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The Register:Social networking site bans oldies over sex offender fears — Over 36? You can't play — A social networking site has deleted most of its users over the age of 36 because it claims older users pose a danger of sex offending. It claims to be forced into the action by the Government … (Read More)
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: Soon, they will ban anyone with XY chromosomes - lest they turn out to be rapists... Stupid.
But then the site isn't that appealing to anyone over the age of 19, so no big loss.
: Not sure if I agree with this practice. I think it should be up to the younger users not to get lured in by the sex offenders that use these sites. Going on a tangent here, but sex offenders should not be allowed anywhere near a computer whatsoever. Just my 2 cents.
Lee's new-look Better Communication Results blog
More insights into those who are wondering WTF ‘Twitter’ is and if it really does have any value:UPDATE The Social Media Marketing group over on Plaxo had a fantastic discussion about Twitter — lots of very positive comments about how Twitter is positively impacting on their businesses Why Twitter Matters (Read More)
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TechCrunch
With Twitter down all the time, the super-early adopters are getting frustrated and looking to FriendFeed as their salvation. Duncan (over at Inquisitr now) argues that it is time for FriendFeed to kill Twitter. And Jason Kaneshiro at Webomatica already has FriendFeed Fever. He thinks it can not only replace Twitter, but (Read More)
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NewsFriendFeeders no longer need to sift through one continuous stream of conversation to find content that should be grouped together. Rooms can be created by any user and set to either public or private. The chosen setting determines the rules for how other users can join the room. Check out social media and Twitter is do (Read More)
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The Last Podcast
Now that I’m caught up on the events of the last week, it becomes pretty clear that FriendFeed is still the topic du jour. Today, TechCrunch announces (based on Compete data), that FriendFeed still has a lot of killing to do:FriendFeed certainly has a lot of potential, but it still has a lot of killing to do. Not much (Read More)
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ReadWriteWeb
We love Twitter just as much as any tech bloggers -- that should be clear to anyone who has read this blog over the past six months. But stories like this one from the AFP are a bit rankling. Writing about how Twitter had news of this week's deadly China earthquake as it happened, the AFP implies that this is a case of "m (Read More)
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Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
The best NEW way to follow our product development updates, feature requests, bug fixes, etc. is by following Jason Goldberg on Twitter. (Read More)
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Submitted by Mitch Baldwin:
What is Twitter!?!?!Twitter is a micro-blogging service for messages of up to 140 characters that can be updated via SMS, Email, Web, Browsers, Desktop clients and whatever else. It can be used for telling the world what you’re doing, sharing insight, communicating with friends and associates and getting answers to your que (Read More)
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