Archive for June, 2009
Monday, June 29th, 2009
No one knows if "Persian Kiwi" or PK has any connections to New Zealand, however, it has definitely captured the attention of some media in New Zealand.What it doe though is highlight how Twitter has become a key issue in Iran.With the Iranian Government stopping the access to social networking ...
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Friday, June 26th, 2009
I posted earlier about a French Rugby player who was attacked on his way back to the teams hotel after playing the All Blacks in Wellington.After pressure from the NZ Police based on their investigation he has admitted to making up the story to cover up his being drunk and ...
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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Mathieu Bastareaud was attacked on the weekend after his tram has lost to the All Blacks on Saturday night. After leaving a venue to return to the team hotel he was attacked and suffered a suspected broken eye socket and needed four stitches to his face.What makes this interesting, is ...
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
TinyURL.com, bit.ly and the new su.pr from Stumbleupon are all tools you can use for shortening URL's, especially useful for Twitter and other micro blogging sites due to their limitation on each message.However, I had never thought of the possible implications of shortened URL's, primarily the ability to hide any ...
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
With the launch of Bing and some of the responses by Google, Collecta is a new small player, that could actually be a forerunner for Real Time Search.Using Google, Yahoo or Bing, finding social content has been difficult. Twitter, Facebook and other social sites have not been well indexed.People often ...
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