Whenever you link to an item on Amazon or iTunes, Twitter is now offering a preview of the content, with a little widget embedded in the tweet. This will likely help users, while netting Twitter some cash. [TheDigitalReader via SlashGear]
Your Google+ profile ID is a horrifying string of meaningless numbers. For example, mine is 111203177111013925515. Gah! Here’s how to pretty it up. More »
Does the world really need another URL shortener? One backed by Lady Gaga, 50 Cent and Pepsi, at that? One that’s run by a CEO described almost entirely by the fact that he lives on New York’s hipster-laden LES (Lower-East Side)? More »
Buzz app of the week Color received a whopping $US41m in investment. You’ve probably already heard – it’s all anyone seems to be talking about today. But did you know that they spent $US350,000 of that money on just the color.com URL? [dnCrunch]
…I’d suggest hanging around the Westin St Francis Hotel in Union Square, San Francisco, during your lunch break on March 17. More »
On this day, back in 1985, the first ever dotcom URL was created, Symbolics.com. There were just six dotcoms registered that year, compared to the 100,000 that are created every day now. More »
