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Top-ranked Lee Westwood has threatened to close his Twitter account because of the amount of abuse directed at him and fellow golfers on the social networking site.

About 100,000 people have downloaded the social video sharing app in the last few days alone. And cute puppy clips aren't the only draw. With mobile-friendly max clip lengths of 15 seconds, Viddy's part Twitter, part Instagram, all the rage.

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By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine In the era of WikiLeaks and Twitter, can anyone keep a secret? Governments have learned that, all too often, the answer is no. [More]

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E-Ink Holdings, which makes the display tech behind Amazon's Kindle e-reader, can now print updatable digital displays onto cloth . Yep...you're already imagining what Google or Facebook could do with the ad space on your T-shirt , aren't you?

Xobni, which makes a free Microsoft Outlook plug-in that helps you manage your inbox, has launched the Xobni Gadget Store . If you already have Xobni installed, you can visit the store and download “gadgets” from a variety of services, including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

1. Sony's woes are deepening: Sony Online Entertainment has also been breached , as well as the PSN, and over 24.6 million user accounts are affected. It's early days, but Sony thinks over 12,000 credit cards have been compromised one way or another and personal info on the millions of other users may include addresses, names, dates of birth, and encrypted passwords

And other stories about how the news of Al Qaeda’s leader’s passing ping-ponged around the web and social media, from BNO News to George W. Bush. It was one of the most tweeted--but not the single most tweeted--events, Twitter tells us.

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Also: Barack Obama will be a fan of the Washington Post Company product, according to a begging-to-be-viral promotional video. The Washington Post Company gets with the times in a big way today, with Trove, a personalized news aggregation site. Trove personalizes news in a couple of ways--it uses Facebook Connect to cull information about your interests, and it offers pairs of articles for you to choose from, Hot-or-Not style

Associates of WikiLeaks are forging ahead in their battle to prevent the government from accessing information about their use of Twitter. On Friday, the case to bar federal prosecutors from accessing Twitter records related to users associated with WikiLeaks heads back to court. A Magistrate judge heard the users’ motions earlier this year and turned down their request to toss the order out.

The Ugandan government, facing social unrest over high food and fuel prices, will order its ISPs to block Twitter and Facebook.

Taptu's brand new iPad app brings us one step closer to the future of perfectly personalized news. Sure, it's nice to have an RSS reader that looks good