Tag: twitter
Twitter breaks Chinese earthquake news
The Globe and Mail's Mathew Ingram wrote about Twitter's news breaking success today as well. If you don't read Mathew's blog it's worth checking out for a Canadian perspective on technology. Here's what Mathew had to say today:""Like many others, I woke up...
Microblogs are world's first instant global mass ...
Microblogs are here to stay and the most important thing about microblogs is their immediate feedback information loop capabilities.
Some microblogs worldwideThis list is a personal choice and based on three criteria: ease of operability, quality of service and experienced...
MySpace lets users take profile data outside site...
This seems to be a retraction to my previous post." MySpace announced Thursday it is opening the gates of its popular online community by letting users automatically transfer profile information to other social-networking websites.MySpace said it will kick off a "data...
MySpace Partners with Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter for Da...
This was bound to happen. Smart move on MySpace's part."MySpace is announcing a broad ranging embrace of data portability standards today, along with data sharing partnerships with Yahoo, Ebay, Twitter and their own Photobucket subsidiary. The new project is being called...
Follow the Nomad, Skype Says
How excatly does one keep moving, Twittering, and Skype-ing while sleeping and eating?"In a bid to prove how robust and versatile Skype is, the company has embarked on a unique experiment that has a writer using...
Twitter down over there! No, literally.
Twitter might have gone fown for more than 37 hours in the first four months of 2008 -- working out to roughly 9 hours / month -- but even that can't seem to stop twitchy microblogging-junkies from twittering at...
Giant Twitter Typewriter in Second Life
From the virtual inventions desk, comes this cute mashup of Second Life and Twitter — a giant typewriter has been created in the virtual world of SL that allows users to type 140 characters of fun onto virtual...
File under "Uses for Twitter"
"Arrington was complaining that his Comcast Internet service was inexplicably down. Eliason reached out to help, and Comcast soon dispatched a team to Arrington’s house to fix his Internet connection. It was, Eliason says, a turning point, but not in quite the way you’d...
Texas Polygamy Case
link. The images we have all seen of the families involved in the Texas polygamy case are disturbing. It doesn't matter where one's opinion lies - the whole situation is simply disturbing.I would not agree to live in a plural marriage, no matter how often my husband...
Twitter and the Zeitgeist
Twitter, like Facebook, is all about strength (or wisdom) in numbers. On its own, the microblogging application is simply a technological tool, but if it is adopted en masse, on a Facebook-scale, it could yet provide...
Leonard Brody on what news consumers want
Another piece on Rafat Ali's conference in LA where NowPublic CEO Leonard Brody is talking about the impact of 'voter-generated content'."Other media executives said what's different about this campaign is that...
I Was Saved By Twitter In An Egyptian Jail
James Karl Buck helped free himself from an Egyptian jail with a one-word blog post from his cell phone. Buck, a graduate student from the University of California-Berkeley, was in Mahalla, Egypt, covering an anti-government protest when he and his translator, Mohammed Maree,...
Relationships 2.0: Dating in 140 Characters or Less
MySpace and Facebook have built a reputation for aiding (and sometimes hurting) people when developing a romantic relationship. They are social networks, and as such, people tend to interact in some way through...
When the Tweets Go Out: Downtime and User Expecta...
Last weekend's Twitter downtime has prompted the expected bout of hand-wringing... (I didn't even notice, but evidently many, many others sure did)"• The difference between way AOL grew and some services like...
Did Clinton Campaign Sabotage Twitter?
According to blogger Warner Crocker, a spokesperson for Fox News has apparently discovered that the Clinton campaign, in an act of web 2.0 campaign maliciousness, is to blame for the technical glitches and problems...
