Ben Folds, the former frontman of the band Ben Folds Five played a tribute to Merton of Chatroulette Improv fame.  Folds was playing in front of 2,000 people in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Ben Folds played a song about every random person he saw on Chatroulette.  I especially liked 3:38 when Ben Folds played a song for a guy sitting on the toilet. Here’s a link to Merton’s original performance. [Geekosystem]

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs wrote an e-mail to a consumer saying that Picasa will not be available on the iPad.  A UK reader of 9to5Mac.com wrote the following e-mail to Steve Jobs:

“The iPad photo app looks incredible.  Are there any plans to support Picasa’s faces and albums in iTunes, so I can take full advantage of the Photos application, since Photo Album is long discontinued.  If not, please can you look into supporting the Picasa library format?”

Jobs wrote back saying: “No, but iPhone on the Mac has much better Faces and Places features.” [9to5Mac]

Yesterday Twitter creator Jack Dorsey sent out a tweet saying “Tomorrow is Twitter’s 4th birthday. What are you doing for it? #twitterday.”  Twitter has come a long way in the last four years including hitting their 10 billionth tweet.  Below are some additional details about Twitter:
-Hit a rate of about 1 billion tweets being sent out per month. 
– The company has deals in place with Google and Microsoft.
– Dell made $6.5 million by offering deals on Twitter too.
– Twitter was the most used word in 2009.
– Twitter launched a lists feature last year.
– Ivanka Trump asked her Twitter followers to help her choose a wedding song.
– NASA hosted their first space launch tweetup last year.
– Drew Carey said he would bid $1 million on the account @Drew if the account hit 1 million followers last year.
– Twitter accounted for 10% of The New York Times’ web traffic.
– Facebook started emulating the @ symbol style for status messages.
– Twitter users reported a helicopter crash and airplane crash on the Hudson.
– Twitter acquired Summize in 2008.
– Facebook even attempted to buy Twitter.
– Congressman Pete Hoekstra tweeted about his trip in Iraq.
– Jason Calacanis offered $250,000 to be a suggested user to follow.
– Ryan Coss got a fail whale Twitter tattoo.
– Jennifer Aniston reportedly broke up with John Mayer because he used Twitter too much and spent less time with her.
– Demi Moore’s tweets may have saved a life.
– Stephen Colbert interviewed Twitter co-founder Biz Stone [full transcript].
– Mark Cuban was fined for tweeting about what he thought about an NBA referee.
– Michael Massimino tweeted from space.
– Rapper Jim Jones tweeted while being arrested.
– Pizza Hut hired their first Twitter summer intern.
– CNN acquired a CNN-related Twitter account that they did not own.
– Kanye West talked about how angry he was about a fake Twitter account on his blog.
– UT Southwestern and the Children’s Medical Center live tweeted a kidney transplant.
– Oprah joined Twitter.
– Arnold Schwarznegger tweeted during an emergency landing.
– Twitter CEO’s wife Sara Williams tweeted about her new born baby after giving birth.

Genoom is a Spain-based social networking company that has just hit 1 million registered users.  Genoom allows family members to communicate with each other privately.  The company raised about  $80,000 three years ago from Mitadel.  Genoom launched in July 2007 and is available in 17 languages. [TechCrunch]

Mozilla engineer Rob Sayre wrote a blog post earlier today to Steve Ballmer asking Microsoft to make an NDK for the Windows Phone 7 Series. Either people really liked the article Sayre wrote or they really hated it. Below is an excerpt:

What’s this got do with you? Well, you have this new Windows Phone thing going on. Tufte slammed it a little, and maybe the cropped UI is kind of busted. I’ll give it a shot, though. I think a head to head comparison makes you look pretty good. It makes the iPhone UI look like it’s made of ugly jelly beans. I’m kind of surprised–the allegedly cool Cocoa Touch stuff is reminding me of 90s Unix window managers. Oh wait, that’s what it is. haha.

Later on during the day, Sayre wrote an apology blog post:

Blog posts that sound like Jim Anchower really irritate people for some reason. I won’t do it again, I promise.
Open letters irritate people. I won’t do those anymore either.
Calling anything done in Cocoa ugly irritates people.
Encouraging a classic embrace-and-extend maneuver irritates people.
So that last post was something of a grand slam. Sorry. A Windows Phone NDK would be cool though, right?

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has released an application for the Apple App Store.  The application is available for free.  The application lets you set up bookmarks, improve web browsing, share results through e-mail, copy and paste URLs, exploit location settings, and lock in parental controls. [Bing Search Blog]

Palm, Inc. (NASDAQ:PALM) reported that their results for the third quarter would be worse than expected and the stock fell after that.  Two analysts lowered their price targets for Palm’s stock to $0.  Thats rough. “Palm is essentially an accelerating death spiral.” stated Morgan Joseph & Co. analyst Illya Grozovsky.  “They have had a tremendous problem selling their devices even at carriers like Verizon with 80 million subscribers.” [CNN]

The Roewe 350 is going to be the world’s first Android-powered automobile.  The car will be making its debut at the Beijing Auto Show next month.  The Roewe 350 will be available on April 23rd and it will cost 70,000-130,000 yuan which is about $10,250-$19,000.

The automobile comes with turn-by-turn directions and the operating system is Android 2.1.  There are live traffic views and online chatting services built within the car’s operating system. The Chinese car company SAIC (Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation) is the automobile producing the vehicles. [Mashable]