Posts on ‘September 5th, 2008’

Via the Globe and Mail

PETER SVENSSON
Associated Press

NEW YORK — International Internet traffic kept growing in the last year, but at a slower rate than before, and carriers more than kept pace by adding more capacity, a research firm said Wednesday.
The findings by TeleGeography Research are important because some U.S. Internet service providers say they are [...]

Via ARS Technica
By David Chartier | Published: September 05, 2008 - 12:50PM CT
For those still on the fence about 3G in the US or convinced that it’s just a fad, a new report shows that 3G device growth is very healthy and has even exploded in the past year. In fact, the US has just [...]

Via Mediashift - by Mark Van Patten
was as excited as anybody to be able to post video on our website. Our newspaper readers were turning more and more to their computer screen to read our news and it seemed logical that they would appreciate and enjoy seeing video enhancements for the print edition.
My excitement soon [...]

Via the New York Times - By John Eligon

Christopher Long, 29, a bicyclist who was shoved by a police officer in an altercation captured on video, left Manhattan Criminal Court after prosecutors dropped all charges against him. (Photo: John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times)
Prosecutors dropped charges on Friday morning, as expected, against [...]

Via the Globe and Mail - by IVOR TOSSELL

If there was any lingering doubt that the curious blogging phenomenon called Twitter has gone mainstream, it dissipated the moment that Stephen Harper signed up.
For the past couple of years, this most peculiar of communications techniques has been gaining strength in the online world, that vast yet [...]

Via the Globe and Mail - by IVOR TOSSELL

If there was any lingering doubt that the curious blogging phenomenon called Twitter has gone mainstream, it dissipated the moment that Stephen Harper signed up.
For the past couple of years, this most peculiar of communications techniques has been gaining strength in the online world, that vast yet [...]

Via the New York Times - BY CLIVE THOMPSON

On Sept. 5, 2006, Mark Zuckerberg changed the way that Facebook worked, and in the process he inspired a revolt.
Zuckerberg, a doe-eyed 24-year-old C.E.O., founded Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard two years earlier, and the site quickly amassed nine million users. By 2006, students were [...]

Via Mashable - by Doriano “Paisano” Carta

Dipity has released some major new features, taking online timelines to another level with the launch of Dipity 2.0. The site has added a great deal of social networking  integration with services such as Digg, Twitter, Daylife, Flickr and many others. It has also added the ability to [...]

Via Mediashift - by Alfred Hermida
With students flooding back into classrooms in universities across North America, the key to getting through this demanding first week of term is simple — planning, planning and more planning. In practice, this means an August that becomes a hectic month of preparation, getting syllabi in order, ordering textbooks from [...]

Via Mashable - by Doriano “Paisano” Carta

It didn’t take long for Second Life, a leader in 3D Virtual Worlds, to respond to There.com’s announcement of new features.The most compelling new feature There.com revealed was its innovative ThereIM which would allow its members to chat in 3D and 2D worlds at the same time. Not to [...]