Microsoft’s announcement of its deal to buy Skype was the subject of the most news links shared via Twitter for the week of May 9-13, while the breakup of Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger barely edged the death of Osama Bin Laden in the blogosphere, and the most-watched news and politics video on YouTube was President Barack Obama speaking at the 2011 White House Correspondents Dinner, according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism’s New Media Index.
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Media outlets including ABC News, CNN, BBC, ITV, and Sky incorporated Twitter into their coverage of the Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton last Friday, and Chloe Sladden of Twitter’s media team highlighted some of the ways Twitter and TV worked together in a post on the Twitter Media blog.
The Royal Wedding—the most anticipated wedding of the century—is almost here and excitement is in the air and we’ve put together a collection of videos to celebrate the event, from parodies to royal wedding dresses to the royal wedding cake!
GetGlue has two dates for Friday’s Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, as the entertainment-based sticker-awarding social network announced agreements with NBC News/MSNBC and TLC.
ABC News Digital is undergoing the final alterations to its wardrobe of Royal Wedding coverage, which will include an exclusive digital-only show with Yahoo!, a Twitter feed, coverage on Facebook, and an enhanced video eBook.
Didn’t make the cut for the Royal Wedding guest list? Fear not: Yahoo! has you covered. The Royal Wedding website, which launched Monday, is an extension of women’s lifestyle site Shine from Yahoo!.
Voting is now under way for the Second Annual iVillage Entertainment Awards, which encourages visitors to the NBC Universal-owned women’s online destination to choose their favorites in categories including “Sexiest On-Screen Chemistry,” “Man You’d Trade Your Husband For,” “Most Welcome Celebrity Comeback,” “Star Who Makes Us Proud to Be a Woman,” “Female Star You’d Want as Your BFF,” and “Cutest Celebrity Mini-Me.”
The complete list of categories and nominations is available here, along with video, celebrity picks, and an interview with iVillage entertainment editor Serena Kappes, who said:
iVillage Entertainment is celebrating its best year yet, with traffic increasing in the triple-digits. As a go-to resource for everything Hollywood, we’re excited to bring celebrity news, gossip, and exclusive interviews to our soaring online community of millions. We know that our iVillage women can’t get enough of Angelina Jolie, The Real Housewives franchise, and Robert Pattinson, hate to love Snooki, and are fascinated with Prince William and Kate Middleton‘s ultra-fabulous wedding. Our awards recognize the conversations that these stars, shows, and movies have jump-started.
Winners will be announced Feb. 22.
Their romance started even before Twitter was founded. Eight years later, the royal family issued the official statement through Twitter: Prince William is engaged to Kate Middleton, who is now wearing the late Princess Diana’s ring. As former hopefuls around the world react to the big news (#royalwedding, Prince William, and Kate Middleton have all been top trending topics since the announcement), here are some of the most bitter tweets that have emerged. Read more
