Chatroulette is The Innertubes Greatest Hope
Broadcatching, Chatroulette, The InnertubesBy Laura Casey
Contra Costa Times
03/12/2010 01:00:00 PM PST
IN LESS THAN an hour I met Tyquan, a 23-year-old military-trained security guard from Brooklyn and 26-year-old Emmy from New Orleans, who showed me her belly dance moves. Mike, a 16-year-old from Texas, wanted to chat with me about college and my job while Lyon, 70, from France just wanted to say “hi.”
Twitter Downtime Rescheduled So Crucial Updates From Iran Can Be Posted
Iran, Mainstream Media, Twitter
Down Time Rescheduled
A critical network upgrade must be performed to ensure continued operation of Twitter. In coordination with Twitter, our network host had planned this upgrade for tonight. However, our network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in Iran. Tonight’s planned maintenance has been rescheduled to tomorrow between 2-3p PST (1:30a in Iran).
Our partners are taking a huge risk not just for Twitter but also the other services they support worldwide—we commend them for being flexible in what is essentially an inflexible situation. We chose NTT America Enterprise Hosting Services early last year specifically because of their impeccable history of reliability and global perspective. Today’s decision and actions continue to prove why NTT America is such a powerful partner for Twitter.
Live Blogging the Madoff Hearing: The Victims Speak
Bernie Madoff, Economy, Fraud, Live Blogging, Twitter, Wall Street ScamLive Blogging the Madoff Hearing: The Victims Speak
The first Madoff victim–a Mr. Nuremberg–has approached the court to speak. He begins by challenging Madoff to look him in the eye. Madoff started to turn towards Nuremberg before Judge Chin ordered Nuremberg to return to the podium.
Nuremberg did as instructed and stated that a conspiracy count should be included in the plea. He said other individuals were undoubtedly involved in pulling together “the reams of data” that Madoff used to
build his fraudulent business.
Nuremberg urged Chin to reject the plea. Another victim has approached the podium and urged more of the same.
A third victim, who the audio dipped out on and we couldn’t get her name, says that Chin should push for a trial for Madoff that will show the true extent of his crimes and others allegedly involved
“We are a country that learns from our mistakes,” she said. “And then we can reexamine and improve the mechanisms that have failed us so completely here…with this horrendous crime. Mr. Madoff has
inflicted so much pain on the young, the old, and the infirm. No man is above the law.”
At this point, Chin says there will be no more statements from victims.
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Comedy, Politics, Social Networking, Twitter, VideoBloggers Rush To Put Words "IPhone" and "Google Chrome" in Same Headline
StoriesWeb 2.0 afficionados and general internet geeks accross the planet staged a history-making rush of blog posts heralding the new Google browser, Chrome and the cavalcade of programs being written to use it on Apple’s I-Phone.
Today on Twitter, one mashup nerd excitedly wondered what custom API’s were in the works and a Spore programmer claimed on Tumblr that they would run a version of the new game through Mountain View’s Google servers utilizing Chrome’s mobile capabilities.
The New York Herald Sun 