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Best Bloggers of South Africa Announced at SA Blog Awards
After two months of nominations and voting, the South African Blog Awards have come to an end. While there were many winners, the Blog of the Year Award could go to only one – Watkykjy.
Twitter Explains Yesterdays onMouseOver Flaw
Yesterday, many Tweeters were aghast to find themselves redirected to strange websites when rolling over links and sending tweets they never twitted. It was all the act of malicious users who were taking advantage of a hole in Twitter’s website security. Fortunately, it that hole has now been closed.
Survey Shows OAPs Are Embracing Social Media
In a recent survey released by the Pew Research Center, it has been confirmed that older Internet users are discovering – and getting hooked on – social networking.
Is Digg Still Viable?
Recently, Digg underwent an overhaul; people known as ‘Power Diggers’ had come to hold so much power over how stories were ranked that new visitors and casual users found their submissions lost underneath a pile of promoted materials. Digg had become more a ‘members only’ clique than a crowd sourcing tool. So Digg redesigned; however, life after revamp has been all but good.
Facebook Places Goes Live in the UK
It’s being announced all over the Twitterverse even as I type; Facebook Places has gone live in the UK.
Twitter Comes to London in Preparation for UK Advertising Push
In preparation for a push into the UK market, Twitter’s Product Manager Shiva Rajaraman and team are coming to England to participate in the ad:tech advertising conference being held in London next week.
Mozilla Accuses Microsoft of Talking Rubbish
Microsoft is claiming that Internet Explorer 9 is the only web browser to offer ‘full’ hardware acceleration. Mozilla says that is simply rubbish.
Bloglines Online News Aggregator Service to Shut Down
The once highly popular web-based news aggregator Bloglines will end their services as of Friday, October 1 2010. According to the Ask.com team that runs it, the reason for the discontinuation of the service is simple – social media is killing off the need for RSS feeds.
The New York Times and Betaworks Developing a Social News Service
Yesterday, a placeholder went live for a personalised social news service called News.me. The service – developed by Betaworks, and The New York Times – is still under a shroud of secrecy, with neither company willing to describe the service in any detail.
Purecontent delivers its 900,000th article!
Purecontent will today reach a milestone in the company’s history when we deliver our 900,000th article. When Purecontent started as Delegate2 in 2006, David Hobart the founder did not even contemplate that we would ever reach such a point. In fact at the time, writing articles was just a sideline for a business that started [...]
