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Twitter Inc.’s co-founders say the rapidly growing online communications company will eventually charge fees for its services, but it’s unclear which ones and what will drive revenue.

“There will be a moment when you can fill out a form or something and give us money,” said Evan Williams, co-founder and chief executive officer.

“We’re working on it right now,” Williams said at The Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference.

Williams and Twitter co-founder Biz Stone mentioned possible revenue-generators, including a service that would authenticate the source of information. For example, Dunkin’ Donuts could pay to make sure that impostors don’t send messages under its name.

Still, after nearly one hour of questions from journalists Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher and from the audience, the co-founders gave no clear picture of Twitter’s business model. Stone demurred when asked what would be the company’s key revenue driver in two years.

Williams said he wasn’t opposed to banner advertising but was unenthusiastic.

“I think it’s probably the least interesting thing we could do,” he said.

Williams said one of his top priorities was hiring more people to help grow the company but he didn’t give a headcount target. San Francisco-based Twitter has 43 employees, he said, double its count in January.

Twitter allows anyone to write about what they’re doing or what’s on their mind in messages sent through the Web or cell phones, also known as “tweets,” which are limited to 140 characters. The unconventional, free service has attracted millions of users.

The co-founders said they know the hype surrounding Twitter won’t last forever.

“If you pay attention to it too much, you can run yourself off the rails,” Stone said. He added, “Pretty soon, everybody’s going to hate us.”

The privately held company has been a subject of buyout speculation by a big technology company, but Williams said he believed Twitter would remain independent.

According to AppleiPhoneApps.com, the new Apple’s device is rumored to go on sale July 17. The site also predicts that the $199 and $299 price tags will remain.

Through its very own Deep Throat–aka a source who is “closely connected to Apple’s hardware development team”–the Web site posted some details on just what the third-generation iPhone will offer. What’s more, it names Friday, July 17, as the release date.

We can’t verify anything right now, but some of the predictions make more sense than others. A July 17 release date is very plausible. Both the iPhone Classic and the iPhone 3G went on sale on Fridays (June 29, 2007, and July 11, 2008, respectively). Apple likes to respect tradition.

John Gruber of DaringFireball.net, who knows people who know people — no names! — has weighed in with his opinion on what we just might see from Apple in terms of a next generation iPhone at WWDC 2009.

July release with roughly double the CPU power, digital compass, better camera with video shooting + editing, and 16GB/32GB SKUs.

Same $199/$299 price point, 256MB of RAM

Better battery life

iTablet at WWDC

iPhone mini at WWDC.

We’re guessing that’s soft affirmation from him on both the iTablet and iPhone mini/nano, just not yet.

Pretty much in line with all the other rumors, so consider this just more weight on the scales.

Okay, yeah, I rocked a Sega Genesis back in the day, which is perhaps not coincidentally the last platform where Sonic the Hedgehog was really done well.

Can the iPhone version [$5.99 - iTunes link] make me eat those words, or at least spin me around on them faster than Yoda in a lightsaber duel? Let’s see, Sega does say it’ll make me relive my fondest memories from the Genesis era…

• Blast through Seven Zones including classics as Green Hill Zone and Labyrinth Zone, as well as the Special Stages in an attempt to collect the Chaos Emeralds!
• Classic 2-D Sonic experience on the go for the first time on the iPhone and iTouch!
• Pick-up-and-play accessibility: Play in Full Screen or classic “Arcade” look and play with just the touch of a button.

Give it a try!

Nanotechnology seems to be more and more popular these days. Maybe many of you don’t know what is nanotechnology yet.

What is nanotechnology?

Nanotechnology is the engineering of functional systems at the molecular scale. Nanotechnology works with something in the nanometers scale (about one trillionth of centimeters). We uses nanotechnology to build machines in the molecular scale. A few nanometers wide machine or devices, an incredible machine or devices, even better than normal machine or devices with normal scale.

Nanotechnology nowadays is used for building a very small devices with a lot of function. As an example, flashdisks, laptops, etc. As we know, flashdisks are getting smaller and smaller now, while the capacity are larger and larger. How can they do that? The answer is nanotechnology. Laptops nowadays are getting smaller too, or even processors for computers.

Nanotechnology is very useful to build a new technology, or even new discoveries in health and medical. But, nanotechnology is a double edge blade, where it can harm ourselves because things in nanometers scale will behave different and agressive, while in the other way it will help us to discover a more useful technology.

From what seems to be a questionable post from a forum poster at a Chinese site, it seems that the 3rd generation iPhone may be a small upgrade. So far, the features unveiled are:

Yesterday in an abnormal release schedule, Apple released iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 5, just 8 days after the release of Beta 4. This is most likely due to the upcoming World Wide Developers Conference in early June as Apple needs to complete the OS’s feature set. This Beta 5 seems to be more critical because they released it in no time after the release of Beta 4. In any case, Beta 5 is released & should any surprises occur, we’ll let you know.

I finally learn how to do the killer iPhone application : Instapaper.

Here’s what it does:

You sign up for an account at Instapaper.com (free) then add a bookmarklet to your browser called “Read Later”. Then when you find yourself staring down a long online article that you’d really like to read - but not right now - you click the button.

Clicking the button snags the article on the page, takes out a lot of the junk (ads and images depending on how you’ve set it up), and stores the copy in your Instapaper account.

Now, you can access those articles a number of different ways:

1. Via the web.

2. Via a smartphone’s browser (the articles are very mobile friendly compared to many of their original sources).

3. Or, via the iPhone app which syncs down a copy of your stored articles.

#3 is the one that convinced me that I needed an iPod Touch. My best catch-up time for longer articles is on planes, and the Instapaper App makes it easy to gather and consume the content during those hours.

There is a free and paid version ($9.99) of the app. I went with the paid because it offers more flexibility on fonts, night reading, and has a very cool tilt-to-scroll feature where you can gently tilt the iPhone back a bit to scroll the article - a great one-hand feature.

After my first Instapaper-enabled flight this week, I’m sold on this new workflow for processing longer online content.

Well, do you like music? I could say that almost all people loved to listen to music. Music can refresh your brain when you’re depressed with your jobs and you will enjoy music so much in many situation. You will express your feeling in music, when you’re angry, when you’re happy, or even when you’re broken heart. Music is the only thing you could run into when you’re in a trouble.

Good news for you, many researchs said that music can make someone IQs higher and their brain will more productive because of music. Many woman nowadays hear classical music when they’re pregnant. Music can stimulate the baby’s brain so the baby will born healthy and smart. In other case, most of the musician are smart, creative and productive because of music. Music is a part of their life.

Well, for music lovers, sure it isn’t complete if you go to everywhere without any music you could hear to. Mp3 players nowadays are more easy to use and you can take it everywhere you go. You can try zune mp3 player, they have many advantages and they have cool designs. There are also new zune that you could try to buy.