Do you Twitter? At this point, with all the hubbub about Twitter all over the news and mainstream media in general, everybody and their mom knows what Twitter is. But do they use it? While there are over 25 million users of the service already, 80% of accounts have fewer than 10 followers which implies that [...]

RT @activenetwork: 6 Common Running Injuries to Avoid: http://bit.ly/6Injury#RT @bitrebels: Web Design Rap | Making Design Sound Cool – http://bit.ly/4grZbH#RT @collis: 35 Mac Apps Improve Your Web Browsing Experience http://bit.ly/pkjkZ#RT @mashable: Facebook Testing Yet Another Homepage Redesign – http://bit.ly/21aYO0#Doing a bit of retweeting a few interesting tweets….last few weeks, I’ve been too busy to think up my own stuff! #Tags: the design foundry, twitter

Mobile media company JiWire and satellite broadband provider Row 44 are teaming up to deliver an in-flight Wi-Fi system that will come to you for free via advertising support. Southwest and Alaska Airlines have already begun to test the new service, which will make it possible for advertisers to target the coveted “business traveler” demographic in exchange for free Wi-Fi. The system is expected to launch fully on at least those two airlines this fall.

When big brands try to create novelty Facebook applications, the results are often disappointing (remember Whopper Sacrifice ?). It’s too early to make a final judgment on Coca-Cola’s Coke Zero Facebook tie-in , but the idea is fun enough that it just might work. The Coke Zero Facial Profiler app aims to use Facebook to find your digital double. Coca-Cola promotes its Coke Zero brand under the guise of “having Coke’s taste but with zero calories” so finding an identical stranger is an interesting tie-in.

The team behind Google Maps today reports several interesting improvements to the service. First of all, they’ve created a new base map dataset, which includes several publicly accessible geospatial government-created datasets, with information pertaining to toll roads, bridges, road networks and the like. In practice, this simply means more data and more details in Google Maps.