Vegas Hotels Trade Rooms In Exchange for New Twitter Followers

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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.

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 [...]

Tech Week in Review 10-30-09

Tech Week In Review

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.

Twitter Claims Another Athlete: Larry Johnson Barred After Twitter Slur

Celeb 2.0

Kansas City Chief Star Running Back Larry Johnson has landed himself in hot water after making an anti-gay comments on his Twitter account. The incident ,which occurred during an exchange with one of his Twitter followers, was exacerbated after Johnson used the same anti-gay slur to  brush off reporters a day later. [...]

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

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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 [...]