Twitter has announced a new site, election.twiter.com, that tracks Twitter conversations of politics in real time.
During the first presidential debate in Oxford, Mississippi and each subsequent debate leading up to and beyond election day, Twitter plans to perform real-time algorithmic analysis on millions of unedited public reactions. 
The site is addictive and it should be even [...]

“Niche songwriter” Ben Walker has released his wry take on the state of the Internet, You’re no one if you’re not on Twitte:

It’s released with a Creative Commons license, so you can download it freely and share it or put it in your podcast.
Here are the lyrics so you can sing along, too:

Viddler has launched 15s, a site that lets you create short webcam videos and post them to Twitter. 
In other words, it’s a 12seconds-killer, with 25% more video hosting power. We can see where this is heading - a short video arms race…..
Here’s an example, via a naked Gary Vaynerchuck:

Shel Israel has posted an interesting article looking at how he’s begun to rely on Twitter as his “personal search tool”:
I am coming to trust Twitter as my personal search tool…and here’s why: I can consider the recommender.
Much of the information comes from people I already know and have chatted with online. Most of the [...]

TinySong.com is a unique service for social media users that combines streaming audio, music search and URL-shortening to let you send music via Twitter, text messages and other services.
Here’s how it works:
Do a search at TinySong.com:

View the search results and select the song that you want to send:

The latest in the series of participant-organized, Open Space “unconferences,” PodCamp Seattle debuts today (June 21, 2008) at the University of Washington Communications Building.
Colleague, friend, and Edelman Digital social media expert Eric Weaver is one of the event’s organizers. He says that the focus of the Seattle PodCamp will diverge somewhat from previous PodCamps hosted [...]

twhirl, a desktop client for Twitter & Friendfeed, has been updated. It looks like it’s moving in the direction of becoming a general social networking client.
According to it the official announcement:
We took our time to make Friendfeed a lot more usable and add a few very nice features, including rooms support for Friendfeed, auto-throttling for [...]

Alison and Lloyd of technology makeover show My Home 2.0 perform some innovative surgery on an old teddy bear.
The result: a teddy bear that reads your Twitter feed.
The Twittering Teddy also has a UStream channel, so you can tweet about something and then go watch a creepy animatronic teddy bear speak it on live streaming [...]

Yesterday’s Steve Jobs keynote was a bust: he announced what people already knew he was going to announce, but little more.
And the only real surprise was that Apple’s iPhone “price cut” was really a price hike, buried in your monthly AT&T bill.
The biggest surprise of the day turned out to be that Twitter actually stayed [...]

There’s a lot of rampant speculation going on about Apple’s WWDC announcements tomorrow.
The biggest question, though, may be whether or not Twitter will go down because of the traffic during Steve Jobs’ keynote.
Over the last year, Twitter has become a love/hate relationship for most users. The site has the worst uptime of all social networks, [...]