adayinthelifeofanintmkter: Weekly Wrap-up: Twitter in the Library, iPhone Gets Multitasking, Goodbye Google Gears, And More...

Saturday, April 17, 2010

Our number one post this week was that Twitter's archives will soon be housed in the hallowed halls of the Library of Congress. There's got to be joke about librarians shushing tweets in there somewhere. We also continued our exploration of the significant Internet trends of 2010. We wrote about Internet of Things threads you'll be wearing soon, a real-time trip into Twitter's past, and that augmented reality is going to the fishes on the Discovery Channel. Read on for more.

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Story of the Week: Twitter in the Library of Congress

Twitter's Entire Archive Headed to the Library of Congress

Apple Announces iPhone OS 4 with Support for Multitasking

10 Smart Clothes You'll Be Wearing Soon

Goodbye, Gears - Google Docs Boots Plugin for HTML5 on May 3rd

Top 10 YouTube Videos About Facebook

New Google Docs Features: Added Co-Editing Capabilities, Similar To Google Wave

More coverage and analysis from ReadWriteWeb

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Mobile Web

Where Does Android Register on Google's "Evil" Meter?

Opera Takes a Back Seat to Safari on the iPhone

Microsoft's New Phone Gets the Social/App Balance Wrong

More Mobile Web coverage

Augmented Reality

Discovery Channel Puts AR In Front of Millions of Eyeballs

More Augmented Reality coverage

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Internet of Things

10 Smart Clothes You'll Be Wearing Soon

DASH7: Bringing Sensor Networking to Smartphones

More Internet of Things coverage

Real-Time Web

Google's Twitter Timeline Lets You Explore the Past

Microblogging vs. Blogging: 5 Ways to Create an Open Twitter Alternative

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