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Imagine telling your entire study group you found the cheat sheet for the test in the Dumpster outside the Science Hall, with one click of the button. Or letting your girlfriends know that Margarita Happy Hour is happen’ right now at some filthy bar down by the docks – without texting each and everyone individually.

With Tatango, you can send ad-sponsored SMS texts to entire groups for free. Leave voice messages en masse. Even upgrade to business class options so you can stretch your legs a bit and get a complimentary vodka tonic while you holler at your homies through a super-streamlined messaging platform.

The site and service, formerly known as networkText, has gained traction with sports teams, schools, celebs and even churches, according to Tatango. There is also a blog, Twitter page and Facebook profile.

Written up in everything from The Wall Street Journal, CNN, TechCrunch, to PCWorld, Tatango is a breeze to register for. My only question is this: Will I really use Tatango? I see and understand the practical application, but my phone (an iPhone), already allows me to send text to multiple peeps. Sure, Tatango can save me multiple keystrokes when I’m talking trash to my fantasy football team and want to spare my arthritic thumbs the pain of typing on my tiny keyboard, but I imagine the time savings is just seconds.

I guess that’s just where we are in today’s uber-hustle-and-bustle encironment: Seconds are everything.

Looking for Twitter apps? Maybe a new way to tweet or a better way to keep track of your followers? Twitter Little Star is a huge aggregated library of all things Twitter. From apps to plugins to website tools, it’s cataloged everything.

This is a great find and one that we at Rev2 (@rev2 on twitter) have been going through with a fine toothed comb, hoping to find the best of the best. We’re Twitaholics around here, for sure. So this site is a gold mine.

Even if you’re just an occasional Twit, though, there’s some great stuff to be found on TwitterLittleStar. It’s a great resource and definitely worth looking at whether you’re a full on Twitter Maniac or a casual Twitster.

The home page shows the latest additions to the database, while the most popular links (ones site visitors have linked through to for download) are featured in a column. Our witer Aaron’s favorite, TwitterFox, is listed there, at the top. A great browser plugin.

You can stay on the front page and surf through the apps in the order they were submitted to the site, you can search directly for an app by name or type/category, and you can submit apps that aren’t there for inclusion. At the bottom is a categories list where you can find what you’re looking for by category.

Overall, this is a great site and a totally awesome find. As a teaser, we’ll be doing a “Our Favorite Twitter Apps” lineup in an upcoming feature here, so stay tuned.

GigaOM is reporting that the new leaders in browsing and Web apps are Firefox, Facebook, and Twitter.  This data comes from site usage tracker Wakoopa, an Amsterdam-based company whose numbers many will say are skewed due to the way they’re gathered.

While this might be true, the main numbers–for browsers and major sites–are close to what other well-known statistics munchers like W3Schools are reporting.  While Wakoopa’s numbers are probably tilted more towards geekdom, the average Internet user is not too far behind in terms of what browser they prefer and what sites they tend to visit.

Here are the Web apps in rank, according to Wakoopa’s latest release:

The numbers are fairly close to what you’ll see at other Web stat generators, although the split between Firefox and IE is nearly 50/50 amongst average Internet users worldwide.  The Opera numbers are interesting, though they are primarily European users, it turns out.  No matter who you ask, Facebook, Gmail, and Google are the top dogs site-wise.

Twitter and some of the apps built to support it, like Tweetdeck and Twhirl, are gaining ground amongst users too.  According to Wakoopa, the Mac app Destroy Twitter is most popular on that platform.  For Web browsing, Firefox and Internet Explorer still rule the roost in their classic rivalry, but upstart Google Chrome is making headway while Opera has a core crowd of dedicated users.

Wakoopa’s report also shows that those under 30 are having issues with trust when it comes to trusting “old-school” apps like IE, preferring alternatives instead.

Overall, the data from Wakoopa is interesting, though someone slanted.  Most interesting to note is the slow movement away from traditional browsers into newer alternatives and the fact that one of the top sites on the Web is now a social networking site rather than a search engine.

Pretty soon, the leading language will be 1337 instead of English, if this trend keeps up.

USA Today is reporting that Apple is in serious talks with Verizon Wireless about a possible iPhone for Verizon’s CDMA network.  Apple’s exclusivity deal with AT&T ends in 2010.

While AT&T might attempt to persuade Apple to renew the exclusivity deal, it’s up to question whether Apple would be better served if they did so.  Right now, the iPhone accounts for a large part of AT&T’s customer base.  As much as 40% of new customers to AT&T are iPhone users.

Roger Entner, Nielsen rating’s head of telecom research, says that linking with Verizon would give Apple another 80 million potential customers.  “It would finally give customers a choice, and choice is a good thing.”

The differences between the two carriers’ networks would also come into play.  While AT&T’s network is generally perceived as faster, Verizon’s is considered more reliable.  So the jumping from one to the other could be common–and probably into Verizon’s favor, Entner says, unless AT&T beefs up their network to increase coverage.

Either way, Apple is sitting pretty on this one.  It’s likely that AT&T will offer much better terms for Apple to stay and that a move to Verizon would mean that anyone leaving AT&T for the new network would also have to get a new phone.  Win-win for Apple.

Have you recently received your walking papers? If so, LaidOffCamp Miami organizers and participating employers have marching orders for you: Don’t take it sitting down. LaidOffCamp Miami is sponsored by VOIS.com (pronounced “Voice”) a publicly traded, social commerce Web company that combines the power of social networking with an online marketplace for professional freelance and on-demand services.

Listening to the retread job search advice dished daily on “Good Morning America” and bolding your resume font simply isn’t enough to catch employers’ attention when you’re vying for a new gig against an army of unemployed peers. These days you need to make real live connections that count, which is why job seekers and freelancers are heading to LaidOffCamp Miami armed with assertive energy and a proactive plan. The free one-day Miami event will take place Saturday, June 6 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Brikolodge at Midtown 4 (See a map here: http://tr.im/iT9V).

With Florida’s jobless rate teetering toward 10 percent — the highest rate since 1975 — employer touch points are more valuable than ever in this high and dry economy. LaidOffCamp Miami’s savvy staff and employers will give you proven insights for successfully leveraging these opportunities. Whether you’re looking to network with those in your field, reinvent or recycle your career, LaidOffCamp is specifically catering to entry-to-midlevel career paths in the following industries: Digital media, advertising, publishing, technology and financial service professionals.

LaidOffCamp Miami is modeled after the successful BarCamp conferences — an international network of user-generated workshops on an eclectic range of topics — and will include all-access discussion forums, panels and workshops designed to educate, empower and connect community members who are experiencing challenges in the tough and gritty economy. LaidOffCamp Miami will reveal networking competitive advantages to participants, by exposing expert insights on building your personal brand, the ins and outs of starting your own biz, how to find alternative workspace, finding affordable insurance and alternative income sources, such as freelancing and consulting.

Also, if you’re an employer looking for skilled and ambitious workers, you’ll find a windfall of top candidates — and get real-world solutions for fitting freelancers and consultants into your business model.

After attracting worldwide media attention and hundreds of job seekers when the inaugural LaidOffCamp laid its stakes in San Francisco, the events are already attracting thousands of job seekers and employers, and are touring cities across the country and world this spring and summer. Additional sponsorships are still available. Media partners include: sCommerce.com, Rev2.org (Yay for us!)

Visit http://laidoffcampmiami09.eventbrite.com/ to register, learn more about the event at http://laidoffcampmiami.org/, and look for updates on Twitter at www.twitter.com/LaidOffCampMIA or contact http://laidoffcampmiami.org/contact/comment-page-1/#comment-2

Fans of iGoogle have probably noticed a new little widget on their screens when they log in.  It’s called “What’s Popular” and it’s basically a Digg or StumbleUpon clone.  It allows you to submit links/pages either publicly or anonymously and rate other people’s submissions up or down in kind.

Google says it “uses algorithms to find interesting content from a combination of your submissions and trends in aggregated user activity across a variety of Google services, like YouTube and Google Reader.”

The widget is actually very cool and functional, though whether it will be able to get more popular than Digg is still up to question.  When you click on the What’s Popular link to maximize it, an expanded view with sorted entries by type (page, picture, video, etc.) is shown.

Google is slowly, but surely moving into the social media game and this widget is their next step.  I’m all for this so long as they don’t ruin their core service: search.  Micro Persuasion thinks that Google will eventually be much like Windows Live in correlating friends’ content together.

On a side note, congratulations to Larry Page and his family.  It’s been announced that his wife is pregnant and that they’re due for their first baby this fall.