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01 / Twitter > > For ballooning into a global phenomenon that, finally, has a business model. In 2009, Twitter boasted some 20 million users. Today

At noon EST (nowish), Fast Company senior editor Nancy Cook is scheduled to moderate a panel, "Startup America--Reducing Barriers" at the White House. The plan is to have a chat with Karen Mills, Administrator of the U.S.

01 / YouTube For transforming itself from Google's folly into a global network.

Someone might want to tell the SXSW -attending web designers still queuing up for iPad2s outside a pop-up Apple store a few blocks away from the Austin Convention Center: The iPad itself is not going to transform the way we read online. Or so said Khoi Vinh, former design director for NYTimes.com , during a one-on-one with me on the PepsiCo Plugged-In Stage at SXSW yesterday. Apps don't yet deliver when it comes to two critical reader needs: the desire to customize, and the desire to share content.

The Boston startup plans to disrupt Groupon and Foursquare by making a game that combines the genius of both, and imagines how the benefits of games can extend beyond business. Thousands of SXSW -goers packed like dominoes onto the escalators of the Austin Convention Center on Saturday, waiting to hear Seth Priebatsch, the 22-year-old founder and "chief ninja" of Scvngr , proclaim the future of location-based apps

Nuclear power is evil. Solar power is our savior. Or…is it the other way around

Bravia color-blasts San Francisco's streets. When announcing its new line of TVs, Sony enlisted Fallon, an agency based in London.