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Domainer sells name on Facebook
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Domainer sells name on Facebook

By on Jul 27, 2010 in Domain Sales, Social Networking

When domain owners list names for sale, one of the last places they think to list names is Facebook. But domainer Mike Mann made a smart move when he decided to list his generic .co domains on his Facebook page. He sold Flying.co for $3,500. Some of the other domains Mann has listed include news.co [...]

Facebooks hits 500 million users
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Facebooks hits 500 million users

By on Jul 22, 2010 in Social Networking, Web Services

According to PC World, social networking site Facebook now has half a billion users. To put in perspective, only China and India have more people than Facebook has users. Statistics posted by the news site reveal that 35.4% of North Americans and 17% of Europeans log onto Facebook every month. In Oceania, this figure is [...]

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Twitter to open Utah data center later this year

By on Jul 22, 2010 in Social Networking, VPS & Dedicated, Web Services

To help keep up with ever-increasing traffic, Twitter is set to open up a new custom-built data center in Utah later this year. Considering 300,000 new Twitter users log on every day, the site desperately needs to expand its capacity. The data center is being built especially for Twitter’s needs. The site currently leases data [...]

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World Cup Final was most-Tweeted event ever

By on Jul 16, 2010 in Social Networking, Web Services

Twitter announced yesterday that World Cup Final on July 11 marked the highest period of activity in the site’s history. During the last fifteen minutes of the match, Twitter users sent out more than 2,000 Tweets per second. This number jumped to 3,051 when Spain scored its winning goal. The Tweets came from 172 countries [...]

Twitter has 99.1% uptime for June
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Twitter has 99.1% uptime for June

By on Jul 05, 2010 in Featured, Social Networking, VPS & Dedicated, Web Hosting, Web Services

According to uptime service monitor Pingdom, social networking site Twitter had a June uptime figure of 99.17%. Although this sounds high, it is actually low by industry standards, especially for a large site like Twitter with so many resources at its disposal. The 0.83% downtime figure equates to 5 hours and 43 minutes of lost [...]

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Pakistan Facebook ban lifted

By on Jun 04, 2010 in Security, Social Networking

After protests over images of Islam’s Prophet Mohammad were posted on a Facebook page, the Pakistani government had banned access to the social networking site. The ban has since been lifted on the material, deemed offensive to Muslims, having been removed. The incident sparks questions, though, over just how the Westernised internet intends to manage [...]

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The internet and the third world: NGO blogging and tweeting from Bangladesh

By on Jun 02, 2010 in Social Networking

ActionAid is running a blogging and tweeting educational campaign for the third world, teaching people in poor communities how to use social media to tell their stories through .org sites. The project is called TOTO and is an ActionAid Australia initiative which puts bloggers in poor communities for one to two weeks to teach the [...]

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Facebook social networking king according to Google

By on Jun 02, 2010 in Social Networking

Figures recently released indicate that Facebook is the number one social networking site in the world, outstripping competitors and flying in the face of privacy concerns surrounding the social networking phenomenon. According to Google figures, Facebook now enjoys visits from more than 35 percent of the internet population, amounting to about 540 million people each [...]

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Facebook initiates dispute over Facebook.me

By on May 11, 2010 in Domain Sales, Intellectual Property, Social Networking

Facebook has filed a dispute with the WIPO over the domain Facebook.me, which is currently owned by UAE citizen Amjad Abbas. This is just one of many ccTLDs the site has gone after lately. Interestingly, the name’s current owner has it redirecting to Facebook.com. Why he would do is unclear to me. It just emphasizes [...]

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Create your own social networking site

By on Apr 21, 2010 in Social Networking, Software

If you hope to compete with Facebook, LinkedIn, or even MySpace, stop reading now. I am not promising anything like that, but in some cases, you might want to make a small social network for a particular student group, organization, niche market, city or town, or people with particular cultural interests. There are two methods [...]

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