of late. And the latest is really not for a positive reason. If you, like many, are a Twitter user, you better be careful since it was just found out that they are vulnerable to a major cross-site scripting (XSS) hack vulnerability which could let someone in the hijack someone’s account. When the hacker does this, they could also use other exploit code to have a have a hey-day on the users computer.

Click a link, get pwned

Secure Science researchers Lance James and Eric Wastl posted evidence of this proof-of-concept exploit code. Although they did notify Twitter, they say they have yet to receive a response back. On the page offering proof-of-concept, there is a link where Twitter users can choose whether they want to be exploited or not. (I can see everyone yelling “pick me! pick me!”) If you do happen to click the decide exploitation is your thing, and click the button, you will then kick start the exploit. A posted message will show up saying “I just got owned!” on the Twitter XSSExploits account.

Wastl says that “The vulnerability is still active. Basically, we produce a link and if a Twitter user clicks on it, it allows us to hijack their accounts.”