In an attempt to release the news of Osama bin Laden’s death quickly late Sunday night, MSNBC correspondent Norah O’Donnell accidentally reported on Twitter that “Obama” had been “killed” instead of Osama. Big whoops there.

“Obama shot and killed,” Norah O’Donnell posted on Twitter, citing NBC Chief Pentagon Correspondent Jim Miklaszewski as her source.

This just goes to show that even professionals make mistakes. Good thing her tweet didn’t go viral or there could have been some major rumors to fix.

A new startup known as Likester offers a searchable database of what has been “liked” on Facebook. A little more than a year ago, Facebook launched the “Like” button with great success, as millions of Web sites have now installed it. However, there really isn’t any way to search what is being “liked” across the social-networking site, which could be very valuable data for brands or just a way for consumers to check on what is popular with their friends.A new Seattle-based startup launched last week is seeking to fill this void. Users can view both what’s popular among their friends and what’s popular with everyone on Facebook. The Friends and Everyone sections rank the lists of liked items by what’s most popular, but you can also filter the results by any of the 50 offered categories. Likester can be a great tool for anyone to see what is trending. Hopefully companies can utilize this info to bring the consumers what they want.

The website Mashable would like to help people who are interested in social media find a job in that field. On their site under jobs listing section, is a list which gathers all of their resources to post job openings. This is an excellent resource for people who are trying get their foot in the door. Its appealing because there is no cost and anyone can look or apply for the jobs. Below is a link to the classifieds section which holds all of the job postings. On the site there are filter setting to help narrow your search.

http://jobs.mashable.com/a/jbb/find-jobs

The world’s biggest car manufacturer and software company plan to work together to create positive synergism. Collectively they are looking to invest a total of $1 billion dollars to develop an in car electronics system to allow Toyota’s battery-powered vehicles to run more efficiently.

Toyota is also looking to improve data, navigation, in car entertainment, multi media and most importantly energy usage. The companies are supposed to be finished by 2012 and have the system implemented in a series of electric and hybrid cars. This will improve the companies’ image with consumers due to their effort to push for more energy efficient cars. The collaborative news comes at a perfect time, considering the recent spike in oil prices. Now when people are thinking about purchasing a new vehicle, miles per gallon will be an even greater deciding issue. By Toyota using the best software company, it will distinguish themselves from all other competitors.

After 9/11, every citizen became familiar with the color coded terrorism alert system. Different colors represent different levels of threat towards America from terrorists. From the low green level to the highest color of risk, red, the color system lost its potency with me since other alert system such as the air quality of the world system has a comparable color coated system.

Now the government has switched its ranking system from the five option, to a two choice level of warning- Elevated or Imminent. Here’s the kicker, the government has also noticed how important Facebook and Twitter has become. Instead of simply posting the warning levels on news stations, starting April 27th, the government will use the social media giants to effectively spread the warnings. Hopefully this will spread the news faster and more efficiently to the people of this great country.