"Internet subscribers exceed 5 mln in Turkey
Internet subscribers exceed 5 mln in Turkey
The number of Internet subscribers in Turkey has surpassed 5 million, according to Türk Telekom, Turkey’s largest provider of national and long-distance telecommunication services.
A written statement from Türk Telekom yesterday said the increase in the number of broadband subscribers was due to the investments by Türk Telekom in communications infrastructure around the country.Student ‘twitters’ out of Egyptian jail
Description: James Buck, a graduate student from the University of California-Berkeley, was in Mahalla, Egypt, covering an anti-government protest when he and his translator Mohammed Maree were arrested April 10. On his way to the police station, Buck took out his cell phone and sent a message to his friends and contacts using the blogging site Twitter.
Tools Used for the Action:Twitter
Webware Announces 2008 Webware 100 Winners
CNET's Web blog Webware has announced the winners for the 2008 Webware 100 today. As most of would have guessed, nearly all of the winners are big Web companies. Companies that are household names like Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, eBay, Bebo and Google dominate the list. NYC represented with the following winners: Vimeo, Pando and hakia.
Here's the full list of winners and congrats to each and everyone of you!
The Worst PC Disasters and Their Solution
I just came across a very useful article on TechRadar, titled The worst PC disasters (and how to survive them). Quoting the article:
You might have spent big money on a great PC, installed only the finest software and spent years learning how to manage it all properly, but the First Rule of Computing still applies: things will go wrong eventually.
Theory: The Streisand Effect
The Streisand Effect refers to instances when Internet censorship has the opposite effect, actually increasing distribution and awareness of the censored material.
Origin of the Term: In 2003 singer Barbra Streisand sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and Pictopia.com for $50 million dollars to force them to remove a picture of her home (see above) from a series of 12,000 pictures of the California coast taken to study the effects of beach erosion. As a result of this peculiar law suit, the picture of her home was disseminated on the Internet and many more people saw it than would have if she had not tried to censor the image.
Study shows that U.S. and Western Europe have lower participation rates in social media
A new global study of social media use shows that the consumers in the U.S. and Western Europe are more likely to be "passive social-media participants," sharing videos and reading blogs, while those in emerging markets "often create content through blogging, social networks and video and photo sharing sites."The Interpublic Group media agency had found in its first survey, which was conducted in 2006, a little over half of respondents said they read blogs. Their latest survey found that over 70% did.
