Stories about: Tech Tools

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    Twitter's 5th Birthday: 5 Milestones 22/03/2011 04:48:00

    At 4:50 p.m. on March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey wrote "just setting up my twttr."
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    23 tech terms we’d like to ban 09/11/2010 01:49:00

    As technology moves forward, the English language sometimes takes a step backward. You can thank public relations professionals, CEOs, and technology journalists for that. Whether grammatically incorrect or simply annoying, these overused tech buzzwords are painful to hear.
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    Five years of YouTube: The ups, the downs 18/05/2010 06:43:00

    YouTube turns five today, and with 2 billion daily users to celebrate the birthday, is safe to say the video site is having a good life. Still, the road to the big "zero five" -- that's a long time in Internet years -- wasn't without potholes. Here's a look back at the milestones and missteps of the Web's biggest video site:
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    Twitter tweets to enter Library of Congress 15/04/2010 08:38:00

    Who would've thought that 140-character musings could be so culturally significant? First Google announces that it will index billions of Twitter posts into a searchable database, and now the venerable Library of Congress say it plans to preserve the entire archive of public tweets. Twitter's official blog made the announcement today.
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    Google Earth reveals the devastation in Haiti 15/01/2010 04:05:00

    Google responded to the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti earlier this week by working with satellite imagery company GeoEye to quickly make images of the destruction available in Google Earth and Google Maps. The images were taken at approximately 10:27 AM Eastern time on Wednesday, and could prove to be a helpful tool for aid organizations attempting to survey and assess the damage to Haiti's infrastructure.
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    Tech tools tell the story of earthquake in Haiti 14/01/2010 03:31:00

    The worst earthquake to hit the Caribbean in 200 years struck Haiti on Tuesday. The 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near the Haitian Capital of Port-au-Prince, where it devastated the tiny nation, causing an unknown number of deaths and widespread destruction. But despite being the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, Haiti's Internet connected devices were key tools in telling the rest of the world about the emerging crisis.
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    Twitter's top trending topics of 2009 17/12/2009 04:41:00

    Did you know that Twitter users are a bunch of Super Bowl cheering, American Idol watching, Google Wave using music lovers? That's according to Twitter's top trending topics list for 2009, anyway. Twitter recently released the list, which details the topics that people were talking about this year, in messages of 140 characters or less, of course.
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    Medical marijuana dispensary thrives on Twitter 08/07/2009 00:00:00

    Twitter has been used to fight tyranny, deliver tragic news, follow politics, and now some California residents have found another innovative purpose for the micro-blogging service: marketing weed.
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    Twitter travails: pranks and deleted account errors 07/07/2009 00:57:00

    Twitter's "Trending Topics" is a popular feature that allows you to see what are the most popular subjects being discussed on Twitter in real time. Yesterday, amid popular tweets about Wimbledon, Steve McNair, and Harry Potter, one thing seemed to be on everybody's mind: gorilla penis. (Click on the screen cap below to enlarge the image.) Highlighting another crack in Twitter security, hackers flooded onto Twitter yesterday to create fake accounts and drive global discussions toward primate anatomy.
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    White House now on Facebook, MySpace and Twitter 05/05/2009 02:07:00

    The White House this weekend opened a variety of social networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace and Twitter accounts.
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    How to recruit and retain the Net Generation 05/12/2007 08:18:04

    In his 1997 book Growing Up Digital: The Rise of the Net Generation, author Don Tapscott predicted that the children of baby boomers would make up an enormously influential group as the first generation to grow up surrounded by high-tech tools and toys.
 
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