The problem has affected the service’s availability for several hours
By Juan Carlos Perez
IDG News Service (Miami Bureau)
MIAMI (06/09/2010) – A networking equipment malfunction has disrupted Twitter, causing the microblogging site to become unavailable to users for hours on Wednesday and forcing company engineers to shut down key features to perform the repairs.
The technical problems have [...]
June 11, 2010 | Posted in
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Saadia Qamar’s 5TH Day at San Francisco, California.
An office located on the 4th Floor of a building in San Francisco has its own significance, where you can simply tweet all day, and ply with only 140 characters which are suppose to be in your reach.
Twitter, a fun tool for many around the world [...]
March 29, 2010 | Posted in
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Google Buzz challenges Facebook, Twitter
The world’s No. 1 search engine on Tuesday launched Google Buzz, which allows users to quickly share messages, web links and photos with friends and colleagues directly within Gmail, the company’s popular email product.
Also, a new arsenal of products make the new social networking features compatible with mobile devices such as [...]
February 12, 2010 | Posted in
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Cyber activism through Twitter has provided a new forum in cyberspace to draw attention to a cause or event. The most recent case in point relating to Pakistan was the Twenty20 World Cup Finals when Pakistan Cricket made it to the trending topics on Twitter, the term used to describe the ten most talked about [...]
July 4, 2009 | Posted in
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Well, everything! And this becomes even more important when it comes to names on the internet. There are some domain names that aren’t part of your everyday lingua franca, but they still always get the repeat traffic because people can remember the name. And since there is such a fine science behind the art of [...]
A feature of life in Pakistan, as in many other Third World countries is that there has been a wide take up of mobile communication technology. Getting a telephone landline requires too money and too many bureaucratic hurdles so mobile phone services have seized the opening with relatively lower entry prices. One byproduct of this [...]
April 13, 2009 | Posted in
April 2009,
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Wateen hosted a Bloggers Meetup managed by Rabia Garib of CIO Pakistan and Badar Khushnood of Google Pakistan. I was available in the country and although I had a crazy schedule, there was no way that I was going to miss it. So off I went to Royal Rodale at 4 pm to meet up [...]
April 13, 2009 | Posted in
April 2009,
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The LongMarch is being covered live by Tweets from across Pakistan. For every Hashmark update towards the #LongMarch, more people are able to stay in tune with what is happening every minute, whether the mainstream media gets to it first or not. Twitter’s search page, which highlights the search trends, follows the topics which are [...]
March 15, 2009 | Posted in
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JaaduVNC, an iPhone application which won at the P@SHA ICT Awards last year in October, made everyone WOW with delight to see Jehanzeb Sabzwari, the developer, doing so well. All this was just happenstance until I noticed this on Mark Jaquith’s Twitter update: “I logged in to my Mac, which is at hotel on EVDO, [...]
March 13, 2009 | Posted in
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This is the definition of twitter when you log onto the Twitter website:
People write short updates, often called “tweets” of 140 characters or fewer. These messages are posted to your profile or your blog, sent to your followers, and are searchable on Twitter search.
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and [...]
Online Tired of bookmarking long, complicated URLs? Well, if you can’t memorize ‘em, shrink ‘em!
December 3, 2008 | Posted in
CMO Pakistan |
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Updated November 25, 2008 @ 17:06
Event photos available @ http://tinyurl.com/lahore-bloggers-meetup-photos
Blogs where you’ll find some virtual estate dedicated to the event:
Techymynd
Lahore MetBlogs
ReallyVirtual
Aqeeliz
SajShirazi
Momekh
iJafri
UzEE
ProPakistani
The highlights for those of you who still want to write up your own blog post!
- ‘Lahore Bloggers Meetup’ event page [ http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=35844398187 ]
- 97 Confirmed, 88 Maybe bloggers & 65+ Wall posts on the [...]
November 23, 2008 | Posted in
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