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...most telling facts about the Twitter platform is that the vast majority of its users interact with the service via software created by third parties. There are dozens of iPhone and BlackBerry applications - all created by enterprising amateur coders or small start-ups - that let you manage Twitter feeds. There are services that help you upload photos and link to them from your tweets, and programs that map other Twitizens who are near you geographically. Ironically, the tools you're offered if you visit Twitter.com have changed very little in the past two years. But there's an entire Home...
...China that the government recently blocked access to it, in an attempt to censor discussion of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. A service called SickCity scans the Twitter feeds from multiple urban areas, tracking references to flu and fever. Celebrity Twitterers like Kutcher have directed their vast followings toward charitable causes (in Kutcher's case, the Malaria No More organization...
...rapid-fire innovation we're seeing around Twitter is not new, of course. Facebook, whose audience is still several times as large as Twitter's, went from being a way to scope out the most attractive college freshmen to the Social Operating System of the Internet, supporting a vast ecosystem of new applications created by major media companies, individual hackers, game creators, political groups and charities. The Apple iPhone's long-term competitive advantage may well prove to be the more than 15,000 new applications that have been developed for the device, expanding its functionality in countless ingenious ways...
...Sascha Pallenberg, founder of netbooknews.com, says according to consumer polls conducted by his website, the vast majority of consumers - 87% - buy netbooks for their longer battery life. (Form factor was also mentioned as the key reason for buying by 70% of those polled...
...squeezing the calf and watching the ankle move; on the good side, it wiggles up and down when we squeeze. On the torn side, there's no motion at all. Yes, there is an occasional partial tear that might be harder to diagnose, but in the vast majority of cases, an orthopedist who simply looks, listens and feels will make the diagnosis of Achilles-tendon rupture - with confidence. (Watch TIME's video "Uninsured Again...