Archive for February, 2010
Shelly Palmer: Twitter Gunning For Third Party Services – Huffingtonpost.com
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
There's a hint that Twitter is getting ready to launch a new site designed to replace many of the coolest third-party apps. Lookout TweetDeck, duck and cover Brizzly, Twitter is gunning for you! In other news, do you like using Google Street View ...
Elliott Yamin Details Terrifying Chilean Earthquake On Twitter – Starpulse.com
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Singer Elliott Yamin feared for his life when he was caught up in the massive earthquake which shook Chile on Friday. The Wait For You hitmaker, a former American Idol contestant, was in the South American country to play a music festival and was ...
Reporters Hole Up With Just Facebook, Twitter (NPR)
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Earlier this month, five French-speaking journalists spent a week in a house in the French countryside. No cell phones, no TV. They could use only Twitter and Facebook in their reporting. Host Liane Hansen speaks to Janic Tremblay of Radio Canada to find out how the experiment turned out.
Pentagon Loosens Reins Over Facebook, Twitter, Web 2.0 Apps – eWeek
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
The Department of Defense granted military personnel access to Facebook, Twitter, Google Apps and other user-generated applications in a Feb. 26 memorandum. The move followed a review that began last August after the U.S. Marines and U.S. Army ...
US military allows Twitter, other social media (ABS-CBNNEWS.com)
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon announced on Friday it has authorized the use Twitter, Facebook and other so-called "Web 2.0" sites across the US military, saying the benefits of social media outweighed security concerns.
US military allows Twitter, other social media – ABS-CBN
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon announced on Friday it has authorized the use Twitter, Facebook and other so-called "Web 2.0" sites across the US military, saying the benefits of social media outweighed security concerns. The decision, which comes at a ...
NSFW: Cherchez la fame – or why the media’s obsession with Twitter … – TechCrunch
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Time was, companies knew how to keep track of their important customers. First, they set up loyalty programs: computerised systems that tracked the monetary value of everyone who shopped in their stores or flew on their planes or ate at their ...
LIL WAYNE Explains His New Twitter Account Name (DimeWars)
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Rapper Lil Wayne recently revealed the hidden meaning behind his Twitter account name. "Three days, y'all -- let's party!" Lil Wayne said in the footage on Saturday (February 27). "This is for my real fans. People who wanna know what I be doin'. I'mma let y'all in. I just opened that [Twitter] up.
Share this on Twitter – Your War on Drugs: How monsters are made – DAILY KOS
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
This is Your War on Drugs. Ask the blind man, he saw it too. This past week I was summoned to Jury Duty and chosen to hear a Felony Murder case that highlights, again, how the war on drugs takes reasonable normal folks and transforms them, over time ...
Outrage as American mum-to-be uses Twitter and YouTube to chronicle … – Daily Mail
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
A mother of a four-year-old son with special news who accidentally fell pregnant again has decided to broadcast her abortion ordeal. American Angie Jackson has shared her experience of terminating the pregnancy via Twitter, YouTube and her own ...
Celebrity Baby News – femalefirst.co.uk
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
U.S. TV actress Catherine Bell is celebrating after learning she's pregnant for a second time. The Army Wives star, 41, and her screenwriter husband Adam Beason are expecting a baby boy, who will be a little brother to their six-year-old daughter ...
Pentagon Loosens Reins Over Facebook, Twitter, Web 2.0 Apps (eWeek)
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
The Department of Defense granted military personnel access to Facebook, Twitter, Google Apps and other user-generated applications in a Feb. 26 memorandum.
Lil Wayne Releases Pre-Jail Sentence Footage, Explains New Twitter … – SOHH
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Forest Whitaker Upset W/ Lil Wayne's "Hurricane Season" Film Straight-To-DVD Release, "It's A Travesty" Nicki Minaj On Keeping Her Barbies Waiting, "Before I Drop An Album, People Need To Come Out & See Me" Sade Marches Atop The Competition, Black ...
British politicians fall victim to Twitter scam – KHOU
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
LONDON (AP) — British politicians were among those caught up Friday in the latest Twitter-based scam which hijacks users' accounts to send out sexually explicit messages to friends and followers. The micro-blogging Web site has been hit by a wave ...
Social media adds to torrent of news – Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Online social media sites and radio and television airwaves were awash with tsunami information by the time Civil Defense sirens rousted isle residents to news of a tsunami warning. Sites such as Twitter and Facebook were both sources of, and ...
British politicians fall victim to Twitter scam – The Guardian
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Associated Press Writer= LONDON (AP) — British politicians were among those caught up Friday in the latest Twitter-based scam which hijacks users' accounts to send out sexually explicit messages to friends and followers. The micro-blogging Web site ...
US troops allowed access to Twitter and Facebook – New Kerala
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
London, Feb.28 : US troops are to be allowed to use social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook following a review of internet use and security. The BBC quotes defence department officials as saying that the benefits of using social media ...
US troops allowed access to Twitter and Facebook (New Kerala)
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
London, Feb.28 : US troops are to be allowed to use social networking websites such as Twitter and Facebook following a review of internet use and security.
Web site opens the door to break-ins – Detroit Free Press
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
To some, it's just another social networking tool for keeping tabs of friends and learning about cool places to go. To others, it screams, "I'm not home, so please rob me!" Now, thanks to a Web site not-so-coincidentally titled Please Rob Me ( www ...
FONTWELL IN DANGER – Sporting Life
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
FONTWELL IN DANGER Click here to follow us on Twitter! Click here for more racing news This afternoon's big meeting at Fontwell, featuring the National Spirit Hurdle, is under threat due to heavy rain. The course has been hit by 17mm overnight and ...