Twitters been becoming so popular lately for its ability to stay connected with people, but i think it is good for certain businesses but should be careful on what people are writing , no body wants to hear certain things.

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Hollywood mourns star Paul Newman Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:12:51 GMT

Tributes pour in for actor and philanthropist Paul Newman, star of Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid and The Sting.
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US north-east on hurricane alert Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:51:57 GMT

A rare hurricane watch is issued for the US state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
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Loneliness ‘makes you cold’ Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:49:14 GMT

Psychologists have found that social isolation does make people feel cold.
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Republican quits in Hispanic row Sat, 27 Sep 2008 05:22:41 GMT

A US Republican official resigns over comments he made to the BBC that “Hispanics consider themselves above blacks”.
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In early 2008, Yahoo! announced that its web crawler would begin to process microformats
and other forms of structured metadata, making it available to developers as a
way to present richer search results.a For example, instead of a blue link and a plain
text abstract, a search result for an electronic gizmo could contain a thumbnail of the
device, its price, its availability, reviews, and perhaps a link to buy it immediately. The
greater the percentage of search results that take advantage of metadata (from any search
engine), the greater interest site owners have in structuring their sites accordingly.
Metadata generally means machine-readable “data about data,”which can take many
forms. Perhaps the simplest form falls under the classification of microformats,b which
can be as simple as a single attribute value such as nofollow, described in more detail
in “Step 10: Build Inbound Links with Online Promotion,”earlier in this chapter.
Another popular single-attribute microformat is XFN,c which allows individual links to
be labeled as connections on a social graph, with values such as acquaintance, coworker,
spouse, or even sweetheart. A special value of me indicates that a link points to
another resource from the same author, as in the following example:
<a href=”myothersite.example.com” rel=”me”>Homepage</a>
Some microformats expose more structure, particularly to represent people and events
and to review information, all of which can help make sites more presentable in semantic
search engines. For example, a social network might expose a personal profile using
hCard,d the microformat equivalent of the vCard address book standard.

Microformats are great for this sort of thing, but it is fairly easy for the structured data
needs of a site to run beyond what’s covered by a microformat specification.
RDF, the Resource Description Framework,f is (as the name suggests) a general framework
for metadata not tied to any particular syntax or representation. The main concept
mirrors that of a statement, often called a triple because it encompasses a subject (what
you talk about), a predicate (some property of the subject), and an object (the value of the
property). For example, in plain language one might say that “this book is written by Andy
King,”which demonstrates a subject, predicate, and object, respectively. By breaking
down knowledge into small, statement-size chunks and using URIs to stand for resources
and relationships between them, you can express nearly any fact or opinion imaginable.

Somethings been bothering me lately with this talk about a 700 billion dollar bail out, I mean who exactly coined that phrase? it isn’t really a bail out, as it is more of an investment from the government into America and it has faith in a turn around given time. Their not handing 700 billion dollars over to any one who got us all into this mess, but those home owners who took on that debt should have been more responsible in knowing what they were getting them self into in the first place. I mean come on guys thats like pointing your finger at a casino for taking all your money or the guy on the corner beating you at 3 card Monty we have only ourselves to blame and pointing the finger at anyone else is just ignorant whether your talking about mortgage bail out or insurance firms tanking, i see this as a good thing lets say government takes on this debt takes over houses and then they will take a lesser price on what they are worth bringing things in the real estate field some what back to normal at least with the prices to make it an affordable level.

Since blasting off from Their China launch base on Friday, the astronauts had been largely occupied with preparing the suits and adapting to zero gravity. Meals on the craft have followed a typical Chinese menu, featuring kung pao chicken, shrimp and dried fruit, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Google co-founder Larry Page says the time for delays has passed: he wants the Federal Communications Commission to open up fallow “white space” in the TV broadcast spectrum for unlicensed use, and to do it before November’s presidential election. Page, who spoke at a Capitol Hill event Wednesday, blasted incumbent broadcasters for lobbying “against the public interest” to block access to the unlicensed spectrum. Calling claims of potential interference with existing broadcast stations “garbage” and “despicable,” Page charged that FCC field tests this summer had been “rigged” against spectrum-sensing technology that’s designed to enable exploitation of white space.

The event, sponsored by the Wireless Innovation Alliance, highlighted how fierce the battle between white-space advocates and incumbent broadcasters has become. Wednesday also saw the release of a statement from the National Association of Broadcasters that attacked Google’s pro–white space petition, which Page said has attracted some 16,000 signatories to date. The NAB argued it gives short shrift to interference concerns, but Page dismissed the interference argument as a red herring deployed by incumbents anxious to stifle competition. “It’s just garbage,” said Page, “It’s not true.”

Brandishing one of the freshly-unveiled Android phones for emphasis, Page argued that the benefits of increasingly ubiquitous WiFi technology—he estimated that a billion WiFi-enabled devices would be produced this year— stemmed from the deregulation of “a slice of junky spectrum thought to be good only for garage door openers.” He called the 2.4 GHz band used by WiFi devices, “the worst chunk of spectrum you could possibly use” due to its limited range, tendency to be blocked by walls, and unsuitability for bandwidth-intensive applications like streaming HDTV. Given the success of WiFi, said Page, “why we’re debating whether we need a little more unlicensed spectrum is beyond me.”

With the United States falling to 15th place in broadband penetration among developed nations, Page lamented that all the “static” on interstitial bands represented a “wasted resource.” There are, said Page “a billion devices that aren’t being produced today because the FCC has not acted.”

But his harshest words were reserved for the broadcasters, who he faulted for stalling the exploitation of white spaces, and who he said, “all benefit directly [from the status quo] against the public interest.”

read more here http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080926-page-blasts-whitespace-fud-on-capitol-hill.html

A team of researchers from the University of Georgia has come to a conclusion that will undoubtedly turn the tech world on its side (ha): if you use Facebook to promote your lovely self, it shows through. Narcissists, or those psychologically defined as “excessively egotistical,” will inflate their profiles on the social network with more photos, massive friends lists, and packed activity feeds.

As we used to say on the playground in third grade, duh.

“We found that people who are narcissistic use Facebook in a self-promoting way that can be identified by others,” study leader and Ph.D. student Laura Buffardi said in a Live Science article about the study. Past research back in the dinosaur days of the Web had revealed similar conclusions about narcissists and personal Web pages. Imagine how hard it was to self-promote when you had to know how to use HTML to turn the background of your personal homepage pink!

In order to conduct the study, untrained observers were shown Facebook profiles and asked to identify which ones belonged to people who are classified as narcissists. The narcissists’ profiles were easy to pick out, the researchers noted.

The report is published in October’s issue of the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin academic journal.

“Narcissists might initially be seen as charming, but they end up using people for their own advantage,” study co-author W. Keith Campbell said to Live Science. “They hurt the people around them and they hurt themselves in the long run.”

So it looks like now the prolific Internet chatter about oversharers, bloggy self-promoters, and “wantrepreneurs” now has some academic basis.

By Marin Perez
InformationWeek
September 26, 2008 03:16 PM