A new home page for Twitter

Twitter introduced a new, more dynamic home page earlier this week and it seems as if Twitter is differentiating itself from other social networks by positioning their network as the foremost source for real-time updates.  This is reflected in their new description of their service:  “Share and discover what’s happening right now, anywhere in the world.”  The new home page include has a scrolling list featuring trending topics, a constant stream of tweets from random Twitter users and a box featuring current Twitter users inviting visitors to “See who’s here.” Do you like the new home page?

Facebook bug reveals private email addresses

For about 30 minutes on 30 March a bug made private email addresses public information on Facebook.  It seems as if the error occurred during a “regular code push” and thus far there has been no official explanation from Facebook.  In an online world where we’re all concerned with privacy this is a big blunder from Facebook’s side.

Posterous adds easy custom domain registration

Earlier this week Posterous announced their new one-stop domain registration feature.  With the new feature Posterous will take care of all the “geeky details” – all you have to do is register your personal domain and link it to Posterous.  The new feature integrates with Google and you can set up Google Apps like email, calendars and so forth easily on your domain.  At the moment only .com, .net or .org domains can be registered through Posterous.