Bing along with Federated Media has developed quite a nifty service called BingTweets , which basically allows you to keep an eye on the twitter trending topic in a more detailed and real-time manner. Twitter trending topic by itself is not exactly very useful as it doesn’t really give you a context of what is happening. Moreover even though twitter’s built in search is ‘real-time’ but users always need to click a ‘button’ when new results are added.

A new study by TubeMogul – as featured on Mashable – has drawn an interesting conclusion regarding the effectiveness of various platforms in encouraging users to watch video online. Focussing on the time spent actually watching them, it was found that Twitter was by far and away the best way to market your videos. This particular [...]

Marshall Kirkpatrick, of ReadWriteWeb fame, has a personal blog as well. Yesterday he posted his new writing routine , and I just love the simpleness of it. 1. Find story idea 2. Reach out to sources for info 3. Research online using various magic research tools, while I wait for sources to get back to me 4. Stop and think 5. Talk to sources, maybe research some more based on what they say 6. Write! Kirkpatrick needs to spend no more than two hours doing that, but you can steal it for your own writing.