It’s Friday again. on Twitter, that means that it’s the beginning of another #FollowFriday – one of Twitter’s all-time hottest hashtags and one of the microblogging platform’s best cross-promotion tools. Never experienced one yet? Here’s how it works. on Friday, active twitterers get on and send out some Tweets where they list (using @reply syntax) [...]

Here are some good posts and links I ran across in the last week.

Dan Curtis gives you some helpful steps on how to handle and preserve you old, historic photos. I’ve been doing stuff with old photos lately, so this will be helpful.
Dean at Genlighten has a geeky post about Genealogy sites and their APIs. [...]

Editor’s Note: In this new weekly feature, CNN.com highlights five recommended Twitter feeds about a hot topic in the news. Let us know who we missed in the comments section.
(CNN) — this has been a wild week for tech news.
Google is going to stream and sell music. Facebook has music now, too, and [...]

Here is is the first weekend in March. Spring is only 15 days away and we can start thinking about baseball, beaches, cookouts and outdoor fun. Hopeful to get away and get a little R&R and spend more time watching waves and less watching progress bars. Here are your five Follow Friday Twitter fantastic Apps [...]

Twitbit [$2.99 - iTunes link] is the iPhone Twitter client that just won’t quit — pushing updates and new features almost as fast as notifications. The latest is Twitbit 2.3:

Support for Twitter’s new retweet feature.
Support for Twitter’s new geotagging feature.
Support for Twitter’s new lists feature.
Support for Twitter’s new user search feature.
Trends tab.
Trend explanations.
Account management redesigned.
Search [...]

Twitter, the popular but money-losing microblogging service, is hiring engineers and specialists who can help turn it into a money-maker.
The 2-1/2-year-old Internet start-up, whose short text messages or “tweets” have become a global social phenomenon, is building up a team focused on generating revenue with a new range of yet-to-be launched products, judging by job [...]

By Patrick Hennessy, Political Editor Published: 9:00PM BST 12 Sep 2009
The Prime Minister will use a speech on Tuesday at the TUC conference in Liverpool to try to “bind in” his union critics to a strategy of protecting front line services such as schools and hospitals while cutting spending elsewhere as Britain emerges from [...]