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Astronauts get Internet access: Tweet from space

nospam@example.com (Budi Putra) — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 06:18:49 -0800

That’s a huge step on the Internet revolutions! Remember Anousheh Ansari, the first person ever to blog from space? Now T.J. Creamer (@Astro_TJ) is the first tweeple from the space station! Bravo!
In far reaching developments, NASA astronauts now have personal internet web access and are tweeting from space. So you might want to follow NASA [...]

We are all human aggregators now!

nospam@example.com (Budi Putra) — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:59:30 -0800

This is my daily habit on Twitter: skim the timelines, look for the breaking news (mostly tech news), fave it, retweet it and blog it — whenever possible. At the same time, my followers also read it and –hopefully– retweet it and blog it, too.
Surfing the Web has become even more of a challenge as [...]

Updates on Yahoo! Meme: New popular page, dashboard

nospam@example.com (Budi Putra) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:35:23 -0800

Yahoo! Meme just updated and tweaked some features as below:
- a new popular page with more content and options! (Yep, finding the best reposts of all time is now wonderfully uncomplicated). - the omnipresent dashboard (now you can post from anywhere inside meme!). - dozens of design and interface tweaks and changes (find all the changes, we’ll [...]

After joining Twitter, Bill Gates is now a blogger!

nospam@example.com (Budi Putra) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:37:43 -0800

After got more than 250,000 followers just one day joining Twitter, Bill Gates started his own blog called “The Gates Notes”. The software-mogul-turned-philanthropist recently tweeted about his new site: “My new website is live check out www.thegatesnotes.com. Excited to share more about what I?m learning, hope you like it!”
Ah yes, Gates once blogged about the [...]

How to use Twitter to report breaking news

nospam@example.com (Budi Putra) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:07:52 -0800

Peter Shankman wrote about the misuse of Twitter (in term of reporting breaking news). The former journalist of AP and editor of AOL News�shows us a sample:
Today, there was a small evacuation at Grand Central Station in New York City. It was so small, in fact, that the media didn?t even pick up on it.
However, [...]

President Obama sends his own Tweet. Finally!

nospam@example.com (Budi Putra) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:01:01 -0800

While on a visit to the Red Cross mission control center for Haiti, President Obama finally pushed “enter” on a tweet using The Red Cross Twitter account.
It seems appropriate to briefly interrupt today’s radio silence to take note of the historic fact that President Barack Obama has tweeted for the very first time. Repeat, President [...]

Skype, still the world?s biggest social network

nospam@example.com (Budi Putra) — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:51:15 -0800

My colleague Jeremy Wagstaff wrote an interesting piece on Skype and highlighted that the service is still the world’s biggest social network! [To be honest, I was also not aware about this fact!]
We talk about Facebook, twitter, MySpace and Friendster as the big social networks but we keep forgetting one that is far bigger than [...]

Yahoo?s strategy for the Social Web in 2010

nospam@example.com (Budi Putra) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:57:25 -0800

GigaOM wrote an interesting piece about Yahoo’s social web strategy for 2010, based on interview with Cody Simms (Director of Product Management for the Yahoo application platform) and Chris Yeh (head of the Yahoo developer network) recently.
Some key points:
Yahoo wants to aggregate its users? activities from around the web. The Facebook Connect integration is the [...]

Haiti quake relief: How tech helps

nospam@example.com (Budi Putra) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:45:28 -0800

Over $5 million had been raised through text message, thanks to a texting campaign spread on Twitter and Facebook. [Want to help Haiti people who lost homes, friends and family members in the 7.0-magnitude earthquake? Check-out here and here]. People around the world also can see the earliest pictures and videos of disaster through TwitPic [...]

Uncensoring China

nospam@example.com (Budi Putra) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:59:01 -0800

Google has announced that it will cease censorship of its Chinese language, Google.cn website, and even will be leaving the country, following its detection of malicious attacks on the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. But in China itself, as usual, the news was heavily censored.
Should Google left the country immediately and let all its [...]

How to order Nexus One if you live outside the US, UK, HK, or Singapore?

nospam@example.com (Budi Putra) — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 06:12:52 -0800

If you can’t wait any longer your country listed on Google Nexus One’s shipping policy, the following trick could be worth trying, thanks to Gamaze website. However, you have to pay the additional shipping cost for that. Your call!

Get access to the ordering process by downloading and installing the free Hotspot Shield software (Windows & [...]

Google?s Nexus One Enterprise version to challenge Blackberry?

nospam@example.com (Budi Putra) — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 03:13:10 -0800

Indeed, it’s the next logical step for Google to win the smartphone war: eyeing the enterprise market that’s still dominated by RIM’s BlackBerry. But it seems not that easy for Google to be the new mobile player, since the Internet giant is facing Nexus One customer complaints regarding the device’s poor 3G performance.
Last Friday at [...]

Now Facebook Fellowship, then Facebook University?

nospam@example.com (Budi Putra) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:40:14 -0800

Facebook announced the Facebook Fellowship Program to support Ph.D. students in the 2010-2011 school year, to help the Palo Alto company in�dealing with�the social web and Internet technology challenges (and maybe, a way to find future hires?). Full-time Ph.D. students who are enrolled in U.S. universities and working on research in the following topical areas [...]

Nokia CEO says one-size-fits-all phones don?t fit the world

nospam@example.com (Budi Putra) — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:23:30 -0800

At the end of the day, business is business. That’s why the Finnish phone-maker didn’t rely on smart-phones only: midle-end and low-end phones still a big business! That’s the theme of Nokia chief executive speech at the Consumer Electronics Show today in Las Vegas.
Nokia chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo says that, while the tech community is [...]

Microsoft shows off tablet computer

nospam@example.com (Budi Putra) — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:00:30 -0800

Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer showed off a new tablet-style computer from Hewlett-Packard during his CES keynote. The HP Slate has multitouch capability and can do some gaming. “Tablet-style computers that run Windows have been available for a decade, but HP’s machine is bound to draw extra attention, thanks to expectations that Apple will launch [...]