'I need to sleep but Osama had to pick this day to die'
A bloke called Sohaib Athar has become a twitter celebrity having unknowingly twittered the raid that looks to have finally taken out Osama bin Laden.
Athar, who tweets under the name @ReallyVirtual, was peering out of his window, laptop...
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Twitter is a social networking phenomenon, a great way to keep up with people, sure, but also with news in general. Here are some great Twitter app picks for Windows 7, Windows Phone 7, and alternate platforms like Mac, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android, and Google Chrome. ...
In this video, Jobi Joy, UX Architect with Link Removed, joins John to discuss some of the lessons his company learned while contributing to the very popular and successful IMDB and Twitter Windows Phone applications. Jobi covers a wide array of topics, including the design and the UX of the...
Manuel Segovia, 75, and Isidro Velazquez, 69, live just 500 metres apart in the Mexican village of Ayapa, but have not spoken in years. It is unknown whether an argument is at the root of their issues, or if they simply don't have anything to say to one another.
Speaking to The Guardian...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – The venomous Egyptian cobra that slithered its way to fame by escaping its enclosure at New York's Bronx Zoo for a week before being recaptured has been given a name -- Mia, as in "missing in action."
The winning name announced on...
In dicey union negotiations, it seems the modern silent protest is an embargo on tweeting.
Representatives for the News Media Guild are urging union employees of the Associated Press not to promote their stories on Facebook or Twitter early next week.
Reporters often volunteer to spread...
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Lots of Twitter users have lots of followers. For instance, according to Twitaholic right now Lady Gaga has over 9.2 million; Justin Bieber has over 8.6 million; and Britney Spears, over 7.3 million -- just slightly ahead of Barack Obama.
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Media outlets and a Twitter feed this week lobbed a controversial term into the public debate about cyber attacks over WikiLeaks: Link Removed the WikiLeaks' European Twitter feed declared, linking to a blog post of the same title.
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The escaped Bronx Zoo cobra that became an internet star after spoof posts from it appeared on Link Removed has been found 'alive and well'.
The deadly 24-inch Egyptian serpent went missing from the world-famous zoo's Reptile House last Saturday, sparking a frantic search and rescue...
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A missing cobra in New York City has been 'tweeting' about its adventures via a spoof microblogging account that's racked up nearly 100,000 followers.
The 20-inch snake escaped from the Reptile House at Bronx Zoo, run by the non-profit Wildlife Conservation Society, at the weekend...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – It may be weeks before the escaped cobra from New York's Bronx Zoo is found, but the highly poisonous snake has seized the pop-culture moment with a fake Twitter account of her sightseeing adventures around Manhattan.
The Twitter account BronxZoosCobra, purportedly posted...
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Lady Gaga is using her stellar star power to raise money for the victims of the devastating tsunami in Japan, RadarOnline.com has learned.
The singer tweeted "I Designed a Japan Prayer Bracelet. Buy It/Donate here and ALL proceeds will go to Tsunami Relief...
SEATTLE -- A tongue-in-cheek way of documenting his ordeal on Interstate 5 got a bigger response than Michael Micheletti ever expected.
"Everybody is going to run into trouble at some point," said Micheletti, a designer from Shoreline. "And I guess my experience was good people were there to...
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1. Check emails.
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7. View online photo album at Flickr.
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It was a weekend of Twitter and Android malware and worm removal, but squirming in between it all was Charlie Sheen, trying his hand at live video streaming with mixed results.
Beyond that weirdness, even more frivolity with animals taking center stage, where those Angry Birds started...
From sci-fi cult film, to Twitter phenomenon to Detroit landmark-in-the-making.
Plans for a statue honoring RoboCop, the half-man, half-machine crime fighter of the 1987 movie, are moving ahead after a group of artists and entrepreneurs in Detroit, Michigan raised more than $50,000 via...
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Channel 9 has arrived in Barcelona and Brandon Watson took some time to chat with us about all of the announcements Windows Phone 7 is making here. One of the biggest pieces of news is the Nokia announcement and he shed some light on what that means to developers. We also talk about:
IE9 on...
China's Baidu is going social
Baidu, China’s “Google” so to speak, has announced the development and expansion for more social networking services to keep its strong momentum and dominance in the Chinese Internet landscape.
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Coding4Fun is where we show off fun and cool open source hardware and software projects. We know there are lots of developers who code for fun, not just for their jobs and with this in mind, we want to show off the cool work developers can do when they combine smarts and passion. Our projects...