September 13, 2012
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The sheer scale of Twitter is amazing: 2.8-billion tweets a day works out to about 5,000 tweets a second. Each tweet of 140 characters (or about 200 bytes) has to be sent, recorded, and retransmitted to up to 20 million … Continue reading
August 30, 2012
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San Diego, CA: Some people may have been surprised when Twitter recently joined The Linux Foundation. You couldn’t tweet about your dinner, your latest game, or the newest political rumor without open-source software. Chris Aniszczyk, open-source manager at Twitter, explained … Continue reading
August 14, 2012
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You may not buy that your Klout score matters. Too bad. Employers and bosses do pay attention to the social network “Standard for Influence” measurements. And, since Klout has just changed its scoring system and is adding new features. you … Continue reading
August 14, 2012
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Google+ is the best social network for grown-ups, but Google still doesn’t get it when it comes to letting people go by the names they want. The good news is that Google will soon let you use human readable names … Continue reading
July 30, 2012
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Fred Brewin, a Google product manager, has just announced that Google is upgrading its Gmail and its closely allied Google Talk instant-messaging, VoIP, and video-chat service to to “a more modern video calling technology — Google+ Hangouts.” Google+ Hangouts enables … Continue reading
July 26, 2012
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In a blog posting, following Twitter’s Thursday meltdown, Twitter VP of engineering, Mazen Rawashdeh, apologized for the social network’s failure. “We are sorry. Many of you came to Twitter earlier today expecting, well, Twitter. Instead, between around 8:20am and 9:00am … Continue reading