Ashton Tweets, S/Urge, Libel Revisited and the ow.ly-Twitter Hustle

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– zOMG: grainy shots of Ashton and Demi! This cinches it: following celebrities on Twitter is almost as rad as following them around in real life. (Diggin’ how the NYT actually quotes Kutcher’s tweets, as if to prove THIS IS ALL REAL.)

– Gmail went down early this morning, and it’s like the universe exploded.

– We actually ate this.

– BrightKit, a management/metrics dashboard for multiple Twitter accounts, changed its name to HootSuite and went pro-bono. (That is, it’s no longer trying to charge a fee for services.) To compensate, it’s selling display ad space above webpages whose links are shortened via ow.ly (HootSuite’s version of tinyURL) — meaning you could, in theory, make money (or build brand awareness…?) by spreading Twittersphere link-love.

– Fake Steve Jobs makes “wah” noises over monetizing blogging.

– Coca-Cola’s Urge looks suspiciously like Coca-Cola’s Surge. Remember the aftertaste on that stuff?

– Wedding the Sex and the City model to kitschy “Cathy”: just one more lovechild the universe didn’t need. Especially in the name of Baked Lay’s.

“True statements can be libelous if published maliciously.” Wait … what?!

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