This week's Twitter column is about a very intriguing survey by Neicole Crepeau . She surveyed 336 Internet users asking them several questions about their Twitter usage and perception. The most note-worthy finding is that most of those who have quit Twitter did it out of boredom . At the same time these people didn't use Twitter in a way that made Twitter interesting in the first place.

Over the past three weeks, I've been to SES London 2010 , OMS 2010 in San Diego, and SMX West 2010 in Santa Clara. As The Grateful Dead would say, "What a long strange trip it's been." Click to read the rest of this post.

Google seems to be prepping up its online collaboration and cloud computing tools - Google Docs for the big league. Just recently, Google Docs supported uploading fo files from your computer and sharing that files with people you collaborate with via Google Docs. Now, something good is about to happen with Google's cloud computing service - that is interoperability with Microsoft Office files. To make this happen, Google just bought DocVerse .

Not too many years ago, threads on online forums would often have titles like "New Ferrari Pics (56K users, make coffee)" as a way of warning people with slow connections that they'd be stuck for a while. Now, Tom's Hardware has established which modern Web browsers will slow folks down - and which won't. Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari were pitted against each other in a test focused purely on speed and performance. Startup times, memory usage,

by Mike Krumboltz Air travel is rarely eventful. And that's a good thing â?" the less exciting the flight, the better. However, this past week, flyers were given a bit of a jolt after hearing tapes of a child speaking with pilots over the control-tower radio. Elsewhere, former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin paid a visit to "The Tonight Show," where she did something unexpected: standup comedy. It was a weird, weird week in the Buzz,

by Claudine Zap Just when the Democrats were ducking for cover over a scandal-filled week (Gov. David Paterson and Rep. Charles Rangel , please stand up), a Republican swoops in with his own problem. And, well, a woman isn't one of them. The California State Senator Roy Ashburn was arrested for a DUI violation. That's not all. The government official was in a state-owned car. That definitely doesn't look good.

We had a great time at the SMX West conference this past week in Santa Clara, CA. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer kicked things off with his keynote speech, where he addressed several questions on the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance. Yahoo! participated in several different panels throughout the week, including Thursday's keynote "The State off the Search Union" roundtable featuring David Roth, Director of Search Engine Marketing.