California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had his flight, uh, terminated on Friday evening when the cockpit of his jet filled with smoke.
The plane, en route to Santa Monica Airport, instead touched down at Van Nuys Airport after the pilot reported the smoke coming from the instruments.
Schwarzenegger, who has been TwitPic-ing many of his trips around [...]

Real-time search engines made our list as one of the top 5 Twitter related trends to watch, not only because the demand for these tools has increased, but also because we’re seeing services like Tweetmeme and OneRiot innovate at lightning speed in this space.

Collecta, which launches today, is also tackling real-time search, but their search engine uses XMPP technology and works to keep pace with information as it happens — faster than we’ve ever seen before — on blogs, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, news sites, and various other social sites.

Recently, a baker’s dozen of product designers convened to show the impressive potential within an also-ran material.

Lately, at design fairs around the world, one new trend has crept to the fore: the design jam, for lack of a better word. Resembling a cross between a church lock-in and Project Runway, the idea is to gather a bunch of creative minds, give them a challenge and set them loose. At the Milan Furniture Fair, we saw the Craft Punk exhibition; recently, at DMY Berlin, there was Open Process, an exhibition put on by Transalpino, a sprawling design collective whose members hail from Germany and Italy.

1. Rich Ross, President, Disney Channels Worldwide
A lifelong TV addict, Ross has expanded Disney’s channels beyond the box into film, radio, mobile, and online. But he’ll be remembered most for unleashing Hannah Montana and High School Musical on the world.

2. James Schamus, Chief executive officer, Focus Features
In addition to being a CEO, he’s a veteran screenwriter, Columbia University film professor, producer, marketer, distributor, and sometime composer. Schamus, 49, cofounded Focus in 2002, which has produced Oscar winners Milk and Lost in Translation. Coming soon: Taking Woodstock, Schamus’s latest screenplay for director Ang Lee.

It seems like everyday someone has a great idea regarding Android. Sometimes it’s software related, while other times it’s completely new hardware but the fact of the matter is, people are using Android as a tool to take chances, showcase the future, and hopefully in turn–revolutionize the entire mobile market.