Tweetlog for Monday, August 25, 2008

• Twitterland reactions to Ted Kennedy tribute - very touching
• Twitterland reactions to Caroline Kennedy - boring
• Twitterland reactions to Jesse Jackson - glowing
• Twitterland reactions to Jimmy Carter -- many were distracted by his creepy left eye
• Twitterland reaction to Nancy Pelosi not kind
• Retweet @dannysullivan: after nearly four years in the making, google suggest finally comes to the google home page http://snurl.com/3jqhe
• Chat and IM tool Adium releases ver 1.3 with chat support for Facebook.
• Tweeters enjoying new FriendFeed beta release
• Latin American pop star Daddy Yankee endorses John McCain for president
• US stocks tumble following disapointing housing report. DJIA down 2.1%
• Twitter speak: "fail whale" = Twitter is down
• Manchester United beats Portsmouth 1-0
• Usage of hashtags for group twittering on the rise. How? Include your group name in the Tweet. e.g. #groupname - use any name, then search!
• Seattle based travel site TripHub.com closes its doors
• 2008 Tennis US Open begins today at Billie Jean King National Tennis Stadium in Queens, NY
• Tropical Storm Gustav now blowing in the Caribbean. Forecasters say it could reach hurricane strength. Heading toward Haiti/Dominican Rep.
• Tweetrush.com goes live providing Twitter usage stats. Initial observations are positive.
• Tyson Foods to donate 100 pounds of food to Austin area food bank for every comment received on its blog.
• Rave reviews for "Playing for Keeps" - A superhero novel by Mur Lafferty. Solid five star reviews at Amazon (sold out).
• New Yorkers are buzzing about RideTheCity.com -- a new Google Maps mash-up that aims to provide safe bike driving directions
• The Democratic National Convention (#DNC08) officially begins tonigh at 5:00pm EST
• Southeastern United States under severe weather watch and tornado alerts
• Barenaked Ladies frontman Ed Robertson and three others survive plane crash in southeastern Ontario
• It's raining sideways in Georgia.
• From the journal "Science" by way of NY Times: Researchers at the Swiss Univ of Lausanne find we can smell danger - alarm pheromones we emit
• Online real estate search site Trulia releases mobile version.