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How many of your Twitter followers understand Klingon? You can soon find out, by using this helpful Twitter app which translates tweets into that language spoken by the fictional warrior race in Star Trek. It's called http://tweetinklingon.com/ Great. Or "Dun"...  

Alright. I understand the prohibition on not taking photos of presenters' data. However, prohibiting Twittering? Use of cameras and all other recording devices (this includes digital, film, and cell phone cameras, as well as audio recordings) are strictly prohibited in all session rooms, in the Exhibit Hall, and in all poster and oral presentation sessions. Twittering (see above) and other forms of communication involving replication of data...  

So, how did Mike Bloomberg's recent NYC mayoral campaign score all those Twitter followers? Well, he may have gotten some help from Sponsored Tweets, the pay-per-tweet service from IZEA, the company that brought us PayPerPost and SocialSpark. I spoke with IZEA CEO Ted Murphy, this afternoon, and asked whether any political advertisers have used any of the company's services, including its 3-month-old Sponsored Tweets service. Well, it turns...  

23:55 wa'Dich! #klingon (translate: bit.ly/50yybT) # 23:55 luq, I'm ta'pu' DaH. #klingon (translate: bit.ly/7970vv) # 00:50 loD. #klingon (translate: bit.ly/6IIffP) # 00:53 RT @@kirabug: Wondering if NBC will have to wait at home for Comcast to show up sometime between 8am & 6pm to get their management installed # 17:51 Hey, what's the really good Windows (7, technically) app for Twitter? # 18:13 Right. @tweetdeck it is, at least for the...  

18:13 Lese gerade: Wieder einmal appelliert xy an die niedrigen Instinkte ... sind das die elementaren, gehobenen oder verschobenen Bedürfnisse? # 18:20 Microsoft drops idea to pay newspaper owners and other publishers for removing their content from Google Surprise! Haha bit.ly/7RxQEl # 00:06 "Electronic Book Burning" - Alan Kaufmans Polemik gegen E-Books & Digitalisierung" bit.ly/6gGz8M via @steffenmeier # 00:21 RT @JohnMNBarnes: RT...  

Twitter was just the beginning. After dreaming up the innovative social-networking medium, Jack Dorsey is looking to revolutionize another core aspect of society: money.Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, has announced that his new start-up, Square, has developed a way for anyone with a cellphone or iPod to become a merchant and accept credit card payments.Square is a small plastic device that plugs into a gadget's headphone jack. Buyers swipe...  

Desktop Twitter client Tweetdeck has pushed out a new update that includes native support for Twitter’s official Lists feature and the newly released Retweet function. You’ll also now find geo-location baked right in and LinkedIn has joined the myriad social networks it can now post to. Tweetdeck has long supported groups as a way to manage Related posts:Twitter begins Project Retweet roll-outTwitter launches Lists widgetTwitter set to launch...  

Iain Dodsworth has released the latest version of his Adobe AIR-based Twitter client, TweetDeck. Changes included integration with LinkedIn accounts, the capability to geotag tweets with your location, the option to choose between Twitter's new style for retweets and the old style, and an improved interface featuring a new Add Column screen. Also, support for Twitter's new list feature (see "Twitter Adds Lists, Finally," 30 October 2009) has...  

Like Ashton Kutcher before him, Wizards star and goofball Gilbert Arenas (aka Agent Zero) has taken up the quest get to one million followers on Twitter. But Arenas's plan is different: he wants to get it done while not tweeting at all. Arenas has promised not to use the account until he gets to the one million mark. Currently he's got about 5,000 followers, so there's a long way to go. You can sign up to follow him at @gilbertarenas. The...  

What Twitter client do you use? TweetDeck is a favorite of many people who use Twitter for professional purposes. I've been an enthusiastic user of Tweetie for the Mac since it came out more than seven months ago, because I love its powerful, simple, and easy-to-use interface. However, TweetDeck now supports Twitter features that Tweetie doesn't, so I figured I'd give TweetDeck another try. And I'm liking it. InformationWeek's RSS...  

A few minutes ago, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey tweeted about his new company: Square - a new way to accept payments. Checkout his tweets, the new Square twitter tweets and the new Square website. More information about Square is in this TechCrunch article including a video demonstration and an interview with Dorsey..  

Demi Moore might increasingly be referred to as "Mrs. Ashton Kutcher." It's not just that the iconic star is getting long in the tooth and old-line Hollywood is a fading business. It's that Ashton Kutcher has seen the present and...  

Love it or hate it, Twitter's new retweets are here to stay and while major players like Tweetdeck, Tweetie and Seesmic Desktop are getting their app together, the little known Echofon has already neatly incorporated retweets to make ...  

At this point, Twitter may not gain much from the backing of any more "celebrity" members; we've already seen lots of politicians, media personalities, and Hollywood types join up. Just the same, it seems noteworthy that Google's CEO, ...  

Social Sunday, Twitter David Fuelling is executive director of The 3for5 Foundation, a non-profit, social-fundraising campaign that promotes clean water, sanitation facilities, and hygiene education. The idea? ...