Do you follow more than 100 people on Twitter? If so, have you ever tried to manage them on Twitter.com? It’s awful. Really awful. They make you go through page after page of names in no real order (other than how recently you added them). If you want to remove some people you followed years ago,...

Last summer, we wrote about the launch of Retweet.com , a Tweetmeme knock-off with a killer name . Mesiab Labs , a company associated with some spammy Twitter projects like Hummingbird, launched it in August with some fanfare. However, since then, Tweetmeme has remained the king of the space. And now...

After hitting a flat spot last fall, Twitter’s worldwide growth is pointing in the right direction again. According to worldwide comScore figures released today, Twitter’s own site attracted 73.5 million unique individuals in January, up 8 percent from December, 2009 (when it had 65.2 million...

Although the iPad was a disappointment to us as far as what we were expecting, I’m still excited to try one out because I know it will be one of the devices that really helps introduce and popularize the tablet computer. And one consequence of this is the kind of app Wired is making, an alternative...

The tickets for Twitter’s first official conference, Chirp , are selling quickly — despite the $469 price. Twitter is planning to release about 800 tickets for the event total but is putting them up for sale in waves. The first batch, about 1/3rd of the tickets, went on sale last month and sold...

These days, thanks to its growing ubiquity in the media, nearly everyone knows what Twitter is. But back in 2006, when it was known as Twttr , a side project of the podcasting service Odeo, no one knew what it was. So co-founder Biz Stone made a video. As you can watch below in “Twttr 101,”...

I just returned from the Microsoft campus, where some students from Carnegie Mellon University are showing off their awesome project , a version of D&D that runs on the Surface . Now, before you start rolling your eyes, just recognize that this isn’t just a holy grail for tabletop gaming nerds....

When you’re on your way out of a job, there’s a lot of fun ways to exit. Some choose to take all the staplers in the office, some show up to the last day in shorts, some pull a Jerry Maguire . And some tweet out a haiku. That’s exactly what Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz did...

Early this morning, Twitter began alerting certain users to reset their passwords because of a possible phishing attack. They later elaborated on it a bit but it still wasn’t clear exactly what was going on. Now they’ve felt the need to fully go into exactly what went down — and it’s...

As we noted earlier , Google announced an update today to its Android OS for Nexus One phones that would enable the pinch-to-zoom multi-touch feature for the first time in a few Google apps: Maps, Gallery, and the Web Browser. We’ve just received the update, which is technically firmware 2.1-update1,...

Twitter is locking many users out of the system this morning, and sending them notices that they need to change their passwords in order to regain access to the service, due to concerns over a possible phishing attack . While some people are worried that the e-mails might have actually been a phishing...

In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin published a paper [PDF] titled Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Search Engine , in which they outlined the core technology behind Google and the theory behind PageRank. Now, twelve years after that paper was published, the team behind social search engine Aardvark...