HOW TO: Get retweeted on Twitter – Getting retweeted on Twitter is a great way to gain more followers. It turns out there is a science behind getting retweeted. Here are a couple of take home points from this excellent post:

• People like links — Tweets with links in them are much more likely to be retweeted.
• Complex tweets get retweeted — This may seem counter-intuitive, but tweets that require a higher reading level are more likely to get retweeted. Don’t try to make your tweets more complex to get them retweeted, but rather, don’t dumb down your tweets either.

This post over at Mashable also has a bunch of sexy charts and graphs.

ReportingOn 2.0 is live — Creator Ryan Sholin dubs it as “the backchannel for your beat.” Here are some excerpts from Sholin’s post announcing the new version:

For those of you who haven’t been keeping score, ReportingOn is a project funded by the Knight News Challenge, and it’s a place for journalists of all stripes to find peers with experience dealing with a particular topic, story, or source.

You can ‘watch’ users, beats, or a particular question, viewing everything in an activity feed that brings you the latest questions and answers from the journalists, topics, and particular issues you’re interested in.

We’ll have in-depth coverage of ReportingOn 2.0 soon. But I strongly encourage journalists to check it out ASAP.

Google enhances Gmail labeling with drag and drop feature, retires right-side labels — I’m on the record as saying that Gmail is the best e-mail solution around, especially for work. It’s powerful search features alone make it great, but Google keeps improving Gmail, making it even more irresistible for content producers:

Of the more innovative features that has been added is the ability to drag and drop messages into labels, just like you can with folders. You can also drag labels onto messages too. It’s also possible to drag labels into the “more” menu to hide them, making it easier to change labels than going to the Settings function. This feature is huge for those people who complain about Gmail not having some of the drag and drop features of Outlook.

Facebook for iPhone 3.0 Coming Soon – Preview and Details — The biggest take away from this story is that nearly 25 percent of iPhone users us the Facebook app. That’s simply staggering.

The Facebook app is quite good, and it’s probably one reason why the network is growing much faster than the faltering MySpace. In addition, the new Facebook app looks incredibly good. Later this summer, the Facebook app will be getting push notifications.

Facebook started as a Web site, but it has moved into other grounds, like mobile apps. This is a lesson that content producers, journalists, newspapers and others should take to heart. Just because you start doing one thing, doesn’t mean you can’t do something else (especially something that is the logical next step).

Twitter increases API limit to 150 –This is huge news for Twitter users who use Twitter clients. Before, power users would run out of API calls (it was set at 100) and would have to wait for their API limit to reset every hour. This increase certainly makes clients like TweetDeck even more irresistible for work purposes.