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...
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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...
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...
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NowPublic recently had the chance to catch up with Guy Kawasaki, a leading venture capitalist with Garage Technology Ventures, former Apple evangelist, and a highly respected web entrepreneur and blogger.We spoke...
This may eliminate long wait times on the phone listening to a robotic female voice saying 'please stay on the line; your call is important to us'. The power of Twitter can reach far and wide it seems!"Have a...
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Interesting survey of who is and who is not using twitter as tool for reporting. This semester I taught it to my CAR students. It is useful if you hone down who you follow. It is a great tool for encouraging short sentences (limited to 140 characters). The Brit pols have the...
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Lifehacker has a really cool article about how a health action group called Tobacco Free Florida is leveraging the addictive nature of Twitter to help people quit smoking. The campaign is called Qwitter, fittingly...
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Mashable has a great summary of Sarah Lacy's response to the controversy surrounding her SXSW keynote interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.By all accounts, it was a terrible interview, however Lacy...
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It finally happened. It is the flashpoint of the festival so far. It's everywhere. You can actually hear, see, and feel people talking, twittering, moblogging, yapping, snapping, and gossiping about it.Yes, the...
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For the first time, massive layoffs in the tech sector are being reported in realtime by those in the firing line. Here is the twittering of former Yahoo employee who has turned his pink slip into a calling card. "
Article in tomorrow morning's LA Times about...
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VergeNewMedia.com, a private venture by two NBC reporters is about the most interesting reporter/twitter listing in Twitterholic’s top 100. This ranking includes only a handful of other media outlets, notably The New York Times, CNetnews and the BBC. Checking out...
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The Twitter experience is very similar to walking on a busy street and catching partial conversations. That is why a lot of effort is ongoing to optimize scaling opportunities by categorising the various uses of Twitter. A new service called
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"""What would you do if you were flush with millions? ""That's the multimillion-dollar question for hundreds of early Googlers. More than 900 employees became instant millionaires when Google went public in August 2004, and that total has likely ballooned along with the stock...
Call it the mainstreaming (MSMing?) of dear old 'citizen journalism', but it seems that it is the Main Stream Media who are finally beginning to realize that having access to better technological tools to report...
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