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COLLATED TWEETS of ChemarieMonica FEB 19/2010

2010-02-19T17:08:00.012+08:00

COLLATED TWEETS of ChemarieMonica
here on blogspot
as of feb 19 2010 5pm

I have collected some of my tweets. In able for me to see how wonderful and strong, the computer world and technology is.

Long ago ive been thinking how can i store all of the things I have read and browsed over the internet. And because im the type of person who values much of everything in my life including those things that has passed my sight and made me ponder..
I said to myself i have to find a way...

With the new trends that computer era has brought about in this world. Blogging and tweeting gave me the way , a chance , to store all the things i've tweeted, blogged, published and then archive them afterwards..

Seemingly, it appears and works like a diary but with little perks as extra financially rewarding as well..

The world seems to like blogging and so am I.

ChemarieMonica: Auto Designers Cater to China, the New Giant: http://bit.ly/cgOpil

ChemarieMonica: Are You Following The Olympics?: http://bit.ly/91eDvq

ChemarieMonica: Audi A8 4.2 TDI SE (2010) CAR review http://bit.ly/d339q6

ChemarieMonica: Bimp-Eaga launches new tourism brand,Equator Asia http://bit.ly/cjSpMF
ChemarieMonica: Martin Roll: Unleashing Asian Brand Potential http://bit.ly/bE7Er
ChemarieMonica: RT @BreakingReport: asia: RPT-GLOBAL MARKETS-Fed action buoys dollar, hits commods, stocks: * Euro falls to 9-mth low vs ... http://bit.ly/dmyfGu [Yahoo! Asia]
ChemarieMonica: RT @dlldmg: Greek Euro crisis hits Asia: http://bit.ly/b8179i
ChemarieMonica: RT @themadbomber: Taiwan gal father General Air Force, she buying films Asia to Euro.My father AF n I'm buying Euro films to Asia, mixed up world.
ChemarieMonica: RT @gilggadi: Mineweb - Gold off week`s high on continued euro concerns - ASIA: HOME > REGIONS > ASIA. ASIA. GOLD MARKET UPDATE.... http://bit.ly/dj7EuQ
ChemarieMonica: RT @ilenqw: NOW WATCHING MTV HITS MTV ASIA on INDOVISION !
ChemarieMonica: RT @Nillarufizianti: mtv asia
ChemarieMonica: RT @noirmelody: God, please let me win the MTV Asia contest thingy.. Pleaseee~ with SM Town on top :)
ChemarieMonica: RT @MNCMusicChannel: Nonton MNC Music Channel donk :) Stay tuned ya.. RT @rsarasd: nonton mnc music channel trs gontaganti Vchannel ato MTV asia :D

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chemarie 2010: world

2010-02-19T13:06:00.008+08:00

chemarie 2010:

COLLATED INFO and NEWS
about chemarie (Jan-Feb 2010)
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Certificate presentation for St John's top achievers

Brunei News, Brunei Headlines from Brunei fm - ‎Jan 24, 2010‎

Meanwhile, two students, Caayoa Chemarie Dichson and Vanessa Adina Toyad were also awarded with $150 cash prize for scoring 5 'A's in their PSR examination. ...

see from orig post: http://news.brunei.fm/2010/01/25/certificate-presentation-for-st-johns-top-achievers/

Ostahie, Altex: Nu vedem cresteri anul acesta. Discursurile optimiste ale ...

DailyBusiness.ro - ‎Feb 11, 2010‎

Dan Ostahie a sesizat multiplele chemari in judecata din partea companiilor, in aceasta perioada dificila din punct de vedere economic. ...

DailyBusiness.ro

see from orig post: http://www.dailybusiness.ro/stiri-it-c/ostahie-altex-nu-vedem-cresteri-anul-acesta-discursurile-optimiste-ale-analistilor-si-guvernatorului-bnr-nu-se-vor-concretiza-38468

Transnistria - falimentul unei enclave

Agentia de Investigatii Media - ‎Feb 7, 2010‎

Asa ca se intrevad deja anumite cedari si chemari la compromis catre Chisinau. Saptamana aceasta Tiraspolul a solicitat oficial Chisinaului reluarea ...

see from orig post: http://www.agentia.org/teoria-conspiratiei/Transnistria-falimentul-unei-enclave--864.html

"Avalansa" de rechemari in service-urile auto. Sunt masinile pline de ...

DailyBusiness.ro - ‎Feb 1, 2010‎

"Cele mai multe din cazuri nu apar in presa, pentru ca sunt chemari obisnuite, pentru probleme uzuale, de la defectiuni ale scaunului pasagerului, ...

DailyBusiness.ro

see from orig post: http://www.dailybusiness.ro/stiri-auto/avalansa-de-rechemari-in-service-urile-auto-sunt-masinile-pline-de-gadgeturi-mai-putin-fiabile-vezi-ce-spun-specialistii-37931

Otita, boala frecventa la copii

Ele.ro - ‎Jan 28, 2010‎

Printre principalele simptome, destul de ingrijoratoare de altfel se numara si pierderea temporara a auzului, iar copilul afectat raspunde greu la chemari ...

Ele.ro

see from orig post: http://mamici.ele.ro/Otita-boala-frecventa-la-copii_--a11103.html

Situatie de urgenta din cauza gerului polar

Ziarul de Iasi - ‎Jan 25, 2010‎

Autosanitarele au fost inlocuite si sa plecat la chemari cu alte masini", a precizat Mihai Murariu, director medical in cadrul SJA Botosani. ...

see from orig post: http://www.ziaruldeiasi.ro/regional/botosani/situatie-de-urgenta-din-cauza-gerului-polar~ni63k8

UDMR nu va participa la adunarea alesilor locali din secuime

Cronica Română - ‎Jan 24, 2010‎

Potrivit acestuia, pana acum, Partidul Civic Maghiar si Consiliul National al Maghiarilor din Transilvania au raspuns favorabil acestei chemari.

see from orig post: http://www.cronicaromana.ro/index.php?art=101990

RELIGIE / Marturisirea lui Hristos in lume prin calitatea morala a vietii ...

Gazeta de Maramureş - ‎Jan 25, 2010‎

Toti crestinii care au fost chemati la comuniune si care au raspuns afirmativ acestei chemari, impartasindu-se cu sfintele lui Hristos Taine, de acum devin ...

Gazeta de Maramureş

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What do 2010s hold for India?

2010-01-19T10:27:00.005+08:00

Posted in Inside India
by Swati Prasad
zdnetasia.com

It's very difficult to crystal-gaze. Back in 2000, when mobile telephony was becoming cheaper in India (and I had just acquired my first mobile phone--my elder brother's hand-me-down, a Nokia 1610), I would have never anticipated that in less than five years, almost every man/woman on Delhi's streets would own a mobile phone.

Today, my mobile phone has mobile phone numbers of my domestic maid, the vegetable vendor, and even the man who comes to pick up the garbage every morning.

Things changed quite drastically during the last decade. It's a lifestyle change of sorts--new gadgets for entertainment, smarter mobile phones, the spread of digital cameras, more efficient laptops, sleeker data storage devices and so much more. These were things my 20-something brain could not have fathomed back in 2000.

As opposed to (most) adults, kids today are a lot more clued into technology and what it may offer us in the future. Last year, during his annual vacation to Delhi, my nine-year old nephew Saahil, had very interesting thoughts to share.

He said by 2020, the world would be a very different place. "All gadgets would be able to talk to one another. We would all wear watches that could double up as a computer, a mobile video phone, a Playstation, a camera and much more. We could even give instructions to our microwave ovens and air-conditioners from our watch," Saahil said.

Saahil had several such thoughts to share (like how we would vacation on resorts in outer space) and I asked him to write them down and e-mail them to me (I was even hoping he'd ghost-write my blog for a change). But like most kids his age, he preferred to spend the rest of his vacation playing games on his Playstation, spending time on Facebook, watching TV and wrapping up his holiday homework.

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Europe is next emerging destination for Indian workers: Vayalar Ravi (Interview)

2010-01-06T21:38:00.001+08:00

Europe is next emerging destination for Indian workers: Vayalar Ravi (Interview):

"NEW DELHI - After the Gulf nations, Europe is emerging as the next window of opportunity for Indian workers and the country would do its bit to promote and protect their interests, Overseas Indian Affairs Minister Vayalar Ravi has said.

“There is no doubt, Gulf remains a major destination for Indian workers. But now, Europe ...

Read the original article on Gaea Times at :
http://blog.taragana.com/business/2010/01/06/europe-is-next-emerging-destination-for-indian-workers-vayalar-ravi-interview-17804/

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What drives millions to social networking sites?

2010-01-06T21:24:00.001+08:00

What drives millions to social networking sites?:

"SYDNEY - Curiosity to know about other people’s lives and self-expression drive millions of people to online networking sites like the Facebook, MySpace and Twitter.

Research on social network sites has focused largely on user personality traits, benefits to individuals such as information sharing, issues of privacy and the like.
Now, Macquarie University doctoral student ....

Read the original article : here."
http://blog.taragana.com/science/2010/01/06/what-drives-millions-to-social-networking-sites-2749/

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Fireworks flash over Sydney Opera House during New Year celebrations, 01 Jan 2010

2010-01-03T07:41:00.002+08:00

Fireworks flash over Sydney Opera House during New Year celebrations, 01 Jan 2010
Celebrations in Australia, Asia Ring In 2010
voanews.com

Starting at the International Date line in the mid-Pacific and spreading from east to west, crowds around Asia led the world in ringing in the New Year.

One of the first major cities to celebrate the beginning of 2010 was Sydney, Australia. More than a million people gathered along the Sydney harbor to watch the city's annual fireworks show, set to booming rock music.

Hours before midnight people arrived at Harbor Bridge to stake out good seats for the 12-minute display. This year's show involved more than 5,000 kilograms of explosive devices.

Other cities around Asia and the Pacific region celebrated with fireworks, such as Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong. In Auckland, New Zealand, thousands of partygoers took to the streets to watch as fireworks shot from the Sky Tower. In the capital of Taiwan, 22,000 fireworks were shot from different angles off the Taipei 101 skyscraper. President Ma Ying-jeou was on-hand for the countdown party.

In other places people marked the New Year without fireworks.

Millions in Japan prayed at shrines for good fortune in 2010. At Tokyo's Zojo-ji Buddhist temple, clear balloons were released into the air at midnight.

In Seoul, South Korea, a giant bell was rung.

In China's capital, signs around Beijing cautioned not to light fireworks within the heart of the city on New Year's Eve.

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Blogger’s Notebook

2009-12-30T11:40:00.004+08:00

cable360.net

Odds and ends to conclude the year and look ahead to 2010.

Holiday Gifts: General kudos to cable’s programmers this month. It’s usually a hit or miss situation when it comes to receiving preview tapes from networks prior to the January TV critics tour. With TCA arriving so close to the holidays, it’s understandable that the task of distributing preview tapes to critics of next year’s shows sometimes slips. Not this year.

TNT sent out the critically acclaimed police series Southland weeks ago. Just the other day Investigation Discovery delivered its Valentine’s Day special, Prison Wives. Earlier, HBO, which is always reliable in terms of sending screeners, posted us parts of its much anticipated Hanks-Spielberg 10-night mini The Pacific.

So, how were the tapes we received?

Before that let’s look at the schedule. Remember Southland is a series that Turner Entertainment chief Steve Koonin grabbed for TNT after its cancellation by NBC. Beginning Jan 12 at 10pm, TNT plans to present 13 eps of Southland, including 7 that aired previously on NBC; the new eps will commence on TNT March 2.

The eps TNT sent us recently included an extended pilot—there is some 6 minutes of material here that NBC deleted when the pilot debuted originally. Even better, TNT will show this longer pilot commercial free on Jan 12.

OK, so how’s the quality of Southland? Koonin, one of cable’s most pleasant execs, can keep smiling. The critics weren’t wrong about Southland. It’s a gritty police drama based in Los Angeles and it’s largely believable. Much of the pilot’s time is spent with rank-and-file officers Cooper (Michael Cudlitz), a hard-nosed veteran, and Sherman (Ben McKenzie), a green rookie who’s assigned to train with Cooper. While Cooper and Sherman’s adventures largely are predictable and the other characters are more traditional than TNT’s original police dramas The Closer and Saving Grace, Southland is solid. The larger question will be whether TNT orders new episodes after this season. Should it do so, will Southland retain its broadcast network (read more expensive than cable) look and feel?

Interestingly The Pacific reminds me of how good the concept of another series was. History’s WWII in HD, which premiered in November, really was a misnomer. Yes, the digitized and colorized footage was impressive, but the real stars of that fine series were the men and women who told their WWII stories. After introducing their stories, they gave way to actors who voiced their words. Eventually their narratives were woven into History’s telling of the war.

Oil hangs below US$79 in Asia after surge

2009-12-30T11:16:00.004+08:00

etaiwannews.com
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Oil prices hung below US$79 a barrel yesterday in Asia, giving back some gains as Asian stock markets mostly fell and the U.S. dollar strengthened moderately.

Benchmark crude for February delivery was down US$0.11 to US$78.66 a barrel at midday in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. =The contract settled up US$0.72 at US$78.77 on Monday after surging above US$79 as an extended cold snap in the U.S. triggered an end-of-year rally in energy futures.

Futures contracts for oil, natural gas and heating oil have all become more expensive this month as snow storms blanketed parts of the U.S. and a sharp drop in supplies of crude and other fuels surprised traders.Analysts say oil could rise above US$80 before the end of the year if U.S. inventories figures show a drop in stockpiles, which would suggest improving demand in the world's largest economy.

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Microsoft Wants Bing to Become Big Chinese Player

2009-12-30T11:03:00.007+08:00

microsoft-watch.com

Microsoft seems determined to seize the large-and-growing Chinese search-engine market, according to a statement circulating online.

"Microsoft is committed to the China market and the search market in China is the most important strategic market for Microsoft," the company told Reuters on Dec. 29. "We specifically set the search technology center in China to get a deeper understanding of what Chinese users need, to be able to deliver the best product to them."

But as T.S. Eliot might have said, there's a substantial shadow between the concept and the reality. And in the reality, Microsoft has a long, steep road ahead if it wants to catch up to the reigning players in the China space.

According to research firm Analysys International, as cited by Reuters, Chinese search engine Baidu currently leads the country's search-engine market with 63.9 percent, followed by Google with 31.3 percent. Meanwhile, another research firm estimated Bing (which launched in China in June, and is still technically in beta) as occupying less than 1 percent of the Chinese search-engine market in the second quarter of 2009.

Within the U.S., Bing currently owns less than 10 percent of the market (depending on which research firm's data you use; Experian Hitwise plugged it at 9.57 percent for October, while ComScore said 9.9 percent), while Google dominates at around 65 percent and Yahoo somewhere in the 18 percent range. The big hope among Redmond's executives, most likely, is that the finalization of the Microsoft-Yahoo search-and-advertising deal will not only result in Bing seizing Yahoo's search engine market-share with little to no attrition (under the terms of the deal, Bing will power search on Yahoo's sites) but that the extra flood of data from Yahoo customers will allow Microsoft's engineers to refine Bing into a more robust Google competitor.

Microsoft, Yahoo help keep India away from porn?

2009-12-30T10:49:00.004+08:00

news.cnet.com

Birds do it. Bees do it. It's just that these days in India it may be a little harder to watch online images of human beings doing it.

Sex is often a slightly thorny subject (well, maybe except in France). However, varying attitudes around the world to varying sexual practices mean search engines must adjust their positions accordingly.

So it may sadden some to hear of a Guardian special investigation that appears to have unearthed evidence of Microsoft and Yahoo search engines complying with a new Indian law offering severe punishment for the display of "lascivious" content.

I know one man's lascivious is another man's oblivious. But this law, based on a 150-year-old statute (section 292, if you have your Indian penal code tucked about your person) specifically targets access to obscenity.

McAfee: Cybercriminals will attack Adobe more than Microsoft

2009-12-30T10:36:00.006+08:00

blog.seattlepi.com

Computer security leader McAfee is predicting that, in 2010, cybercriminals will attack Adobe products more than those from the perennial big target, Microsoft.

In 2009, as attacks on client software increased, cybercriminals' favorite products were Adobe Flash and Acrobat Reader, according to a report (PDF) released Tuesday by McAfee Labs. Attackers can exploit vulnerabilities in Flash applications via the Web and Acrobat documents via e-mail attachments.

"Based on the current trends," the McAfee report states, "we expect that in 2010 Adobe product exploitation is likely to surpass that of Microsoft Office applications in the number of desktop PCs being attacked."

Meanwhile, 2009 marked a possible turning point in the fight against cybercrime, McAfee said. Law enforcement continues to get better at tracking, identifying and catching attackers, illustrated by two major crackdowns this year.

Incorporate a Company in Cyprus - Offshore Company Forum#pos

2009-12-29T02:11:00.003+08:00

cclogic.com

Cyprus location is on the northeastern part of the Mediterranean at a cross of Africa and Asia that is a great area to kill two birds with one stone. This is the perfect area to have a business

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SnapNames.com releases the catalog for its Geo Auction

2009-12-29T01:57:00.005+08:00

domainnews.com

SnapNames is hosting their December Showcase Auction featuring geo and local search domain names. The auction will begin Tuesday,Decmber 8 and will end Tuesday,December 15,2009. Here are some interesting domain names to be auctioned : Afghanistan.net AllenPark.com AsiaLoans.com AspenColoradoHome.com AtlantaForum.com Aussies.net

Members of the European Parliament Pay their Condolences to the Indian Prime Minister for One Year of 26/11

2009-12-29T01:40:00.005+08:00

businesswireindia.com

Members of the European Parliament and Members of the South Asia Peace Forum paid their condolences to the Prime Minister of India Shri Manmohan Singh for the massacre done by terrorists last year in Mumbai

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Kim Kardashian Earns $10K Per Tweet

2009-12-27T14:10:00.006+08:00

foxcharlotte.com
By MIKE BRODY

(MYFOX NATIONAL) - Even though some people may not even consider her a celebrity, if you're judging by Twitter, Kim Kardashian is one of the biggest.

The Daily Mail reports that Kardashian earns a whopping $10,000 per tweet when she promotes companies. Kardashian, who has 2.7 million followers , earns the big bucks as part of her contract with in-stream advertising company Ad.ly, which helps celebrities make money off their Twitter accounts.

Usually the celebs are limited to one such commercial tweet per day.

Kardashian promotes Reebok and Carl's Jr., among other companies, and five of her last 30 tweets mention one of the companies.

An Advertising Age slideshow on online ad rates says there is a growing list of celebrities that "monetize" their tweets. Lauren Conrad and Dr. Drew have also enlisted the services of Ad.ly.

Kardashian recently sent a cease and desist letter to a doctor who created the "Cookie Diet" weight loss system. She is demanding the doctor take down a link on his company's Web site which suggests Kardashian uses the product.

Should You See Avatar? About 75 Percent Of People Who Tweet About It Think You Should

2009-12-27T14:00:00.005+08:00

techcrunch.com

James Cameron’s visually-thrilling Avatar started out modestly for a mega-Hollywood sci-fi blockbuster, pulling in only $27 million its first day at the box office (compared to $72 million for Twilight Saga: New Moon and $68 million for Transformers). But Avatar is the “iPhone of Movies,” as Michael likes to call it (I think he’s seen it four times already, and that is just what he’ll admit to on Yammer). He is not the only one enamored with the movie, which is now nearing $400 million in worldwide box office ticket sales.

If people who are Tweeting about the movie are any judge, about 75 percent of people are saying good things about it, according to Twitter Sentiment (a site which analyzes the sentiment of Tweets). You see roughly the same numbers on TweetFeel and other sentiment analysis sites.

Twitter is the new word of mouth. Twitter Sentiment counts 111,092 positive recent Tweets with the word “avatar,” compared to 37,434 negative ones. That is a pretty large sample size, and seems to be a fairly good proxy for overall sentiment. Some of these could be Tweets about avatars in general, but if you look at the actual Tweets, they are nearly all about the movie right now. Some representative Tweets:

@steveborn1: Avatar kicked ass. Best movie I have seen this year

@roguepuppet: @katiekillian avatar is amazing. Catch it in 3d if you can

@JuLiWong: Okay i agree with everyone, AVATAR is good. AWESOME actually! :)

@tubamasterj: i love avatar. why cant we live in a simple, beautiful world like pandora

@UzumundyRussuto: Avatar is way better the second time!!

@wam3studios: Avatar kicked ass………. Despite the acting

140 characters is really all you need for a movie review.

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Christmas tweets feature generational divide over Glenn Beck's influence

2009-12-27T13:52:00.005+08:00

examiner.com

Despite his claims that he is not a "polarizing figure" Glenn Beck seems to have caused some conflict between the older and younger generations. Many of the Christmas tweets involving Beck featured younger people saying something like "Oh God why do my parents love Glenn Beck?" A sampling of some of these tweets included:

HKnight86: Nothing says Christmas like driving to Louisiana with Dad
listening to Glenn Beck Radio, and talking back to it. Merry
Christmas, everyone."

MongooseML: @LiveRandom Mmmhmmm. D: I want to burn that Glenn Beck
book my mom got. She won't shut up."

TheUndomestic: @saeedjones My dad likes Glenn Beck, and thinks
O'Reilly is too "moderate." What?"

nuccbko: grandpa just gave me glenn beck's book. dislike."

derrickriley: It's awesome when family quotes Glenn Beck. Thank you
Fox News: Uneducating America for 50 years."

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Top Ten Tweets of 2009

2009-12-27T13:24:00.004+08:00

politico.com

This was the year that politics got Twitterized.

As recently as two years ago, critics were lamenting that the television sound-bite had reduced politics into a meaningless microscopic mash. But sound bites are positively long-winded compared to tweets. Now, pols and pundits are learning to grab headlines in just 140 characters or fewer.

Needless to say, it has taken some getting used to. Increasingly. Short. Bursts. Dominated the scene. Spelling and punctuation were abandoned entirely. Grown men began typing things like “U R Gr8,” against Twitter’s light-blue backdrop and bubble logo.

It was the kind of year in which President Barack Obama could admit, “I have never used Twitter,” even though his feed, @BarackObama, had more than 2.9 million followers. All of whom, apparently, have been suckered into believing they are following the real Barack Obama.

For all its power as a global communications medium (remember the Iranian street protesters?), Twitter’s greatest contribution to the national discourse to date has been the ability of people to put their feet in their mouths at record speed. The only thing faster than an embarrassing tweet, apparently, is the apology for an embarrassing tweet.

But pols learn quickly, which means 2010 will probably be a much less interesting political year on Twitter. And that, in a way, is a shame.
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1
Newt Gingrich

The former GOP speaker of the House got a little ahead of himself at 9:34 a.m. on May 27, when he declared that Supreme Court nominee Sonya Sotomayor was a “racist.”

“White man racist nominee would be forced to withdraw. Latina woman racist should also withdraw,” Gingrich tweeted. He was incensed over Sotomayor’s comment about a “wise Latina” being able to make a better decision than a white male because of her life experience.
.........

2
Terry Moran

It turns out that the happy chatter between the president and television correspondents before an interview begins is supposed to be off the record. Who knew? Not Terry Moran, the ABC Nightline co-anchor — and former White House correspondent — who tweeted his observations about some warm-up chatter between CNBC’s John Harwood and Obama in September.

"Pres. Obama just called Kanye West a 'jackass' for his outburst at VMAs when Taylor Swift won. Now THAT'S presidential," Moran tweeted.
.........

3
Sarah Palin*

Sarah Palin’s Aug. 7 statement that her Down syndrome baby could have to stand before an Obama death panel set off an intense firestorm of controversy. Some screamed that Palin was wildly distorting the facts. Others shouted that they wanted Palin to run for president. Either way, the volume was up, and the person people were talking about was Palin. Who, incidentally, had a book to sell.

Here’s the meat of Palin’s post on Facebook: “The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel' so his bureaucrats can decide, based on a subjective judgment of their 'level of productivity in society,' whether they are worthy of health care.”
.........

4
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa)

Apparently, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee didn’t like it when Obama decided to do a little sightseeing in Paris while Grassley was left in D.C., slaving over the health care bill.

Grassley took to his Twitter feed to deliver this 140-character broadside:

“Pres Obama while u sightseeing in Paris u said ‘time to delivr on healthcare’ When you are a 'hammer' u think evrything is NAIL I’m no NAIL”
.........

5
The White House

In the old days, when theWhite House wanted to call a press conference, the press secretary strode into the briefing room and gathered up the press corps. But now there is Twitter.

And so the White House made history of a sort when it broke the first official administration news on Twitter at 1:25 p.m. on July 17: “You heard it here first: Primetime presidential news conference at the White House, Wed. 7/22 @ 9PM EDT.”

That the news was fed to Twitter using Tweetie, a Twitter app for the iPhone, just gave the moment all the more high-tech luster.
.........

6
Jake Tapper

The ABC News White House Correspondent, who has pecked perhaps the most characters of any media Tweeter on Twitter, got into something of an ethical conundrum in March, when he was first to tweet the news about Obama’s gaffe about the Special Olympics during an interview with Jay Leno.

“Breaking- PrezObama on Leno jokes about being a bad bowler- says it's "like the Special Olympics or something" Tapper first Tweeted. “Preparing for day of hypocrisy: conservs who would normally defend the SpecOlymp joke acting offended, liberals saying lighten up. Sigh”

When TPM Muckraker’s David Kurtz said he didn’t like the Tapper Tweets, Tapper blocked Kurtz from his feed. That set off a minor Internet kerfuffle, at the end of which Tapper had unblocked Kurtz and a key piece of Twitter etiquette had been established. Don’t block your critics, even if they’re annoying.

“I’m trying to use Twitter as a way to communicate with all sorts of people from all over the political spectrum, as a place for feedback, polite argument, and dialogue,” Tapper explained in a statement at the time.
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Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.)

The post itself was unremarkable, but Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) gave it an unforgettable moniker: “The smoking tweet.”
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George Stephanopoulos

On March 17, ABC’s George Stephanopoulos (who was still only the host of "This Week" and not yet of "Good Morning America") conducted what might be the world’s first political Twitterview, an interview with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) conducted entirely on Twitter.
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Andrew Breitbart

The conservative commentator’s first instinct on hearing of the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) was to take to his Twitter feed and unleash a torrent of invective.

“Rest in Chappaquiddick,” Breitbart wrote at 10:42 p.m. on Aug. 25. But he wasn’t done. Breitbart went on to call Kennedy “a special pile of human excrement.”

Despite some criticism, Breitbart was unapologetic. After POLITICO’s Michael Calderone posted a story noting “Not all Kennedy critics hold fire,” Breitbart tweeted again on Aug. 26: “Boy, POLITICO missed my best ones!”
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Iranian protesters

“It was a nightmare, I can barely breath & my face is burning, Masood got shot in the arm & Shayan's brother is missing,” wrote a Twitter user calling himself Iranian Student on the Twitter feed Change_for_Iran on June 20. That and thousands of other tweets from Iranians frustrated with the country’s disputed election that month showed Twitter’s potential. Even as they were coordinating marches and fearing for their lives, the protesters made sure to provide regular updates to the world.

“This event has been Twitter’s finest hour,” wrote the blogger Andrew Sullivan.

And no one apologized for that at all.

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Google Voice returning to the iPhone via the browser

2009-12-26T07:47:00.004+08:00

Having your application pulled from the Apple iTunes App Store can’t keep a good developer down, just ask Riverturn.

Many people lamented when the Google Voice service was banned from the iPhone app store, especially the developers of applications who got caught in the dust up between Google and Apple. It’s been several months now since the skirmish, and while the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is still looking into what exactly happened, Riverturn is returning its VoiceCentral app to the iPhone, it’s just via the browser this time.

People who miss the ease of the VoiceCentral application will be happy to learn that there is now a mobile Web version of the tool in private beta according to The Washing Post. The new version exists completely on the Web, so it is totally outside of the control of Apple. This also means that if Riverturn should ever charge for access, Apple will receive no revenue.

According to the report, the new version of the app will allow you to do everything the old one could do except for accessing your Google Voice Contacts. You can still read transcribed messages, texting and, of course, making calls. The new way the call features work is to call your iPhone at the same time it is calling the party you are attempting to contact. This will still use your minutes on your phone, but at least you will be able to go through Google Voice if you so choose.

Brands Begin to Embrace Online Video Ads

2009-12-24T05:04:00.003+08:00

Brands Begin to Embrace Online Video Ads
The potential to reach consumers with more creative and less expensive advertisements has brands exploring viral marketing.
(nacsonline)

NORCROSS, Ga. – While television audiences will not see Pretzelmaker’s newest music video, online viewers can groove to the four-minute ad made by a 16-year-old amateur artist, Nation’s Restaurant News reports. The video advertises the chain’s “4 Buck Hook Up” promotion on the Pretzelmaker’s Web site and YouTube.

More and more businesses are turning to online messages to create buzz about promotions and products for a fraction of the cost of traditional advertising. “TV doesn’t really give us the best return on investment…Pretzelmaker is more of an impulse purchase; it’s not like you saw it on TV and decided to go get one,” said Jenn Johnston, senior vice president of brand marketing for NexCen Franchise Management, parent of Pretzelmaker.

With YouTube accounting for up to 10 percent of all Internet traffic, online videos are a good return on investment. For companies like Pretzelmaker, the ability to spread its message inexpensively was worth exploring.

The online video “was a minimal expense on our part and a way to engage teens that allows them to have their own conversations about it,” said Johnston. “If it came from the musician himself, it would seem less promotional and more like something they’d get excited about.”

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Asia leads as global beer consumption grows 1.2%

2009-12-22T07:44:00.006+08:00

Tues 22nd December
07:00 AM JST
TOKYO

Global beer consumption grew 1.2% in 2008 from the preceding year to 178.06 million kiloliters, breaking the record for the 23rd straight year, Kirin Holdings Co said Monday. The number is equivalent to 144 times the cubic volume of the Tokyo Dome baseball stadium, according to the Kirin Institute of Food & Lifestyle, a Kirin Holdings research arm that annually compiles relevant data.

By region, Asia became the world’s biggest beer-consuming area for the first time with 56.43 million kl, up 3%, overtaking the Europeans who drank 54.85 million kl, down 0.8%. China, which accounted for a 40.82 million-kl portion of the Asian consumption, took the top slot on the world’s beer-drinking countries’ ranking list for the sixth consecutive year. Japan was Asia’s second-largest beer consumer with 6.11 million kl.

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Chrome: The new colour of OS

2009-12-13T04:25:00.004+08:00

by; Ajai Sreevatsan

CHENNAI: There is a new kid in the Operating System (OS) block. The source code of Chromium OS, the open source project behind Google Chrome OS, was released a couple of weeks ago and, according to the official Google blog, netbooks preloaded with the finished OS will be available by late 2010.

It will support both x86 (Intel) as well as ARM chips and, from the looks of the early release, the interface will sport a Spartan aesthetic – similar to Google’s browser.

Google is consulting a variety of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to design machines with “specific reference hardware.” This will skip a lot of the hardware checking steps that standard operating systems run through. In some of the test runs, the OS booted up in under seven seconds. The platform is based on a Linux kernel which will self-check and self-update at every boot.

But what does all the guesswork about the final technical specifications and the anticipated use of emerging technologies such as HTML 5 really mean to you?

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Supreme grabs the latest from Nokia this Christmas: Nokia hits all the right ...

2009-12-13T04:17:00.002+08:00

Philippine Star - ‎1 hour ago‎

MANILA, Philippines - Nokia introduces Nokia 5530 XpressMusic, a compact XpressMusic device that uses a touch interface for accessing people and content on the brilliantly clear homescreen.

he scroll contacts bar provides direct access to 20 people and their latest conversations and media updates. The homescreen also features one touch shortcuts to content and popular social networks like MySpace and Twitter. The Nokia 5530 XpressMusic follows in the footsteps of the top-rated Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, expanding the touch XpressMusic phone range with a youthful device that has a solid stainless steel frame finish and comes in three vivid colors: black with red accents, white with blue accents and white with pink accents.

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Obama calls for $200B for jobs

2009-12-09T04:21:00.004+08:00

Obama calls for $200B for jobs

by cbc.ca
canadian press

U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday proposed increased stimulus spending aimed at U.S. job creation.

He asked Congress to approve a three-part program, much of it aimed at small business.

Obama said staggering job losses mean the country must continue to "spend our way out of this recession" with a round of new incentives. The U.S. unemployment rate is 10 per cent.

His program includes a one-year elimination of capital gains taxes, deductions for up to $250,000 in investment and increased deductions for capital spending, all aimed at small firms. The program would also provide tax incentives for firms that create jobs and easier terms for borrowing.

Obama also called for increased spending on roads, bridges, and other infrastructure and incentives for homeowners who retrofit their properties to use clean energy or become more energy efficient.

Samsung Launches Bada Smartphone Platform

2009-12-09T03:51:00.002+08:00

Samsung Launches Bada Smartphone Platform

By Gustav Sandstrom
Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES

South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co. (005930.SE), the world's second-largest handset maker by shipments, Tuesday launched its new smartphone platform, named bada, as the focus of the cellphone industry increasingly shifts to software.

Bada, which means ocean in Korean, includes a support platform for software developers, as the company aims to catch up with rival systems that offer an easy to use and feature-packed interface for applications such as games, the Internet, location-based services and music.

Driven by the success of Apple Inc's (AAPL) iPhone and its App Store, phone makers and wireless operators have started to push their service offerings hard.

Samsung's bada includes motion sensing, face detection, social networking and other interactive features, and its launch coincides with a challenge by the company to developers to win a share of a $2.7 million prize fund by using bada's features to build applications.

Development partners for bada include Twitter and games companies EA Mobile, a unit of Electronic Arts Inc. (ERTS), and France's Gameloft (GFT.FR).

The platform provides an opportunity for developers "to get their applications onto an unprecedented number of Samsung devices across the world," said Hosoo Lee, Executive Vice President of Samsung Electronics' Media Solution Center.

Samsung will initially launch bada-based touch screen phones for the mid-range segment and thereafter on lower-end devices, Hosoo Lee told Dow Jones Newswires Tuesday.

He said bada phones will mainly be released in Asia and Europe in the first half of 2010, followed by other markets later, but Samsung had yet to determine a more detailed roadmap or set of targets.

The company will gradually expand the number of bada handsets but will also continue to use other platforms such as Microsoft Corp's (MSFT) Windows Mobile, Google Inc's (GOOG) Android and Symbian, said Lee, adding that the company still hasn't decided whether it will open up bada to other mobile phone manufacturers and operators.

Asian Tech Stock Weekly Review (November 30– December 6, 2009)

2009-12-09T02:47:00.004+08:00

Asian Tech Stock Weekly Review (November 30– December 6, 2009)

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Japan
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Hardware
• Sony Corp.
• Toshiba Business Solutions Inc. (TBS) (TOSBF.PK)
• Panasonic Corp. (PC) will invest US$1 billion by 2012
• Tokyo Electron Ltd. (TOELF.PK)
• Orders for Japanese-made semiconductor-manufacturing equipment placed by domestic and overseas chipmakers in October logged the first rise since February 2007
• Following its planned purchase of rechargeable-battery maker Sanyo Electric Co., Panasonic Corp. is.........

Telecommunications
• NTT Docomo (DCM) has bought back 154,065 of its own shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange for 19.99 billion yen (US$220 million)

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Korea
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Media, Gaming and Entertainment
• Neowiz has obtained exclusive operating rights for The9's (NCTY)

Hardware
• Sales of Samsung Electronics’ full touchscreen mobile phones surpassed 50 million units so far this year.

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China
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Software
• China's software industry revenues grew 20.2 percent year-on-year in the first ten months of 2009.
• CDC Software Corp. (CDCS)

Internet
• China recorded 14.5 billion yuan (US$2.1 million) in online advertising revenues in the first three quarters of the year.
• According to the Digitimes reports citing a survey by China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) ...
• Made-in-China.com is eyeing an initial public offering (IPO) on a mainland stock exchange to raise 1.2 billion yuan (US$175.8 million).

Mobile/Wireless
• According to the Digitimes who cited a study by Analysys International, China Mobile (CHL) was the largest provider of mobile e-mail services, accounting for 72.26 percent of mobile e-mail users.
• Linktone (LTON) had third-quarter net revenues boost to US$13.3 million from US$16 million in the year-earlier quarter.
• According to Interfax, Lenovo Mobile Communication Technology Co. Ltd. (LNVGY.PK) ranked fifth among handset manufacturers in terms of domestic GSM handset shipments in China in October....
• Lenovo Group will pay US$200 million to reacquire its mobile phone business that it spun off one and half years ago, from a group of investors led by Hony Capital.

Telecommunications
• According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), China ended October with 729.537 million mobile telephony subscribers, 16.30 percent increase year-on-year.

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Google QR codes to appear in a store window near you (w/ Video)

2009-12-09T02:36:00.003+08:00

Google QR codes to appear in a store window near you (w/ Video)
by Lin Edwards

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google recently sent out 100,000 stickers to selected US businesses for use on their storefront windows. The stickers have the Google Maps logo and a QR code that can be scanned by smart phone cameras and display Google listings for the business on the phone screen.

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McDonald’s Sales Trail Estimates as Asia Results Drop – Bloomberg

2009-12-09T02:23:00.004+08:00

McDonald’s Sales Trail Estimates as Asia Results Drop – Bloomberg

By Courtney Dentch

Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- McDonald’s Corp. fell the most in more than four months after global November sales showed the smallest monthly gain in at least five years, missing analysts’ estimates.

McDonald’s fell $1.66, or 2.7 percent, to $60.27 at 9:51 a.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. Earlier it slipped as much as 3.1 percent, the biggest intraday drop since July 23. It had lost less than 1 percent this year before today.

Sales at global stores open at least 13 months rose 0.7 percent. U.S. sales declined 0.6 percent, while Europe climbed 2.5 percent, the Oak Brook, Illinois-based company said in a statement today. Sales in Asia, the Middle East and Africa fell 1 percent.

It was the second straight month of declines in U.S. sales as consumers curbed spending and as high unemployment rates trimmed sales at breakfast and lunch. Orders off the company’s dollar menu have been hurt by rivals’ offers, such as Burger King Holdings Inc.’s $1 double cheeseburger. The Asia region posted its first decline since August as Japan and China sales slowed.

Twitter Tweets about Freelance Writing

2009-12-08T20:56:00.006+08:00

I found all this twitter tweets about freelance writing

"Twitter Tweets about Freelance Writing as of December 6, 2009 «
Freelance Writing Tweets « Digests « Fast Cash Freelance
Learn All About Freelance Writing"

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7 steps to identify scammers.-Alibaba Trade Forums

2009-12-02T22:26:00.001+08:00

7 steps to identify scammers.
from Alibaba Trade Forums
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How To Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

2009-12-02T05:42:00.001+08:00

How To Create the Perfect Facebook Fan Page »
by Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

This is a guest post by Jesse Stay, founder and CEO of SocialToo.com and all around great Facebook Fan Page coder. He’s volunteered to give away a copy of his recent book, FBML Essentials, to two readers. Scroll down to the end of the post for details on how to win.

Marketers love Facebook. With 350 million+ users, a self-promoting and natural way to have people promote your product, and a very active audience full of close friends and family, what’s not to like? If you had any doubt, just go on over to their stats page and see for yourself why it is something you want as part of your marketing strategy.

The best place you can place your brand on Facebook is through a Facebook Page (that’s with a capital “P”, not to be confused with your personal Profile). As of the time of this writing, over 10 million users become fans of Fan Pages every day. This number should be no surprise — when people “fan” your Page, their friends see it, and your brand spreads organically. What most don’t know is that you can customize this experience for your users. With just a little work, and either some knowledge of simple HTML or the ability to hire a developer to do the work for you, you can have a custom Page up for your business in no time. Here are some tips you can apply to your Facebook marketing strategy that will put your Facebook Page leaps and bounds ahead of the competition:

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Rocking With Facebook | The Big Money

2009-12-02T05:09:00.000+08:00

Rocking With Facebook | The Big Money

Small businesses, too, can use social media to their advantage.

By Jonathan Weber

Posted Tuesday, December 1, 2009 - 10:08am

The live-music business in a college town like Missoula, Mont., is not nearly as easy as it looks. Sure, there’s a ready pool of patrons for good music and drinking and dancing, but they don’t have much money, and there’s a lot of competition for the evening entertainment dollar. As a result, several mainstays of the Missoula local music scene have gone out of business in recent years.

The Badlander, a two-year-old bar and live music venue that occupies one of the better club spaces in downtown Missoula, seems destined to avoid that fate. Owned by four youthful partners, the club features multiple stages and a lot of clever ideas on how to bring people in the door. And one of its not-so-secret weapons is Facebook.

Colin Hickey, the booking agent and the man responsible for its Facebook strategy, says the Badlander has about 3,000 fans on Facebook. A companion venue that’s part of the same club, The Palace, has about 1,600.

The most obvious use of the Facebook page is to get the word out about upcoming shows. Hickey does one posting a day on Facebook about what’s happening that night, but he keeps a tight limit on formal “invitations.”

“We decided early on that we didn’t want to bombard people with event invitations,” says Hickey. “As Facebook users ourselves, we know that can be very annoying. We have about 20 shows a month, and you don’t want to send 20 invitations a month or people will start to hide from you.”

Instead, he relies on the basic “status update” for the daily post, and uses invitations just two or three times a month when a show needs an extra push—or when he’s trying to get a sense of how many people to expect. ... (more)

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New Version of MySQL Enterprise Allows DBAs to Graphically Drill-Down into Database Bottlenecks to Improve Application Performance

2009-11-30T14:38:00.000+08:00

New Version of MySQL Enterprise Allows DBAs to Graphically Drill-Down into Database Bottlenecks to Improve Application Performance

SINGAPORE – September 23, 2009 – Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced an update to its MySQL Enterprise subscription, designed to assist corporate users improve the speed and uptime of their MySQL database applications. Thirty-day trial subscriptions of the new MySQL Enterprise Fall 2009 Release are now available free-of-charge from http://www.mysql.com/trials.

Graphical enhancements to the MySQL Enterprise Monitor's Query Analyzer help DBAs and developers to better pinpoint database queries to avoid performance problems. With new visual correlation graphs, problem queries can now be filtered and analyzed by highlighting specific time-periods of interest with a few mouse-clicks - making it easier to quickly find spikes in key system resources, and fix problems rooted in inefficient SQL code.

MySQL Enterprise: Features & Benefits
A MySQL Enterprise subscription is a comprehensive set of software and services, consisting of:

MySQL Enterprise Server Software -- the most reliable, secure and up-to-date version of the world's most popular open source database. MySQL Enterprise subscribers receive monthly software updates, quarterly service packs, and emergency hot fix builds.
MySQL Enterprise Monitor -- A dynamically-delivered "Virtual DBA Assistant" which continuously monitors the health of a user's database servers, alerting them to -- and helping them solve -- potential problems before they can impact critical applications. In addition to the Query Analyzer, the MySQL Enterprise Monitor features a Replication Monitor; a set of proactive MySQL Advisors with over 130 best-practice rules; and a gallery of more than 30 graphs to help give IT departments greater insight into their distributed database environments.
Enterprise-class Production Support -- Addressing the concerns of many IT organizations using open source technology, Sun provides 24x7 telephone, Knowledge Base, and Web support - directly from the developers of MySQL software. Users can also track open support issues using optional live feeds that are sent directly to the MySQL Enterprise Monitor.

"We've designed the MySQL Enterprise subscription to provide maximum peace-of-mind for MySQL database administrators," said Robin Schumacher, head of MySQL product management for Sun Microsystems. "MySQL Enterprise is a highly-affordable way to support the scalability, performance and uptime requirements of today's online applications."

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See The Video Launch Of The New Oracle Exadata V2 Database Machine

2009-11-30T14:30:00.000+08:00

See The Video Launch Of The New Oracle Exadata V2 Database Machine

The new Oracle Exadata V2 combines Oracle software and Sun hardware - including Sun's innovative FlashFire technology - to provide the world's first database machine for online transaction processing (OLTP). Available in a range of configurations, the Oracle Exadata V2 offers a complete, integrated computing infrastructure that's designed to deliver massive speed increases for OLTP, data warehousing and mixed database workloads. ..

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How to find a better suggested users list for Twitter

2009-11-22T19:14:00.000+08:00

How to find a better suggested users list for Twitter
By Partho

Are you one those who has been remonstrating against Twitter's suggested users list feature? You can have a sigh of relief now, as the microblogging giant has decided to hark back the feature. The list introduced newbies to the Twitterati's including celebrities, sports personalities and politicians. Why on earth would you follow what the co-founder Biz Stone suggests in the list. Choosing whom to follow on Twitter lies on your personal taste. This was only realized when Twitter poked into frisked through it's retention rates that has declined in past. Well, if you are looking for a better alternative just go through.

Initially, Twitter provided the list to help them. As the Biz Stone writes in the Twitter blog.

About a month or so ago we noticed a certain percentage of new users were signing up and then not following anyone. When you don't follow any other accounts on Twitter the product is not as relevant as it could be. To improve the user experience, we started suggesting some accounts to follow. ..

However, with time the suggestive feature flared up controversies. Evidently the list was personalized and seemed biased in certain instances. Clearly, if someone doesn't find John Hodgman interesting which Twitter thinks he/she is at complete loss. You might not enjoy the service that doesn't suggest people of your interest like what you get in Facebook. Simply you might find no reason to continue the service.

Now that Twitter is looking to better its suggestion list, in the meantime we can look for an alternative. Although not a front-runner Twellow seems a prospect, which offers suggested users for Twitter on more personalized level. This could be quite useful. It's designed to connect Twitterers with similar interests.

As for now, if you are waiting for Twitter's revamped suggested user list, you can rely on Biz Stone's words

in its stead will be something that is more programmatically chosen, something that actually delivers more relevant suggestions.

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Bebo introduces onscreen panic button to report abuse instantly

2009-11-22T18:32:00.000+08:00

Bebo introduces onscreen panic button to report abuse instantly

By ANI

November 22nd, 2009

LONDON - Social networking site Bebo has set up a special onscreen panic button for users to report abuse without delay.
The pressing of the button will alert specially trained officers at the Government's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.
The centre's chief executive has advocated other sites like Facebook and MySpace to start a similar facility.
"This service is totally free so there's no legitimate reason for these sites NOT to do it. They have a duty of care to the young," the News of the World quoted him as saying.
Bebo has total number of 21 million users. (ANI)

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Twitter’s New Headquarters As Shown Off By Employees (Pictures)

2009-11-21T06:15:00.000+08:00

Twitter’s New Headquarters As Shown Off By Employees (Pictures)
by MG Siegler
on November 16, 2009

Today, Twitter moved into a new, much larger office in San Francisco. The space, which was previously Bebo’s SF office, is right around the corner from their old one.

A few members of the Twitter team spent much of the weekend decorating the new digs with a number of Twitter-themed elements like birds and @ symbols. Check out some of the pictures being posted to the web by Twitter employees below. And yes, there is a DJ booth — and apparently vanity mirrors in the toilet stalls.

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AP Sources: MySpace in talks to buy imeem - BusinessWeek

2009-11-21T05:48:00.000+08:00

AP Sources: MySpace in talks to buy imeem - BusinessWeek
By RYAN NAKASHIMA
LOS ANGELES

Online social hub MySpace is in talks to acquire struggling free music streaming site imeem, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.

The people spoke on condition of anonymity because talks are confidential.

An announcement could be weeks away, and terms are still being negotiated, but MySpace is trying to revamp itself and its MySpace Music joint venture with the major recording companies.

An acquisition could bolster the unit of News Corp. by adding imeem's approximately 4.5 million users, its technology and its executives, including founder and CEO Dalton Caldwell.

MySpace recently bought music recommendation service iLike for $20 million and gave the founding Partovi brothers new executive roles.

News of the talks was reported earlier by the blog TechCrunch.

San Francisco-based imeem launched its advertising-supported free music business in 2007, but the company is having trouble making ends meet. Users create profiles and can recommend music to others or find out what they're listening to, similar to users of MySpace Music.

As a unit of media giant News Corp., MySpace would be better able to support any losses at the company stemming from royalties owed to recording companies than it could on its own. It's unclear what price MySpace would pay for the service, but one person said it was unlikely to be as much as MySpace paid for iLike. .....

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Early Market Testing Can Benefit Health Care - BusinessWeek

2009-11-21T05:39:00.000+08:00

Early Market Testing Can Benefit Health Care - BusinessWeek

Before seeking FDA approval, drug and medical device companies could avoid costly mistakes by seeing if their ideas will fly with patients
By Stephen Wunker and Joe Sinfield

Health-care companies often think experimentation is for the lab bench. Drug discovery and development requires remorseless trial-and-error—and only about 1 in every 10,000 compounds created will eventually make it to market. But once a molecule emerges from that process, experimentation tends to cease.

With tight regulatory supervision and a product pipeline that typically yields only a small handful of new launches each year, pharmaceutical companies invest heavily in the few products that do emerge. A typical drug launch can easily cost tens of millions of dollars or more. With patent expiration dates dictating the product life cycle literally to the day, firms want to maximize sales while they can. ..

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Facebook Marketing Tactics

2009-11-21T05:29:00.000+08:00

Facebook Marketing Tactics
by Lisa Barone

How is Facebook different than Google? You’re targeting who people are instead of targeting keywords. You have a viral multiplier because friends will see it in their feed and be able to become a fan. Pricing is different. The sophisticated of targeting is different. Google is like driving a car. Facebook is like flying a plane because you’re getting the back end of who people are based on their interests.

He asks who’s used Facebook Lexicon – a FB keyword research tool. Not that many people raise their hands...

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Profile Attributes as a Keyword
Facebook Local Ads
Ad Multiplication
Interest Targeting

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Facebook Marketing 101 - Search Engine Watch (SEW)

2009-11-21T05:12:00.000+08:00

Facebook Marketing 101 - Search Engine Watch (SEW)

By Ron Jones, Search Engine

After you've mastered the basics of Facebook and set up Facebook fan pages for your business, it's time to promote your fan pages and identify ways to be found in real time search results.

Is customer loyalty important to you? Have you ever wondered about which sources provide loyal visitors who will repeatedly return to your site?

Chitika analyzed the browsing habits of 33 million unique visitors during September. They found that Facebook provides the most loyal visitors, with 20 percent of those who originate from the social network in turn visiting the site they landed on four or more times in a week. Other notable social media sites include Digg at 16 percent and Twitter at 11 percent.

This should help you feel better about the time you invest marketing on Facebook. Now let's look at some ways to promote your Facebook fan page.

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How Oakley Takes Aim at the Luxury Market - BusinessWeek

2009-11-21T04:40:00.000+08:00

How Oakley Takes Aim at the Luxury Market - BusinessWeek

The company's high-end sunglasses lead the way in bold design for new products at Italian parent Luxottica
By Damian Joseph

Neil Ferrier, 25, had graduated from the Scotland's University of Strathclyde in Glasgow only six months earlier when he was asked in 2007 to work on the kind of project that even senior design engineers dream about. His assignment: to create the most technologically advanced line of products possible—no matter what the cost. "Sadly, it's not normal, but it's something every engineer wants," he says. "It's far too common for designers to be stifled."

Ferrier's offer came from Oakley's Advance Product Development Team, a group responsible for many of the cutting-edge sunglasses, watches, boots, and apparel that the Foothill Ranch (Calif.) company has sold over the past decade. The team of five designers and engineers is given complete financial and creative freedom to pursue breakthroughs in materials and manufacturing processes that could propel sales of luxury items, shape the design of less expensive product lines, and most important, reinforce the brand's progressive image. "This is the foundation of our success," declares Oakley Chief Executive Colin Baden.

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SEO For Yahoo! | SEO Articles by Beanstalk

2009-11-21T04:17:00.002+08:00

SEO For Yahoo! | SEO Articles by Beanstalk

This article is part two of a four part series on optimizing your website for the the three major search engines. Part one, titled "SEO For MSN" covered optimizing your website to rank highly on MSN. In this article we will cover optimizing your website for Yahoo!

Yahoo! is the second biggest of the three major engines and includes an enormous network of websites. The algorithm is based on that of Inktomi which Yahoo! purchased back in 2002 as part of their plan to stop serving Google results to search queries. The algorithm itself can pose a problem for some SEO's as we optimize client website to rank highly on multiple search engines due to the way that it deffers from Google and MSN. That said, any issue can be addressed provided that the right attention is given to the right details. ...

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SEO Asia - SEO in Asia - SEO Philippines - SEO Outsourcing

2009-11-21T04:07:00.000+08:00

SEO Asia - SEO in Asia - SEO Philippines - SEO Outsourcing

A business solution for all
by jamesbaldonaza

Business and trading has been ever changing and evolving. Modern business concepts and strategies are very different from the early ways and concept of early trading days. Evolving from barter, free trade, and now to modern that involve unique business concepts with much more documentary and scientific approaches like market potential, feasibility studies, sales reports, expenditure tracking and financial analysis, surely business is a very complex and complicated thing to think of. And it’s a fact that most business people nowadays are craving for a solution to lessen the burdens of handling their businesses especially those who have multiple outlets or branches scattered around the world. And another thing is marketing ads that cost a hefty sum for companies that would need to advertize them either in print or in media, a true make or break move for companies that are either striving because off the economic meltdown and the ones that are just beginning to make it big in the business world. It is crucial to handle both management and marketing problems such as this to drive your business to success.
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Map Asia 2010

2009-11-21T03:57:00.001+08:00

Map Asia 2010

The Map Asia 2010 will be held on 20 - 22 July at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The conference is jointly organised with ISG 2010. More information will be uploaded soon.

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Dell Stock Gains May Slacken - BusinessWeek

2009-11-21T03:39:00.000+08:00

Dell Stock Gains May Slacken - BusinessWeek

The rally that's lifted the computer maker's shares 55% this year may lose steam after a report indicated corporate demand for PCs isn't as robust as hoped
By Aaron Ricadela

An eight-month climb in Dell's stock price may slacken after the computer maker tempered a previously upbeat forecast of business demand for PCs.

Dell (DELL) reported on Nov. 19 that sales sank 15% and net income tumbled 54% in its fiscal third quarter, which ended Oct. 30. What's more, Chief Executive Michael Dell suggested during a conference call after the results that businesses would take more time than previously expected to replace old computers with newer models running Microsoft's (MSFT) new Windows 7 operating system. "It won't all occur at once," he said.

The remarks contrasted with the CEO's contention in August that the PC industry would enter a "powerful product cycle" in 2010 that would benefit Dell. Wall Street "is going to feel like Michael Dell backed off a little bit on his comments on the replacement cycle," says one securities analyst, who asked not to be named since he hadn't yet published a research report on the quarter. "People are not going to like that." Dell's results look especially disappointing in light of a positive earnings report issued by rival Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) on Nov. 11.

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Vodafone's Indian Dilemma - BusinessWeek

2009-11-21T03:30:00.001+08:00

Vodafone's Indian Dilemma - BusinessWeek

It's signing up plenty of new customers, but price wars are putting a serious crimp in the carrier's margins

by Mehul Srivastava and Mark Scott

Delhi - Ruchira Sharma should be any mobile-phone company's dream. She has two cell-phone numbers and endless gossip to share with friends and family across the country. Problem is, she's in India, where calling rates are less than a penny a minute, by far the lowest in the world. So her carrier—Vodafone Essar, a unit of Britain's Vodafone Group (VOD)—isn't making much from her gabbing. "It's fantastic," says the 19-year-old student. "I spent 330 rupees [about $7] in October, and I talk for hours."..

Fantastic for her, but less so for a key Vodafone strategy. In May 2007 the company paid $11.2 billion for 67% of what would become Vodafone Essar. The Indian operation was the centerpiece of an ambitious expansion in emerging markets to make up for slowing sales in Europe. Vodafone, though, didn't factor in a price war that in October culminated in 50% cuts in rates and a switch to per-second billing (instead of one-minute increments—a big saving for people who make short calls). "Emerging markets can no longer offset problems at home," says Emeka Obiodu, an analyst at Ovum, a telecom advisory firm in London. "There's now too much competition for easy growth."

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Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Larry Page, Google - Eric Schmidt, Google - Globalization: Google and Asia-Pacific

2009-11-21T03:18:00.000+08:00

Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Larry Page, Google - Eric Schmidt, Google - Globalization: Google and Asia-Pacific

Globalization: Google and Asia-Pacific
Google increasingly has a global focus; as of 2002, traffic is now around 60% outside of the United States and growing. The search supports 74 languages, including many Asian languages, says CEO Eric Schmidt. There is tremendous growth in Japan, where the majority of portals and online services now use Google. ...

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Facebook Grows in Asia, Tops Google in Most Visited List in 5 Countries

2009-11-21T03:13:00.000+08:00

Facebook Grows in Asia, Tops Google in Most Visited List in 5 Countries

by:bhupendra

Facebook has found a new base, Asia, where it is growing the fastest. Not to any surprise, it has topped the Most Visited List in 5 Asian emerging nations. It has surpassed Yahoo and Google, the two companies believed to be irreplaceable by many analysts.

Here are the nations where Facebook performs best.

Barring the three main Asian Countries – India, China and Japan – Facebook has outperformed better than Google and Yahoo in most populous countries. ....

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Google partners Singapore's LTA for Maps - CNET Asia

2009-11-21T02:44:00.000+08:00

Google partners Singapore's LTA for Maps - CNET Asia
By Damian Koh, CNET Asia

SINGAPORE--Google and Singapore's Land Transport Authority (LTA) have entered into a partnership that aims to help commuters in Singapore get to their destinations faster.

Speaking at a press event held at the Dhoby Ghaut MRT station this morning, LTA chief executive Yam Ah Mee said the transport authority collaborates with "as many partners as possible with the sole aim of making sure that the commuters benefit the most". He also said the statutory board is working toward a "people-centered transport system". ...

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Google Top Search Engine In The Asia-Pacific Region | WebProNews

2009-11-21T02:35:00.001+08:00

Google Top Search Engine In The Asia-Pacific Region | WebProNews

Google Top Search Engine In The Asia-Pacific Region

Google has 44% of the search market in Asia-Pacific region

By Mike Sachoff

Internet users in the Asia-Pacific region conducted a record 38.6 billion searches in September, with searchers averaging nearly 88 queries per person, according to a new report from comScore.

Google sites ranked as the top search destination with nearly 17 billion searches on its sites during the month, representing a 44.1 percent share of all searches in the region. Baidu landed in the second spot with 8.2 billion searches (21.3% share), while Yahoo sites ranked third with 5.3 billion searches (13.8% share).......

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LDK Solar completes sale of 15 pct stake in Chinese plant for $219 million

2009-11-21T02:25:00.000+08:00

LDK Solar completes sale of 15 pct stake in Chinese plant for $219 million

NEW YORK — LDK Solar Co. Ltd., a Chinese maker of parts for solar cells, on Friday said it completed the sale of a 15 percent ownership stake in a polysilicon plant in China for about $219 million.

LDK Solar said that it has received unspecified proceeds from the sale.

Earlier this week LDK Solar, which sold its interest in the Xinyu City, China, plant to Jiangxi International Trust and Investment Co., said the deal will strengthen its financial position and increase its operating flexibility in the short term.

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Chromium OS Now Open Sourced

2009-11-21T02:21:00.001+08:00

Chromium OS Now Open Sourced

In July we announced that we were working on a project called Google Chrome OS, an open source operating system based on the Google Chrome browser and built for today's web. For the past few months we have been working hard on developing a solid foundation and today we are excited to announce the Chromium OS open source project. ..

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Steel of West Virginia to lay off 53 workers, cites economy, winter construction slowdown

2009-11-21T02:14:00.001+08:00

Steel of West Virginia to lay off 53 workers, cites economy, winter construction slowdown

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — More than 50 Steel of West Virginia Inc. workers will be out of work by the end of November.

President Tim Duke said the layoffs of 53 workers will leave the company with about 300 employees.

Duke attributed the layoffs to a weak economy and a slowdown of construction and highway projects during the winter...

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Boracay Tour Top 5 On Google

2009-11-18T21:22:00.000+08:00

Boracay Tour Top 5 On Google

Boracay Tour Top 5 On Google. Boracay Island - Hot Spots, Virtual Boracay tourVirtual Boracay Island of the Philippines
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Manny Pacquiao win gives Philippines reason to celebrate

2009-11-17T02:54:00.000+08:00

Manny Pacquiao win gives Philippines reason to celebrate

sportsillustrated.cnn.com — MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Filipinos erupted into deafening cheers in bars, gymnasiums and army camps Sunday as Manny Pacquiao -- their boxing hero -- relentlessly pounded Puerto Rican Miguel Cotto to win his seventh title in as many weight classes... || shared via AsiaClassifiedToday.com / GeeSparks.com / PhilippinesMarketplace.com

Govt raises bar for migrant kids -nzherald.co.nz

2009-11-17T02:52:00.000+08:00

Govt raises bar for migrant kids -nzherald.co.nz

nzherald.co.nz — Work-permit-holders in the lower income bracket will find it a lot tougher to put their children in New Zealand schools from next month. Immigration policy changes taking effect on November 30 will mean.. || shared via AsiaClassifiedToday.com / GeeSparks.com / PhilippinesMarketPlace.com

UBS raises RP growth forecast despite typhoon damage

2009-10-06T17:34:00.001+08:00

UBS raises RP growth forecast despite typhoon damage

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UBS raises growth forecast for RP

2009-10-06T17:20:00.001+08:00

UBS raises growth forecast for RP

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Storm impact tempers growth outlook

2009-10-06T17:17:00.001+08:00

Storm impact tempers growth outlook

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Higher RP growth seen despite 'Ondoy'

2009-10-06T15:19:00.001+08:00

Higher RP growth seen despite 'Ondoy'

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Bank and Google Settle, Gmail User Still Waiting

2009-09-29T13:43:00.001+08:00

Bank and Google Settle, Gmail User Still Waiting

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Stocks In Focus For Monday

2009-09-28T07:57:00.000+08:00

Stocks In Focus For Monday: "Stocks In Focus For Monday"

The Week's Top 10 Videos On MarketWatch

2009-09-28T03:09:00.000+08:00

The Week's Top 10 Videos On MarketWatch: "The Week's Top 10 Videos On MarketWatch"

SmarterMail

2009-09-22T01:38:00.000+08:00

SmarterMail: "SmarterTools' SmarterMail message server software is less expensive than Exchange with exactly the right amount of power and ease of use for small businesses.

Manila's city hospital to open in the 3rd district

2009-09-21T10:18:00.000+08:00

Manila's city hospital to open in the 3rd district: "Residents of the third district of Manila will soon enjoy having their own hospital to run to for medical and..."

Fund Investors Lose Money -- And Lawsuits

2009-09-21T10:14:00.000+08:00

Fund Investors Lose Money -- And Lawsuits: "Fund Investors Lose Money -- And Lawsuits"

Chaos seen in SC ruling on premature campaign

2009-09-18T00:16:00.000+08:00

Chaos seen in SC ruling on premature campaign: "(first of two parts)

Poll lawyers warned of dire complications in the
forthcoming election campaign due to the recent Supreme Court (SC)
ruling..."

Obama Unveils New Missile Defense System

2009-09-17T23:48:00.000+08:00

Obama Unveils New Missile Defense System: "Obama Unveils New Missile Defense System"

Investors Should Think Global, Execs Say

2009-09-16T03:38:00.000+08:00

Investors Should Think Global, Execs Say: "Investors Should Think Global, Execs Say"

The Lehman Guessing Game

2009-09-16T03:36:00.000+08:00

The Lehman Guessing Game: "Lehman's failure prompted fear, speculation and a lot of government spending."