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Flipboard turns Twitter and Facebook into an iPad magazine

For someone who only upgraded from a 1997 Palm III PDA and a 2003 Nokia to an iPhone last year, I am now proud to be part of the in-crowd: I have an iPad. The only reason why I have an iPad, is that I dreamt of having an iPad. I believe in my dreams. [...]

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Facebook user agreement revisited

Cartoon courtesy Noise to Signal discovered via ReadWriteWeb

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World Leaders on Facebook

Click on the image for the full picture. Illustration courtesy The Atlantic

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Evidence of the social media revolution

In case you still needed convincing social media is not a trend, but a revolution: There are over 200,000,000 blogs in the world and 54% of bloggers post content or tweet daily. It took Radio 38 years to reach 50 million users. TV did better: 13 years, the Internet 4 Years and iPod 3 Years. Facebook on [...]

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Twitter and Facebook hacked (again)

The more critical, visible or popular a website, the more prone they become to hacker attacks. Social media giants Twitter and Facebook experienced this today. Both sites came under – probably related – hacker attacks today, bringing Twitter down, and Facebook onto its knees. The attacks were of a basic DoS (Denial of Service) types [...]

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Social Media and the Iran Protests

Iran held their presidential elections on Friday June 12. Late that evening, the current President Ahmadinejad was declared the winner. His rival Mousavi called the results a “charade” and on June 13, thousands of protesters took to the street. That Saturday June 13, I was sitting in Rome, Italy. Thousands of miles away from Tehran. [...]

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The Diagram of a Social Media Network

click for a high res view. In a previous post I explained in laymen’s terms what RSS feeds are, and what they can do for you as a reader, and as a blogger. A more technical post, described some of the technical tools I use to “transform” RSS feeds to different platforms. As my “network” grew [...]

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