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The Day Social Media Stood Still – Twitter and Facebook Down at the Same Time

This morning many of us social media addicts were greeted with a shock (being sarcastic here), Twitter was down. At first  I didn’t think much of it, the micro-blogging service has had trouble scaling in the past. Although recently it has been holding up quite well. But what set this morning’s outage apart from others

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Photo-sharing Startup Xoopit Bought by Yahoo today

Have you heard the news? Yahoo has officially bought the photo-sharing startup Xoopit. Yahoo! acquires Xoopit. Xoopit is joining Yahoo! to make the world’s best email even better. Yahoo! will be integrating both our photo sharing applications and our content indexing and discovery technology into Yahoo! Mail and other services over the coming months. Xoopit

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Is Google Evil?

In the most recent issue of Wired magazine, there is a rather lengthy article on Google and the US government’s fear of the search giant. The main question that arises is whether or not Google is Evil. Their mantra is “Don’t Be Evil,” but is the 11 year old company sticking to this slogan? I

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