Obviously this weekend's basketball obsession meant a lot of us couldn't keep up on what turned out to be an incredibly newsworthy few days. Keeping with the NCAA theme, here's the Final Four top social media stories from this past weekend:
- No. 1 Seed - AT&T-Mobile: Hands down, the biggest story of the weekend (if not the entire month) was Sunday's news of AT&T acquiring T-Mobile for $39 billion. This merger will catapult AT&T past the current top mobile carrier Verizon's 100 million U.S. subscribers with a combined 130 million subscribers. There are sure to be some major mobile shakeups in the coming months, including a possible T-Mobile iPhone in the future (although it's apparently not in the immediate plans).
- No. 2 Seed - Kevin Rose Ditches Digg: Kevin Rose's resignation from Digg shouldn't come as too much of a surprise considering I, like many social media pundits, wrote Digg off over a month ago. However, Rose had still established himself as the face of Digg and became bigger than just his startup like Mark Zuckerberg and Dennis Crowley, so it's still strange to see them part ways.
- No. 3 Seed - AP Stylebook Finally De-hyphenates Email: Okay, this may not seem like a huge deal, but any of us who use the AP Stylebook day in and day out can finally stop arguing with the big ol' book of grammatical rules everytime it told us to hyphenate 'email' when spelling it out.
- No. 4 Seed - Android-ifying Amazon: A New York Times post surfaced on Friday that points out the slew of recent Android programmer hirings by Amazon over the past few months, and ponders the likelihood of Amazon releasing a more tablet-style Amazon Kindle that would feature full color and multi-touch controls.
So there are your Final Four top social media and tech stories from a very busy weekend. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a March Madness bracket to double-check.