Cody Taylor

Eyvind A. Larre writes “A large and rapidly growing campaign to get users to stop using IE6 is being implemented throughout Europe. ‘Leading the charge is Finn.no, an eBay-like site that is apparently the largest site for buying and selling goods in all of Norway (Finn is Norwegian for “Find”). Earlier this week, Finn.no posted a warning on its web page for visitors running IE 6. The banner, seen at right, urges them to ditch IE 6 and upgrade to Internet Explorer 7.’ The campaign is now spreading like fire on Twitter (#IE6), and starting to become an amazing effort by big Media companies to get rid of IE6! The campaign also hit Wired some hours ago”

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We’ve accumulated a list of the twenty most popular Twitter applications, based on monthly unique visitor data from Compete.

Part II of a fantastic interview. Jack Dorsey speaks about Twitter’s contours as a communications medium, its evolution and how its strong suit — so far, at least — is in exposing the present moment, rather than the past.

Sitting in the Flickr archives is a nearly 10-year-old document uploaded a couple of years ago by its author, Jack Dorsey, who started Twitter in 2006 along with co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone. The legal-pad sketch of the idea that would become Twitter has been noticed before, but we thought we’d ask him about it in a little more detail.

Hodejo1 writes “Yesterday was a big day for the Pirate Bay when half of the charges against them were dropped leaving only the lesser charges of assisting making copyrighted material available in place. TorrentFreak is following the English twitter feed of the trial in the wee hours of the night, documenting more missteps by the prosecution. “The Pirate Bay trial is moving forward rapidly and again the day in court has ended early. On the third day the prosecution presented the amended charges. The defendants all called for acquittal while Carl Lundström’s lawyer scored points with the already legendary ‘King Kong’ defense”.”

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British actor Stephen Fry has given a global highlight to a protest against a contentious New Zealand internet law due to come into effect next week. Fry used the international and increasingly powerful Twitter social network to attack the New Zealand law and support the Internet BlackOut protest.

When Lance Armstrong’s bike was stolen, he put out an APB to the “twitterati.” When NASA scientists make a discovery about Mars, they turn to Twitter to get the word out to avid space enthusiasts. But Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says he doesn’t twitter all that often.

illectro writes “A study on site availability by monitoring service Pingdom shows that in 2008 Twitter greeted users with the ‘Fail Whale’ for more than 84 hours, almost twice as much as any other site. At the other end of the scale imeem and Xanga managed less than 4 hours of downtime for 99.95% uptime. Myspace, Facebook and Classmates.com were the only other sites studied which managed to stay up more than 99.9% of the time.”

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For a company that’s not making money, Twitter is being awfully picky about who it hires to come up with ideas for generating cash. The company accidentally published the email addresses of 186 rejects.