Feb 18 2009

Facebook TOS compared with MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter

With today’s outrage over Facebook’s newly altered Terms of Service at its peak, I figured I’d do a quick comparison of their terms of service as regards user-uploaded content to the terms specified by other social networking sites, just to see if said outrage is fully justified. It looks as though the finger-pointing at the Bush robots.txt file wa

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Feb 17 2009

Twitter’s getting more reliable, LinkedIn’s getting worse

Yes, Twitter had more downtime last year (84 hours) than any of 15 social networking sites monitored by Pingdom, but it showed dramatic improvement from July on. LinkedIn, conversely, had more downtime every quarter. MySpace and Facebook were among the best

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Feb 17 2009

Top 10 Twitter Tips for Beginners

Ready to jump into Twitter, but don’t know how to get started? Follow these 10 tips and you’ll fit right in.

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Feb 17 2009

Top 10 Twitter Tips for Beginners

Ready to jump into Twitter, but don’t know how to get started? Follow these 10 tips and you’ll fit right in.

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Feb 17 2009

What the Downturn Means for Mobile – BusinessWeek


Boston Globe

What the Downturn Means for Mobile
BusinessWeek – 8 hours ago
By Jack Ewing If you had to sum up the mood at this year's Mobile World Congress in a Twitter message, it might be: The struggle continues.
Nokia unveils online software shop Reuters
HTC Corp unveils two new handsets Taipei Times
Register – Mobile Today – eWeek – CNET News
all 193 news articles  Langue : Français
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Feb 15 2009

Journalists are not above the rules of decorum – Canada.com

Journalists are not above the rules of decorum
Canada.com – 12 Feb 2009
By Roberto Rocha 02-12-2009 COMMENTS(1) TechnoCité The much-publicized beef between National Post reporter David George-Cosh and marketing pro April Dunford on Twitter left a sour taste in the mouths of both journalists and those who take their calls.
The danger of tweeting in anger Telegraph.co.uk
A tale of two faux pas: When transparency meets bad behavior ZDNet Blogs
Examiner.com
all 6 news articles
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Feb 15 2009

The Pirate Bay Is Making a "Spectrial" of It

IDOXLR8 writes “The Harvard Law students defending accused file-swapper Joel Tenenbaum are doing their best to turn his upcoming trial into a media event. But when it comes to pure spectacle, they have nothing on The Pirate Bay. TPB is referring to the event as a ‘spectrial,’ a cross between a spectacle and a trial. They have set up a site where you can track their current location, complete with journal entries. The trial begins next Monday and features a live audio feed and Twitter translations.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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Feb 15 2009

Journalists are not above the rules of decorum – Canada.com

Journalists are not above the rules of decorum
Canada.com – 12 Feb 2009
By Roberto Rocha 02-12-2009 COMMENTS(1) TechnoCité The much-publicized beef between National Post reporter David George-Cosh and marketing pro April Dunford on Twitter left a sour taste in the mouths of both journalists and those who take their calls.
The danger of tweeting in anger Telegraph.co.uk
A tale of two faux pas: When transparency meets bad behavior ZDNet Blogs
Examiner.com
all 6 news articles
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Feb 14 2009

Journalists are not above the rules of decorum – Canada.com

Journalists are not above the rules of decorum
Canada.com – 12 Feb 2009
By Roberto Rocha 02-12-2009 COMMENTS(1) TechnoCité The much-publicized beef between National Post reporter David George-Cosh and marketing pro April Dunford on Twitter left a sour taste in the mouths of both journalists and those who take their calls.
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Feb 14 2009

Pirate Bay trial starts Monday; pirate bus en route

The Pirate Bay goes on trial in Sweden this upcoming Monday, and the site’s backers are ready to unleash a media juggernaut of bloggers, Twitterers, and press with the help of a city bus and a live audio stream of the entire trial.

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