In this post from the blog "The Innovation Diaries", the author tries to categorize people's tweets into a hierarchy resembling Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for human beings. Each category is well explained and then illustrated by a few examples.
Denise Pires, a student from University of Amsterdam, wrote in the blog "Masters of Media" about why we, as human beings, tend to use the well-known microblogging service.
Craiglook is a useful mash-up, which uses Yahoo Pipes to aggregate RSS Feeds from Craigslist and Google Maps to create a new-and-improved Craigslist search facility. Filtering products by location, category, cost and relevance is much easier compared to the original, not to mention the enhanced visual appeal. Check it out!
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told a live audience yesterday that if he were to create Facebook again today, user information would by default be public, not private as it was for years until the company changed dramatically in December.