Social media and crowdsourcing are like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich: they’re just things that go well together. Social media’s wide reach makes it easier than ever to poll current customers and get input on potential customers on what feature they want to see. Social media crowdsourcing is also a great marketing tool, as Mountain Dew is once again demonstrating. The high-caffeine PepsiCo-made soft drink launched a campaign last year called DEWmocracy , which allowed Dew’s fans to choose the next Mountain Dew flavor – they ended up choosing Voltage.

Social media and crowdsourcing are like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich: they’re just things that go well together. Social media’s wide reach makes it easier than ever to poll current customers and get input on potential customers on what feature they want to see. Social media crowdsourcing is also a great marketing tool, as Mountain Dew is once again demonstrating. The high-caffeine PepsiCo-made soft drink launched a campaign last year called DEWmocracy , which allowed Dew’s fans to choose the next Mountain Dew flavor – they ended up choosing Voltage.

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By Mark Evans | Published: July 18, 2009 Over the past few days, everything you probably ever wanted to know about Twitter has been available on TechCrunch, which has published a flurry of internal confidential documents provided by French hacker Hacker Croll, who broke into Twitter’s internal systems.While TechCrunch has attracted a lot of attention for putting on display Twitter’s internal thoughts, discussions, plans and strategic vision, it has also garnered growing criticism for publishing the documents, which were stolen from Twitter.Personally, I think TechCrunch did what any news organization would do if given something that would make for a terrific story.

Developers and users rely on the Twitter API (Application Programming Interface) to connect the social tool to 3rd party apps like TweetDeck and Seesmic . Thus, when there are changes, people notice -especially developers. This morning, there’s been some buzz about new changes to the Twitter API. First noticed by SocialToo founder Jessie Stay, the new changes revolves around the “verify credentials” method of the API. Specifically, users can only verify their Twitter usernames and passwords 15 times per hour.

Developers and users rely on the Twitter API (Application Programming Interface) to connect the social tool to 3rd party apps like TweetDeck and Seesmic . Thus, when there are changes, people notice -especially developers. This morning, there’s been some buzz about new changes to the Twitter API. First noticed by SocialToo founder Jessie Stay, the new changes revolves around the “verify credentials” method of the API. Specifically, users can only verify their Twitter usernames and passwords 15 times per hour.

Developers and users rely on the Twitter API (Application Programming Interface) to connect the social tool to 3rd party apps like TweetDeck and Seesmic . Thus, when there are changes, people notice -especially developers. This morning, there’s been some buzz about new changes to the Twitter API. First noticed by SocialToo founder Jessie Stay, the new changes revolves around the “verify credentials” method of the API. Specifically, users can only verify their Twitter usernames and passwords 15 times per hour.

Developers and users rely on the Twitter API (Application Programming Interface) to connect the social tool to 3rd party apps like TweetDeck and Seesmic . Thus, when there are changes, people notice -especially developers. This morning, there’s been some buzz about new changes to the Twitter API. First noticed by SocialToo founder Jessie … Read the whole story here:  Does Twitter Need to Contact Developers on All API Changes? Related posts: 20 Developers to Follow on Twitter This post is part of Mashable’s Social Media series…

Facebook privacy settings gone wild – Husbands receives single ad with wife’s picture Originally uploaded by Ines Mergel . It seems as if Facebook has changed their privacy settings again without informing the users: Facebook now uses by default your pictures in their Facebook ads. I first heard about it on the Mashable Blog . This came out recently when a man saw ads on his Facebook page for a dating website with his wife’s picture in it. The screenshot of the wife’s blog shows the ad and the whole story.

How many of you read the Terms of Service word-for-word when you’re about to download software from the Internet? I’ll admit that I skim this particular document because the lawyer-speak drives me nuts. I don’t remember having to agree with a TOS before I uploaded the Kindle app to my iTouch last year, but I’m sure I had to check off something before I could use the app. Evidently, hundreds of people didn’t read the fine print either because they got upset when Amazon removed George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm from their Kindle devices .