Vegas Hotels Trade Rooms In Exchange for New Twitter Followers

The Rio and MGM Grand Hotels in Las Vegas are running new Twitter promotions, giving away hotel stays in exchange for tweets. Until Nov. 27, folks who tweet their sins along with the hashtag #mgmsin will be entered in a once-a-day random drawing for a night's stay at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino on the strip. MGM's social media team is posting the names of the winners as soon as they are drawn, and they've extended the promotion to mgmgrandsins.com. There you can tweet directly from the page, see a list of winners, and vote on the most forgivable and unforgivable sins that have been posted so far. A few folks have already forfeited by not responding to claim their prize, so if you enter, be sure to check back regularly.

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Simler Makes Your Online Discussions More Focused

Simler is a new social network that takes a slightly different approach than usual. Rather than following specific people, you follow topics. This is similar to the way your average web forum works, but it’s much more flexible. You can also easily connect with people that share your interests by tagging yourself with those things [...]

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Tech Week in Review 10-30-09

Google Music is a Reality Google has partnered with LaLa and iLike (owned by MySpace) to bring you enhanced music search. Not only can you preview and purchase music from artists you already like, but you can also use it to discover new artists.

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Visiting Y Combinator’s Startup School with Ev, Zuckerberg, and Hsieh

I decided to make the trek out to Berkeley to check out this year’s Startup School (and to let it serve as a serious peptalk–it’s working).  Startup School has been held since 2006 by the folks behind Y Combinator, a venture capital firm that specializes in funding early stage startups.  Teams can raise up to [...]

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Tweetboard Brings Twitter Discussion to Your Site

Tweetboard is an application that creates a micro-forum on your website using your Twitter stream. It's near real-time since tweets will appear in less than 60 seconds. Your Twitter conversations are automatically threaded with unlimited nesting, which makes it easy to follow each discussion and get a broader picture of all conversations.

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Tech Week in Review 10-23-09

No clue what took them so long, but photo sharing site Flickr has finally added the ability to tag people in your photos. You should be familiar with this feature from Facebook, but you have also probably been highly annoyed by this feature on Facebook as well. What makes Flickr's tagging features superior to Facebook's is the controls offered to the user.

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#BeatCancer Breaks Twitter Trends and Sets Guinness World Record

EVERYWHERE, a Social Media Marketing and Content Development firm based in Atlanta, GA set a record October 16-17th for the most widespread social network message in 24 hours. According to Radian6, the official online monitoring company, the phrase #BeatCancer set the record with 209,771 mentions on Twitter, Facebook and blog posts. This translates into an [...]

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Coming Soon, Twitter in Your Language!

Long limited to English and Japanese, Twitter is crowd-sourcing translations for its interface. Starting with German, French, Spanish, and Italian, Twitter is going multi-lingual. The Twitter blog says:

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Tech Week in Review 10-16-09

Twitter Doing Video Tweets? Uh…No. For some odd reason, Britain’s Telegraph suggested that Twitter would be adding the ability to upload and host video on the site. Never mind the fact that there are several services that integrate closely with Twitter to provide just such a service. Duplicating those features would only hurt Twitter. The rumor [...]

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Twacy.org for Change You Can Believe

Actor/comedian Tracy Morgan is now tweeting from a verified Twitter account (@RealTracyMorgan) after succumbing to the pressure of new celebrity sighting website OMGICU. Welcome Mr. Morgan to the family and follow him. {smh}

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