Submitted by Andrew Peel:
The relationship between the US and China will shape the 21st Century, President Barack Obama has said, as top officials met in Washington for talks. (Read More)
New York Times
Cattles, a lender to clients with spotty credit records, said Monday that it would default on an interest payment due this month. (Read More)
FriendFeed
Twitter seems to be on a role lately. Â It would seem, either by bug, or some new policy just implemented, Twitter has just suspended hundreds to thousands of Twitter accounts with little to no reason. Â You can see all the action, semi-real-time here.I just received a tip from a good friend, a very strong Twitter user and de (Read More)
: Finishing 'Friend is a Verb' PowerPoint talk (Friday 3:30 pm) for 35th Annual NAVS Vegetarian Summerfest at U Pitt in Johnstown PA. I'll mention this in my talk.
Submitted by Emmeffe2
from Google Reader:
International media coverage of the Iranian protest movement in the past weeks has widely celebrated ‘Twitter power' as a tool of organizing and reporting on protests, but the reliance on Twitter has had both positive and negative results in this crisis. We look at some of them here to demystify the actual degree of impact. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
FriendFeed, the multi-network activity aggregator co-founded by GMail creator Paul Buchheit, announced today that it has entered the crowded field of real time search. FriendFeed was already the best way to learn what early adopter social media users were saying about any topic across blogs, Twitter, delicious and other di (Read More)
Submitted by Andrew Peel:
Manchester City Council broke the Data Protection Act when it failed to encrypt laptop computers containing data on nearly two thousand workers. The local authority has promised to ensure all mobile computers are encrypted. (Read More)