Silicon Alley Insider (Wednesday)

Perhaps envious of all the buzz the WSJ got for its "RAT INVASION!" story, the New York Times is now accepting photograph submissions of New York City Subway rats.

"We’ll make a slide show that will move Willard to tears," the NYT's unbylined post reads.

This on the tai...

TechCrunch (Wednesday)
At first glance, our Twitter account, @TechCrunch, doesn't have much in common with @BarackObama's. He's the President, we are a lowly tech blog. His staff Tweets out quotes from his speeches, we Tweet out links to our stories. He has 5.3 million followers, we have 1.4 million. But according t...

TechCrunch (Wednesday)
At first glance, our Twitter account, @TechCrunch, doesn't have much in common with @BarackObama's. He's the President, we are a lowly tech blog. His staff Tweets out quotes from his speeches, we Tweet out links to our stories. He has 5.3 million followers, we have 1.4 million. But according t...

TechCrunch (Wednesday)
Klout, a startup that measures influence on Twitter, is expanding its horizons today with the launch of BirdBrain, a new feature that allows you to measure influence using data from both Facebook and Twitter. BirdBrain uses Facebook connect to look at the interests listed on a user's profile and t...

TechCrunch (Wednesday)
Klout, a startup that measures influence on Twitter, is expanding its horizons today with the launch of BirdBrain, a new feature that allows you to measure influence using data from both Facebook and Twitter. BirdBrain uses Facebook connect to look at the interests listed on a user's profile and t...

TechCrunch (Wednesday)
Plancast, the social planning service created by TechCrunch alum Mark Hendrickson, is rich with data. It knows not only what you're planning to do in the foreseeable future, but what your friends are planning, and what their friends are planning. But all of this data has been trapped inside of Planc...