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Monday, 31st January 2011

How Egyptians Can Tweet Without the Internet

With Noor, the last ISP in Egypt now apparently shut down, how can Egyptians get their tweets out? There are a couple of ways: audio tweeting and dialup.

Social Curt Hopkins comments

4 More Projects to Create a Government-less Internet

Last week we told you about three projects to create a government-less Internet by taking advantage of wireless mesh networking. Wireless mesh networks are networks that don't require a centralized authority to create networks. These can provide an alternative way to communicate and share information during a crisis such as a natural disaster or…

Klint Finley comments

Qwerly Hopes to Power Rebel Alliance Against Facebook

The Qwerly API lets developers easily link together users' various social network accounts. For example, given Tim O'Reilly's Twitter username, it can reveal his public profiles at other services like Facebook, Flickr and Plancast. Why is this interesting? Bridging the barriers between different social networks weakens the lock-in effect that makes…

Hack Pete Warden comments

IT Poll: How Important Are Open Standards for Social Business?

We told you earlier today about IBM's strategy of targeting developers with its new enterprise 2.0/social business platform. Part of IBM's strategy is to emphasize open standards such as ActivityStreams, OAuth and OpenSocial. "Open standards" is a major part of the strategy of several vendors, such as Jive and Socialtext. We published a paper…

Enterprise Klint Finley comments

Forrester: Banks Must Innovate for Mobile Banking Growth to Continue

Since 2007, mobile banking has more than doubled in use. According to analyst firm Forrester, this trend will continue, with usage again doubling by 2015, but analyst Emmet Higdon says that a few changes and realizations need to be made for mobile banking to really catch on. According to Higdon, mobile banking lacks "any clear differentiated…

Mike Melanson comments

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