Archive for February, 2011
Monday, February 28th, 2011
For teachers, privacy is crucial. It helps them keep some distance from their students, which is vital in earning respect and keeping control.
But today's teachers are finding it harder to keep their distance. While just spotting a teacher at the shops used to be the fodder of school-yard gossip, now, ...
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Sunday, February 27th, 2011
Think of the defining image of the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa - the idea that unites Egypt with Tunisia, Bahrain and Libya.
It has not been, in itself, the celebrations of Hosni Mubarak's fall, nor the battles in Tahrir Square in Cairo. Nor even the fact of ...
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Thursday, February 24th, 2011
In 2005, MySpace was an upstart social media Web site with more than 16 million users. Young and flashy, it soon eclipsed Friendster, its main rival in the United States, among users in the most highly coveted under-30 demographic. And MySpace kept devising new features and innovative goodies for its ...
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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Facebook now has 600 million members globally and half of these log in on a daily basis. Facebookâs growth curve is also on the steady rise and has not shown any signs of flattening out yet.
So lets look at how users are uploading photos on Facebook.
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011
Social networking sites Twitter and Facebook are being inundated by users in Christchurch wanting to know if friends and family members have survived today's devastating earthquake.
A Facebook page, which was started after the September 4 earthquake, reveals the build-up to today's big tremor began about two days ago.
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
The Obama administration is seizing upon social media as a tool of 21st century statecraft like no other government.
In the midst of pro-democracy demonstrations across the Middle East, the State Department has been sending Twitter messages in Arabic and Farsi, ''connecting directly with people we could not reach before'', according ...
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Sunday, February 20th, 2011
Jay Lassiter is no longer "in a relationship".
Let's clarify that: Lassiter, a media adviser for political campaigns who lives in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, is still with his partner of nearly eight years, Greg Lehmkuho. But since late this week, when Facebook expanded its romantic-status options, Lassiter's profile there echoes ...
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Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is among a group of technology business leaders that President Barack Obama plans to meet with Thursday, US time, in San Francisco.
A person familiar with the list of attendees confirmed that the young billionaire was expected to attend.
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Wednesday, February 16th, 2011
The US government's legal hunt for Julian Assange will begin in a magistrates court in Virginia today when its Attorney General seeks a disclosure order on Twitter to obtain the names, dates and locations of anyone using its services to communicate with WikiLeaks.
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
Players and officials have been banned from tweeting during World Cup matches because the International Cricket Council fears they may be contacted by illegal bookmakers during play.
The decision, led by the ICC's anti-corruption and security unit, is intended to remove the potential for players and officials who use Twitter during ...
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