More revenue for Twitter is on the way, The Wall Street Journalreports. The microblogging service is finally confirming the age-old theory that it will start selling commercial accounts to "power users" or companies using the service. In the report, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone notes that the company recently hired a product manager to develop these new corporate accounts. "This makes perfect sense," says Silicon Alley Insider's Dan Frommer. "There's a lot of stuff companies would pay Twitter for, such as a way to verify the company rep's legitimacy; to more analytics and information about who is reading their …

In a blog post, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone compares its "Suggested Users" list to a series of "staff picks" at a local bookstore, but later reveals that the process of choosing the list is a great deal more complicated than that. It all starts with an algorithm created by Twitter's chief scientist. Then, Stone and some members of Twitter's product team filter out anyone that shouldn't be on it. The list then goes through one final "gut check" before being sent out to users. So, what can Twitter users do to be picked up by the algorithm? "Really, it seems …

Serial entrepreneur Steve Perlman's latest tech company idea, unveiled this week at the Game Developers Conference, "is a doozy" that just might change the video game business forever, says Forbes writer Brian Caulfield. The idea is simple enough: Move video games online and give players access to the latest games on cheap computers and even cheaper "microconsoles", which Caulfield says would be no bigger than a pack of cigarettes. Perlman claims that OnLive, his new company, would be able to deliver high quality games on any TV with one of these "microconsoles" or on any laptop via a broadband connection. …

A new study from NeoEdge finds that ads on casual gaming sites lift brand awareness. According to the results, ads NeoEdge ran for Zappos resulted in 56% of users having a favorable impression of the brand while having a three to five times increase in awareness for Zappos new offerings in men's clothing. "There is a receptiveness to these type of ads because (consumers are) getting to play the game for free," said Peter Manickas, director of research at Frank Magid Associates, which conducted the study for NeoEdge. "It really improved people's impressions." The NeoEdge study collected 2,000 responses from …