Feb
18
2009
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
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
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
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
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Feb
15
2009
Comments Off on Journalists are not above the rules of decorum – Canada.com | tags: google, news, twitter | posted in technical news
Feb
15
2009
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.”

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Feb
15
2009
Comments Off on Journalists are not above the rules of decorum – Canada.com | tags: google, news, twitter | posted in technical news
Feb
14
2009
Journalists are not above the rules of decorumCanada.com – 12 Feb 2009By 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
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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