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Countries with short web suffixes are making money
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John Moe
Feb 7, 2011
Commercials for the web hosting company GoDaddy are weird enough already (they try to be sexy but just end up hostile and confusing) (insert...
Internet back on in Egypt
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John Moe
Feb 2, 2011
Reports are coming in that all major internet service providers are reconnected in Egypt and things are flowing once again. But the Washington Pos...
Google and Twitter team up on Egyptian work around
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John Moe
Feb 1, 2011
If you can get to a phone in Egypt, you can send a tweet. That's thanks to a new system set up rather quickly by Twitter, Google, and SayNow (an...
Anonymous goes political, starts attacking Egyptian government
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John Moe
Jan 27, 2011
The Egyptian unrest has provided a real test case in how social media and web culture can be used in political hotspots. Now, Anonymous, the...
Google launches Holocaust archival project
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John Moe
Jan 26, 2011
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, and to mark the occasion this year, Google has launched a project with Israel's national...
Twitter says it was blocked in Egypt
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John Moe
Jan 26, 2011
There are anti-government protests happening in Egypt, as you know. People protesting the Mubarak regime, which has been in power for 30 years,...
Fake Nigerian princes aren't all bad, maybe they're just bored
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John Moe
Jan 25, 2011
That's what Nigerian internet entrepreneur Oo Nwoye is saying in a recent blog post. She says the people trying to pull those email scams are not...
For public good, not for profit.
Facebook offers critical tool for people in Tunisia, and the Tunisian government steals their passwords
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John Moe
Jan 24, 2011
The Atlantic writes today about what Facebook has meant to protesters and how authorities have been messing with people's info on the site. In all...
Hacker storefront freaks people out
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John Moe
Jan 24, 2011
There are some screen shots going around about a supposed storefront where you can buy hacked access to a whole host of .gov, .mil, and .edu sites....
Google Translate
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John Moe
Jan 13, 2011
The tech world is kind of buzzing right now about a Google app available on Android phones. It's the latest version of Google Translate, a program...