There’s some trouble Twitter, someone gets 60 days in jail for a YouTube video,Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon get digital for their movie premiere, Match.com gets sued, and much more. Find out what happen today in the tech world!
1. Is there Trouble @Twitter? Twitter was the hottest thing on the web but in the past year traffic has leveled down. Nearly half the sites users that have Twitter accounts no are longer active on the network, according to an ExactTarget report from January 2011. [FORTUNE]
2. Look for Porn Day at Google.com. In Steven Levy’s new book, “In The Plex,” he describes, how Matt Cutt, Google engineer, encouraged his co-workers to filter out porn sites. After complaining to his wife, she volunteered to bake cookies for those who found porn sites that escaped Cutt’s SafeSearch filter. [Huffpost]
3. Are Social Networking sites going to replace the emergency broadcast system? No more warning and test over TV and radio? It seems so. Homeland Security will start Tweeting and have a Facebook to warn citizens about threats with its new National Terrorism Advisory System. The new system which is set to launch April 27th will post warnings to social networks. [techcrunch]
4. No need for shame, want Wired’s IPad Edition for free? For a whole month Adobe will be sponsoring the edition. Now you can download and read for free! [AdAGe]
5. Evan Emory sentenced 2 months in jail for his comedy YouTube Video. Emory enraged parents when he posted a fake video of himself singing a sexually explicit song to young students. Not only will he be in jail for 60 days for “manufacturing child sexual abusive material.” but he will be one probation for 3 years and forbidden from contact with kids under 17. [Gawker]
6. The rumors behind Twitter’s CEO, Ev Williams’ fall. Last month he stepped down from his title but there is still an unclear understanding as to why he is no longer CEO. Some of the whispers are: board members pushed him out because of a drinking problem or thought he was “not CEO material”. [Gawker]
“By October 2010, Williams had run out of steam,” Fortune writes in its Twitter takedown about the company’s “secret board meetings, executive power struggles” and “clipped wings.” “Williams says he demoted himself … Multiple sources close to the board say its members asked him to step aside, but no board member will confirm that.”
7. Want to join Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon at the premier of their movie Water for Elephants? Now you can with Color, a free app for iPhones that allows you to take pictures, videos and text together. Check out the real time candid photos of the Water for Elephants Premiere this Sunday at 7pm at color.com/waterforelephants.
8. Type with your eye balls. Students at Brigham Young University have managed to create an eye tracking Windows 7 tablet that costs under $1,500. Though, it is not the first of its kind, it sure it the first to be affordable. Others eye tracking hardware and software are ridiculously expensive, some value up to $6,900! [ENGADGET]
9. T3 Motion’s Three Wheeled vehicle is real and finally here! The three wheeled R3 has a Galaxy Tab built in dashboard, will range between 80-100 miles, a top speed of 70 MPH, will be classified as a motorcycle and cost you the hefty amount of $25,000. (coming soon for Androids and Windows 7) [ENGADGET]
10. Ipads are in the Cockpit… Now that iPad’s have won the approval from the Federal Aviation Administration they will display navigational charts for some charter pilots. iPads will be used by Executive Jet Management, a unit of Warren Buffett’s NetJets and will open the opportunity for other airlines seeking the iPad’s navigation system. [BusinessWeek]
