Unthink , the social networking platform whose marketing campaign involves a lot of Facebook bashing , has reached 100,000 registered users, the company is now reporting. As you may recall, the site quickly crashed after TechCrunch sent its usual heavy stream of traffic to the network, and it took Unthink over a day to recover.

Have you had your share of augmented reality this month? Between CMU’s OmniTouch , Microsoft’s HoloDesk , and Metaio’s updated AR app , you could be forgiven.

Few devices have inspired a following quite as devoted as the Galaxy Nexus , and those fans will be glad to know that a recently leaked Verizon document pegs Samsung and Google’s latest collaboration with a post-Black Friday launch window.

You may not have heard of Tandem Entrepreneurs , the incubator and capital fund that officially launched in July, but for entrepreneurs focused on the mobile space, they’re worth checking out. What’s different about Tandem, as we wrote in July , is that founders Doug Renert and Sunil Bhargava don’t consider themselves VCs. Instead, they’ve brought together a host of entrepreneurs with decades of startup experience among them to provide resources in an incubator that specifically targets early-stage mobile startups

Depending on who you talk to, the fact that you need a light to read e-paper-based e-readers like the Kindle is either a strength or a weakness. It’s become part of the branding , after all: “just like real paper!” But with increasing competition from LCD-based devices , it might be that E-Ink and its many clients will need to level the playing field.

After the company’s former CEO Bob Kimball resigned in March of this year, RealNetworks has announced that its board of directors has named Thomas Nielsen as its new president and chief executive officer. Nielsen, who will also become a member of its Board of Directors, starts at RealNetworks on November 9th.

The so-called PROTECT IP act , sequel to the much-criticized COICA , is under fire again as it enters the process of becoming law. We’ve talked about it on this blog before and no doubt the discussion will continue after it passes or is rejected, but it’s important at this critical moment that everyone concerned weigh in and make an unambiguous statement regarding the quality of this bill. So then: PROTECT IP is a lunatic proposal, penned by a dinosauric industry concerned solely with the preservation of its own profits.

AdKnowledge , a marketplace that connects advertisers with inventory in the display, casual games, mobile, email and affiliate channels has  acquired Facebook Ads API tool and managed spend service provider AdParlor . The acquisition will see AdParlor’s entire 20-person team, managed spend service, and licensable tool integrated into AdKnowledge, which will now be able to offer placement in the Facebook ads sidebar to its clients. AdParlor had grown to become possibly the largest Ads API vendor, handling 1 billion impressions a day despite being completely bootstrapped.

We were half-expecting to see the Xoom 2 officially break cover at Motorola’s Droid RAZR launch event (especially since some incriminating photos of the tab leaked just prior to it), but according to the latest Carphone Warehouse buyer’s guide, the Xoom 2 should make its debut in time for the holidays.

Last year, Twitter debuted a marketing campaign , called Twitter Tales , that showcased ways in which users interact with the microblogging platform.