What You're Watching: MTV's New Show with Facebook and Twitter

Social media is all the rage and traditional music television formats are dead in the water. So why not bring these two worlds together to try something new? That's exactly what MTV's latest show proposes to do. ...

Minister advises UK to distance itself from US foreign policy

The British social cohesion minister has said the UK must distance itself from the US foreign policy to prevent the growth of hatred against Britain in the Pakistani youths."LONDON: The UK must distance itself from the US foreign policy if the Pakistani youths are to be...

Moldova's Twitter Revolution: an inside look

As the uprising in Moldova continues, protesters are using social networking tools such as Twitter, LiveJournal, and Facebook to coordinate their protests and decide what is their next move. It seems as if many in...

Quarter of state databases "should be scrapped"

" Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:29am GMT  LONDON (Reuters) - A quarter of government databases in Britain should be scrapped or redesigned because they are fundamentally flawed and probably illegal, a report from a social...

The Ever Rising Health Care Cost, has to be Cut off Now.

By, Uwe Paschen.  The ever rising Health care cost of the Social Democracies such as Japan, Germany, Sweden and to a certain extend even Canada is putting public health care in serious jeopardy. Last week I took...

Judge Kicks Notorious Spammer Off Facebook

A judge in California on Monday ordered convicted spammer Sanford 'Spamford' Wallace to stay away from Facebook.  Wallace is accused of flooding Facebook users with unsolicited messages, which appear to...

Does India need Facebook?

I know nothing about sex because I was always married. - Zsa Zsa Gabor With due respect - and with a slight twist while keeping the flavour: "We know everything about social networking because we were never social." I’d like to dedicate my...

Online networking 'harms health' ?

Has the rise in the use of social networking had a negative or positive effect on our lives? " Dr Aric Sigman says websites such as Facebook set out to enrich social lives, but end up keeping people apart. Dr...

New Zealand’s Internet blackout against new copyright law: Day 1

New Zealand’s Internet users are fighting against a new law set to tighten copyright restrictions by holding an Internet blackout February 16 to 23. Protesters, led by The Creative Freedom Foundation, claim New...

Facebook clocks fifth birthday

With news of financial crisis,  Facebook,  which was founded in a colleage dorm and now ranks world's most popular social networking site,  has completed 5 years of its life. Questions about...

Myanmar, Thailand cooperate in weather forecasting

Myanmar and Thailand are cooperating technically in promoting Myanmar's weather forecasting and rehabilitation work in cyclone-hit areas, the New Light of Myanmar reported on Jan. 23."The cooperation is being carried out between Myanmar's Department of Meteorology and...

Facebook Game Scrabulous: It's Back as Lexulous!

Good news for all Scrabulous fans - it's back on Facebook!  It's pretty much the same, except it's now named Lexulous, and for those of us playing it when it went off last summer, our unfinished games,...

UNHAPPY LAST YEAR

New Years should begin on any day other than 1 January. From the moment the Australians begin their spectacular firework display over Sydney harbour at their midnight, which is hours before everyone else in the world, they generate in other nations a mood of euphoria, of...

Hey, Facebook, What have you got Against Breastfeeding?

A mass online protest movement is gathering after Facebook banned some breastfeeding photos from their social network site.  Many people are upset that Facebook is classifying these photos "obscene," and are...

Twitter - the Beak Speaks and Delivers :: Symblogogy

. . . . . " The beautiful thing about New Media is that it defies control yet exemplifies what can be done in an atmosphere of freedom and creativity.Take Twitter for example; a free communications service...

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