I love Twitter. I also happen to love using the Twitter web interface. What I hate, is the new "Who to Follow" box. Why do I hate it? First, I don't need to clutter my Twitter stream by following more people thank you very much. Second, there is no way to collapse or delete the "Who to Follow" feature. I even tried "Xing" every suggested user in the hope that the feature would then give up. Did it? Nope, it just regenerated with a bunch of other names.

We are one day away from the start of the weekend! While you're making plans, enjoy these Picks: Schmidt: Google Now Activating 200,000 Android Units A Day [Video] Twitter Preparing "Shout Out" Feature Google Buys Java/Ajax Tool-Maker Instantiations Is anybody out there? Tech companies #fail at social media, says study Eric Schmidt: Every 2 Days We Create As Much Information As We Did Up To 2003 Facebook says ad spending is rocketing Google Buys Slide for $182 Million,

What a difference four years make in the Net Neutrality war. June 7th 2006 Google believes that forcing people and companies to get permission from, and pay special fees to, the phone and cable companies to connect with one another online is fundamentally counter to the freedom and innovation that have defined the Internet. August 4, 2010 Google and Verizon, two leading players in Internet service and content,

It promised so much' A "wave" is equal parts conversation and document, where people can communicate and work together with richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more. But, in the end, it just plain sucked ' Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don't plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects.

OK, so in case you need a refresher on how Pilgrim's Picks works, here you go: We only have so many writers-3 actually-and only so much time to write-we have real jobs too-and there are sometimes dozens of interesting stories floating around the web. Capiche? So, Pilgrim's Picks is kind of like the Self Serve Checkout lines you see at the grocery store. Grab the items you like and check them out !

Look, if you're going to do a survey about Twitter habits ) via (, you really should get a sample larger than 135 people. I admit, that in most cases, 135 people is enough to make a study statistically relevant, but we're talking about Twitter here. Twitter has about, what, 100 million registered users? OK, let's be conservative and say 50 million registered. More conservative still? Let's say 10 million active users. 135 out of 10 million?

Wow, if you thought Google was dominant in search, you need to redefine your idea of dominant. It is impressive enough that Google controls around 80% of the search marketing in the US, but according to Chitika , that doesn't include the search share it gets from being the default search engine in Firefox. That share alone is estimated at 9.18%, which is larger than the general market share of Yahoo or Bing!

Here's the news that didn't quite make the cut today: Echo Brings Comments To Your Homepage With Real-Time River Dilbert.com Uses Custom Search to Increase Revenue Is There A Need For A Dedicated Journalism Outfit To 'Follow Up' On News?

Where are you advertising in 2010? TV? Print? Radio? Online? Well, of course online! But, where online are you focusing your marketing efforts? According to Nielsen, if you're focusing all of your budget on search ads, you might be barking up the wrong tree. If you want to be where your consumers are actually hanging out, then social networks are the place to advertise: OK, so social networks see the greatest share of time, but which social networks?