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Surely by now everyone is in the loop about the city riots that occurred during the last week, and fingers have been pointing the blame at social media and its role in “fuelling” such devastatingly destructive disturbances. As a result, those concerned have pleaded for social networking outlets, including Facebook, Twitter and Blackberry’s instant-messaging software ... Read more

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Igor selects websites, apps and cool little bits of tech he finds out and about when he’s not busy eating sushi and noodles. This month he looks at alternative social network Diaspora.
Diaspora launched in early 2010 and began to gather a fair amount of buzz towards the end of the year. It’s not really ready ... Read more

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A search for #iranelection right now will give you a pretty long list of results, in fact in the time I wrote this about 2000 new tweets have appeared. Twitter seems to be the only way that Iranians can communicate at the moment as the government clamps down on most forms of communication.

Twitter is so ... Read more