People seem to be able to find the strangest things to do on twitter, and this is no exception. The researcher is trying to make her research go worldwide, and people are invited to tell her what they dreamed about.

Small companies trying to wade the waters of web 2.0 are having a tough time. A staggering (in my opinion) 75% of small businesses don't find social networking sites useful. Many people are predicting social networking will become very important as time goes on, but some are still resisting it.

Basically twitter is trying to get users to sign up by featuring top tweets. They want people who aren't users to see the content that's available and get them roped into the site and signed up! This was launched today, so will probably have some tweaks as twitter sees how people are responding.

If a stranger came up to you on the street, would you give him your name, Social Security number and e-mail address? Probably not. Yet people often dole out all kinds of personal information on the Internet that allows such identifying data to be deduced.

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