Film critic Roger Ebert from Twitter and Amazon.com. He has about 350,000 followers on Twitter. A few times per day, he tweets about products on Amazon.com with an Amazon Affiliate link in them. Ebert makes about 7% cut from each person that buys a product after following that Amazon Affiliate link. Ebert said he is not interested in making money through sponsored tweets. “No tweet of mine is or ever has been ‘spnsored’ or paid. Every tweet is my own doing. I will never, ever, have a sponsored Twitter account. … I write every single word on my Twitter account, and everything else under my name.” [Poynter]

Panasonic has announced 5 new camcorders. The camcorders are the HM-TA20, HM-TA2, HX-WA10, HX-DC10, and HX-DC1. Below are the specs of the camcorders.
- HM-TA20 – The HM-TA20 is a Flip-like camera with a lens on one side and an LCD on the other side. It can do 1080p footage, but does not do optical zooming. It also has 3 meters of waterproof protection and records at 15fps.
- HM-TA2 – The HM-TA2 is like the TA20 but it has slightly less features. But The TA2 has comes with a tripod.
- HX-WA10 – The WA10 is water-proof, shock-proof, and dust-proof. It can take 16 megapixel pictures and record at 1080p. It has a pistol-like grip and can flip-out. It has a 3 inch LCD to view the video.
- HX-DC10 – This is just like the WA10, but it is not waterproof, dust-proof, or shock-proof.
- HX-DC1 – The HX-DC1 can take 14 megapixel pictures and it has a 3-inch LCD. But it is not touchscreen.
[Engadget]

Vitrue is a social media management company that has raised $17 million in Series C funding. Scale Venture Partners and Advent Venture Partners led this round of funding. Existing investors General Catalyst Ventures, Comcast Interactive, and Dance Ventures also participated. Some of Vitrue’s customers include Ford, Intel, MTV, Best Buy, and McDonald’s. Vitrue will be using the funding for expansion. [Mashable]

Earlier this week Jon Stewart decided to poke fun at IBM Watson and the Angry Birds game in the same segment. Check out the video below:

Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is rumored to be in talks to acquire SinglePlatform. SinglePlatform encourages restaurants to enter menus, events, etc. from their computer or phone and the company automatically updates the restaurants’ social media pages and websites. SinglePlatform charges restaurants a one-time fee of $99. SinglePlatform raised $1.2 million in seed round funding led by First Round Capital. It is believed that Google wants to see how fast SinglePlatform can go mainstream before the acquisition takes place. [BusinessInsider]

VoIP Inc. is suing Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) in the New York Supreme Court on Monday. VoIP is accusing Google of stealing trade secrets related to online voice technology. The litigation is related to a September 2005 contract. VoIP subsidiary VoiceOne Communications Corp. agreed to license Google with their “Click to Call” technology. This allows Internet users to call advertisers by clicking a link on a website. VoIP is currently going through bankruptcy proceedings. Google is saying that they terminated the agreement in 2007 due to the company violating a nondisclosure agreement revealing that the search engine company was a client. [Reuters]

Bill Clinton spoke at the Wired for Change conference in New York. While there he joked about how much of a techie he was in office. “I sent a grand total of two emails as president,” said Clinton. “When he took office in ’93, he added, there were about 50 sites on the Internet, and cell phones were so heavy that they were best used for bicep curls.” He sent one e-mail to the troops in the Adriatic and one to John Glenn when he was 77 years old in outer space. [Fast Company]

This past week on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert decided to bash on News Corp’s The Daily iPad newspaper. Colbert said he was impressed by the product and said it offers “all the convenience of using your iPad to read the news online, but without the Internet’s annoying habit of being completely free.” Colbert also pointed out that The Daily is being praised by all of the media that is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Check out the video below.