Author: Jamie Welch, Senior Editor

Eager hordes flock to Google's Twitter account

Posted by | Feb 27, 2009 | , |

  Google’s Twitter account attracted 27,176 followers in the less than two full days since its launch Wednesday. That’s nearly one every 5 seconds. Google’s first tweet was characteristically nerdy. “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010.” Translated, first from binary to decimal ASCII codes to letters: “I’m feeling lucky.” Google hasn’t attained the Twitter follower popularity of Barack Obama, with 333,381 as of Friday morning, but it is a remarkably fast ascent. Microsoft’s Live Search Twitter account has 1,536 followers, and Yahoo’s Twitter account has 4,876. Yahoo climbed aboard the Twitter bandwagon two and a half weeks ago....

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Mobui Audience Chat: Socialize while watching TV

Posted by | Feb 26, 2009 | |

If you’re a couch potato, there’s now a way for you to exercise your brain and socialize, a little bit, while watching TV. Mobui, a mobile-application developer that acquired Action Engine awhile back, announced Thursday the launch of Mobui Audience Chat. Basically, this is a mobile app that television broadcasters and studios could utilize to engage audiences’ participation in their shows in real time via their mobile phones. Think of this as how you’ve been voting for an American Idol, only that you now can engage in much more interactive conversations, rather than just send in your vote. Audiences can interact with the show or with one another in different chat rooms.   Full Post...

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