Happy New Year Don’t Tweet, Drink and Drive Tis the season (or day) that most of us go out to celebrate the New Year with friends, family and in many cases a few drinks. Police, of course, have known this for ages and set up checkpoints to find those who decide to put their (and other people) lives in danger. According to research these...

QuickByte: Ohio DOT Embraces Twitter The Ohio Department of Transportation decided to take another precaution this winter in hopes of dwindling down the 44,000 plus accidents it suffered last year – as a result of serve winter weather conditions. The DOT will now offer winter advisory, Twitter updates for the highways in Cincinnati,...

QuickByte: Scientists now use Twitter to Track Earthquakes? The U.S. Geological Survey have come up with a new way to track earthquakes via tweets. Normally Scientists have the tedious task of sorting through large quantities of data through recording stations, prior to finding out where exactly an earthquake has struck. Now Scientists can use filtering software...

Quick Byte: New News for iPhone and Android users Google announced yesterday that is has overhauled the news to cater to iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre users. With this new overhaul comes a user interface that displays more images, news and their sources. Google also promises “you can now reach your favorite sections, discover new ones, find...

Sunday Roundup: Top Internet Stories This Past Week – 9.20-9.27.09 100 Million to the Twitter Corp According to various sources on the net – this past week – Twitter received 100 million in funding to bring the Corporation to a whooping 1 billion dollar value. Investors Insight Venture Partners, T. Rowe Price, Institutional Venture Partners, Spark Capital,...

Quick Byte: Swayze Passes Away after 20 Month Cancer Battle Actor Patrick Swayze 57, died Monday after his enduring 20 Month battle with Pancreatic Cancer. Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,” [...] by his publicist, Annett Wolf. False rumors were spread...

Sunday Roundup: Top Stories This Past Week – 9.13.2009 Tweeter Changes Terms of Service – Twitter announces its terms of service changes – publicly on its blog. Making it clear that you own your own tweets, the advertising door is left open, SPAM will not be tolerated (as usual) and they are still working on guidelines for APIs. An Related...

Fake Twitter Amber Alert, Yet Once Again Twitter, being one of the larger real time communication platforms that can pass message at the speed of thought, laid victim to a terrible hoax today. Apparently a Tweeted message was sent alerting tweeps that a 3 year Girl was taken in Stockton, Ca. The message also stated that an Amber Alert was in...

Disgruntled Man Smacks Stranger’s Kid in Wal-Mart Popular today on the social media platform Reddit, was a brief story about a 61 year old man, smacking some lady’s 2 year old child in a Georgia Walmart. Apparently Roger Stephens approached Sonya Mathews and told her to make her child stop crying. Stephens then went on to tell Mathews if she...

DJ AM found Dead in Lavish NY Apartment, Twitter Morns Dave Goldstein, 36 also know as DJ AM, was found dead in his 2 million dollar SOHO residence in New York on Friday. Goldstein who had a legacy of drug use from his early teens, was found with a bag of crack cocaine stuck to his bare chest and various drug paraphernalia spread all around him. Police were...