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Well, the craze is on. 10 Billion Tweets will probably be hit by time you read this. 600 tweets a second (2.16 Million an hour). So in about 18 hours - Depending on how many people go Tweet crazy - The 10 Billionth Twitter will be posted. The 5 billionth was held by Robin Sloan, who posted "Oh Lord". It
The 33rd America's Cup yacht race gets under way in a week's time from Valencia in Spain, pitting two of the most hi-tech yachts against in each other in a series of races. The defender is Switzerland's Alinghi catamaran and the challenger is the US's BMW Oracle Racing, a stunning trimaran with the world's largest single wing at over 68m
The analysts over at IDC reckon that 2010 is going to be a year of "recovery and transformation". On the recovery side, they're expecting global IT spending to increase by 3.2%, returning to 2008 levels but a large chunk of this spending is going to occur in the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China. But more interestingly, the transformation part is going
I'll be honest it was very difficult to walk away from two separate Twitter advertising deals that would have netted me over $10,000 over the Thanksgiving holiday. I am sure many people will tell me that I am nuts to have walked away from that kind of money. The companies involved were both great companies, and the products I would
O.K. - Check out this Onion article - Man's Facebook Status Given Book Deal Now check out this article on WSJ - S---mydadsays Lands TV Deal Can someone say "Irony?" Little did the Onion know, they were reporting a "Close to news" story. And it happened in the same week. I heard about this Twitter account a few weeks ago.
Great article over on TechCrunch today (by Paul Carr) about how social networking-based reporting may mean well, but actually causes more harm than good. In this case, the incident was the shootings at Fort Hood on Thursday, and the social networking site was Twitter. The military and its official spokespeople were informing the press (and by definition, the public) with
Watching the news has always been a necessary evil. It seems filled with tragic and depressing stories. On occasion I have doubted the wisdom in showing what is shown. In an unofficial and unresearched opinion, it seems to me that the more murder suicide stories they show about a man and his family, the more that occur. Sick people are