Twitter is now available in seven languages as it adds Korean, according to this blog post (that is entirely in Korean…).

South Korea is one of Twitter’s fastest growing markets and there are apparently 10 times as many Twitter users in South Korea than there were a year ago. Read More »

Steve Jobs might be on sick leave, but the show must go on….no but seriously, that’s what’s happening. Dramatist Mike Daisey is getting ready to open his much-anticipated Steve Jobs monologue.

Daisey, who has been described on the New York Times as one of the “elite performers in the American theatre” will make his début this week with ‘The agony and the ecstasy of Steve Jobs’. Read More »

Wikipedia just celebrated its tenth birthday and have released this video and infographic to mark the occasion. Has it been that long? So many searches.

I love Wikipedia and use it throughout the day.  ‘The State of Wikipedia’ video and infographic celebrates the online encyclopedia’s origins and future of the site launched by Jimmy Wales in 2001. Read More »

Here’s an interesting one. Steven Brill’s Journalism Online paywall system has put out a survey that claims newspapers using its paywall technology are noticing little difference in terms of traffic or advertising revenue.

The default belief is that web traffic evaporates as it is thought have done at The Times where it has put up a impenetrable anti-social media paywall. Not so elsewhere. Read More »

Seriously? Apparently so. Cheezburger the company behind the LOLcats and FAIL Blog, and other internet memes has raised a whopping $30m from venture capitalists.

Cheezburger, under founder Ben Huh, has built a network of websites that now attracts almost 16.5 million people and racks up around 375 million page views per month. Not too shoddy. Read More »

It could be you! Levi’s is to crowdsource the search for the second-ever ‘Levi’s Girl’. All you have to do is submit a video arguing why you should be that face.

Levi’s is using its crowdsourcing Facebook app to find the girl who gets a six-month paid deal in San Francisco as the new ‘Levi’s Girl’ (only the brand’s second) and become the its voice for women. Read More »

Apple has released an email to the media today from CEO Steve Jobs explaining to staff that he is to take another leave of absence.

Back in January 2009 Jobs took six months leave from the company he co-founded after admitting he was suffering from “complex” health problems. Read More »

According to a New York Times report, AOL’s hyperlocal business Patch.com is in some quarters struggling for traffic.

Stories are getting as little as 100 page views and 500 views is considered a success. The problem is that such crumbs of traffic are hardly going to pull in much advertising revenue, which has proved the downfall of past failed hyperlocal ventures. Read More »

Rupert Murdoch’s planned iPad newspaper, The Daily, is to use Tumblr as part of its social media strategy to drive subscriptions.

Good news to hear that it has a social media strategy as last week the indications were that the now delayed  Daily would have a website that would only be accessible to subscribers like the the anti-social media approach of The Times. Read More »

Minneapolis ad agency Campbell Mithun is to select its next bunch of interns based on their tweets. This is so bound to catch on.

It plans to hire  13 summer interns based on an application of “13 Career-Launching Tweets” sent between the dates of February 13 – 25, 2011.  Read More »