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  • In June last year, Conan O' Brien predicted that by the year 3000 YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook will merge into "one super time wasting website called YouTwitFace". Not true :D I believe YouTwitFace will become part of the future education system, and teachers will make use of these social websites to impart their knowledge to students. The speed of how technology grows is unbelievable -- it advances with a geometric progression rather than an arithmetical one. One quintessential example would be the Internet. At the birth of the 21st century, the phrase "social media" is alien to most of us. However ten years down the road, social media sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have become part of our daily lives.

    YouTwitFace Integration in Education

    Posted on April 5, 2010 | No Comments
    In June last year, Conan O' Brien predicted that by the year 3000 YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook will merge into "one super time wasting website called YouTwitFace". Not true :D I believe YouTwitFace will become part of the future education system, and teachers will make use of these social websites to impart their knowledge to students. The speed of how technology grows is unbelievable -- it advances with a geometric progression rather than an arithmetical one. One quintessential example would be the Internet. At the birth of the 21st century, the phrase "social media" is alien to most of us. However ten years down the road, social media sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have become part of our daily lives.

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  • Have you ever wondered the office environment where the young and zealous engineers of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, and LinkedIn work in? Today we present to you guys the awesome compilation of "Inside the Offices of the Top 6 Most Popular Social Websites [PICS]". <em>Photos courtesy of <a href="http://officesnapshots.com">OfficeSnapshots</a> & Flickr.</em>

    Top 6 Most Popular Social Websites And Their Office [PICS]

    Posted on March 24, 2010 | No Comments
    Have you ever wondered the office environment where the young and zealous engineers of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, Flickr, and LinkedIn work in? Today we present to you guys the awesome compilation of "Inside the Offices of the Top 6 Most Popular Social Websites [PICS]". Photos courtesy of OfficeSnapshots & Flickr.

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  • Twitter currently has five native tongues – English, Japanese, Spanish, French, and Italian. The world's most popular micro-blogging even has plans to add German and Chinese into the list soon. Co-founder Jack Dorsey said last week during a New York gathering sponsored by ReadWriteWeb that it is just a matter of a time before Twitter will be serving the Chinese market despite numerous time-consuming obstacles to creating a Chinese Twitter, both political and technological. Meanwhile, avid Chinese and South Korean micro-blogging users have each developed a rather controversy website, which they both claim is a third-party Twitter client and is not affiliated with Twitter.com. The Chinese version one is called <a href="http://fanfou.im/">FanFou.im</a> whereas the South Korean client is known as <a href="http://twtkr.com">TwtKR.com</a>. Unlike other English web-based Twitter clients such as iTweet 2, the design and layout of these so-called Twitter “clones” seem to be exact replicas of the original Twitter.com site.

    Two Twitter “Clones” That Might Infringe Twitter’s Trademark

    Posted on March 22, 2010 | No Comments
    Twitter currently has five native tongues – English, Japanese, Spanish, French, and Italian. The world's most popular micro-blogging even has plans to add German and Chinese into the list soon. Co-founder Jack Dorsey said last week during a New York gathering sponsored by ReadWriteWeb that it is just a matter of a time before Twitter will be serving the Chinese market despite numerous time-consuming obstacles to creating a Chinese Twitter, both political and technological. Meanwhile, avid Chinese and South Korean micro-blogging users have each developed a rather controversy website, which they both claim is a third-party Twitter client and is not affiliated with Twitter.com. The Chinese version one is called FanFou.im whereas the South Korean client is known as TwtKR.com. Unlike other English web-based Twitter clients such as iTweet 2, the design and layout of these so-called Twitter “clones” seem to be exact replicas of the original Twitter.com site.

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  • It's now March 21, 2010 (in most parts of the world). Guess what special occasion today is? Well, it's Twitter's 4th birthday! Back in 2006, Twitter was only a SMS service/micro-blogging platform with less than a thousand users. And today, Twitter has evolved to become the 12th most visited website in the world, according to web information company <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/twitter.com">Alexa</a>. In this post, I've gathered information from various sources around the web such as the official <strong><a href="http://blog.twitter.com" target="_blank">Twitter blog</a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://wikipedia.org" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></strong> to present you guys The History of Twitter (March 21 2006 - Today). Let's activate the way back machine!

    Happy 4th Birthday Twitter! 2006-Today [PICS]

    Posted on March 21, 2010 | No Comments
    It's now March 21, 2010 (in most parts of the world). Guess what special occasion today is? Well, it's Twitter's 4th birthday! Back in 2006, Twitter was only a SMS service/micro-blogging platform with less than a thousand users. And today, Twitter has evolved to become the 12th most visited website in the world, according to web information company Alexa. In this post, I've gathered information from various sources around the web such as the official Twitter blog and Wikipedia to present you guys The History of Twitter (March 21 2006 - Today). Let's activate the way back machine!

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  • Developed by Amit Agarwal from <a href="http://labnol.org">Digital Inspiration</a>, <a href="http://www.sleepingtime.org">SleepTime.org</a> is a simple yet clever tool that tells you when your favorite Twitter celebrities or friends sleep. This may sound rather creepy but it actually works quite accurately to a certain extent. The system analyzes the past tweets of a user and when he or she stays least active on Twitter. After which, the algorithm will then determine his or her sleeping schedule and display it in a sleep chart. However, the results won't be accurate if you only publishes a few tweets a day. Another likely reason for your sleep chart to appear way off the mark is due to the settings of your time zone. You've to specify the correct time zone in your Twitter account settings.

    Clever Tool Tells You The Sleeping Schedule Of Your Twitter Friends

    Posted on March 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Developed by Amit Agarwal from Digital Inspiration, SleepTime.org is a simple yet clever tool that tells you when your favorite Twitter celebrities or friends sleep. This may sound rather creepy but it actually works quite accurately to a certain extent. The system analyzes the past tweets of a user and when he or she stays least active on Twitter. After which, the algorithm will then determine his or her sleeping schedule and display it in a sleep chart. However, the results won't be accurate if you only publishes a few tweets a day. Another likely reason for your sleep chart to appear way off the mark is due to the settings of your time zone. You've to specify the correct time zone in your Twitter account settings.

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  • Founded in 2004, Facebook has evolved from a Harvard University start-up to the world's most popular social networking website. The Palo Alto-based company has also recently hit a significant milestone -- more Americans visited Facebook than Google for the week ending March 13, according to web monitoring site HitWise. It found out that Facebook.com got 7.07 per cent of all Internet traffic for that week, while Google.com got 7.03 per cent. That signifies a market increase of an impressive 185 per cent for Facebook compared to the same week last year, but just a 9 per cent jump for the search juggernaut. With more than 400 million active users worldwide and rising fast, Facebook would be the third most populated country behind leaders China (<a href="http://www.cpirc.org.cn/index.asp">1.33 billion</a>) and India (1.17 billion) if the ubiquitous social networking site were to be a country. And today we are going beyond that by showing you guys some astounding statistics about Facebook, and imagining what would happen if Facebook were to be named as an official country by the United Nations.

    If Facebook Were A Country, It Would Be The 3rd Most Populated

    Posted on March 19, 2010 | No Comments
    Founded in 2004, Facebook has evolved from a Harvard University start-up to the world's most popular social networking website. The Palo Alto-based company has also recently hit a significant milestone -- more Americans visited Facebook than Google for the week ending March 13, according to web monitoring site HitWise. It found out that Facebook.com got 7.07 per cent of all Internet traffic for that week, while Google.com got 7.03 per cent. That signifies a market increase of an impressive 185 per cent for Facebook compared to the same week last year, but just a 9 per cent jump for the search juggernaut. With more than 400 million active users worldwide and rising fast, Facebook would be the third most populated country behind leaders China (1.33 billion) and India (1.17 billion) if the ubiquitous social networking site were to be a country. And today we are going beyond that by showing you guys some astounding statistics about Facebook, and imagining what would happen if Facebook were to be named as an official country by the United Nations.

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  • Sometimes we simply can't squeeze every word we would like to convey in a single tweet, all thanks to Twitter's 140-character limit. But you can't blame the micro-blogging service. Originally, Twitter had no character limit and several issues were aroused. For example, users tend to compose tweets of over 160 characters (the default SMS carrier limit). As a result, they were split into multiple posts which didn’t look too good. To resolve the issue, Biz Stone & Co. then decided on implementing the 140-character limit, whereby 20 characters are reserved for your username. So if you're looking for ways to shorten your tweets, I've compiled a list of "5 Clever Tools To Shorten Your Tweet". They will come in handy when necessary.

    5 Clever Tools To Shorten Your Tweets

    Posted on March 18, 2010 | No Comments
    Sometimes we simply can't squeeze every word we would like to convey in a single tweet, all thanks to Twitter's 140-character limit. But you can't blame the micro-blogging service. Originally, Twitter had no character limit and several issues were aroused. For example, users tend to compose tweets of over 160 characters (the default SMS carrier limit). As a result, they were split into multiple posts which didn’t look too good. To resolve the issue, Biz Stone & Co. then decided on implementing the 140-character limit, whereby 20 characters are reserved for your username. So if you're looking for ways to shorten your tweets, I've compiled a list of "5 Clever Tools To Shorten Your Tweet". They will come in handy when necessary.

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  • I'm a 16-year-old teen and I'm no different from any of my fellow friends who are also hooked up to the computer these days just as teens were hooked on watching television just a decade ago. In today's advanced world, it's a common sight to see teens surfing the web, chatting with their friends on IMs, watching videos on YouTube, and interacting with their peers on Facebook and MySpace. Teens' active presence on the World Wide Web plays a significant role in the popularity of a social website. Even though teens are heavily obsessed with social websites such as Facebook, MySpace and YouTube, but there are still some sites out there which are unpopular amongst teens. Today, I'll share with you guys 5 social platforms whereby only a small percentage of the total teenage population on the World Wide Web uses the following websites.

    5 Social Websites that are Unpopular Amongst Teens

    Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Comments
    I'm a 16-year-old teen and I'm no different from any of my fellow friends who are also hooked up to the computer these days just as teens were hooked on watching television just a decade ago. In today's advanced world, it's a common sight to see teens surfing the web, chatting with their friends on IMs, watching videos on YouTube, and interacting with their peers on Facebook and MySpace. Teens' active presence on the World Wide Web plays a significant role in the popularity of a social website. Even though teens are heavily obsessed with social websites such as Facebook, MySpace and YouTube, but there are still some sites out there which are unpopular amongst teens. Today, I'll share with you guys 5 social platforms whereby only a small percentage of the total teenage population on the World Wide Web uses the following websites.

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