Archive for June, 2009
Sunday, June 28th, 2009
NY Times/Wikipedia help save journalist by not revealing that he was captured
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009…orting-on-his-capture/
Earlier this week, New York Times reporter David Rohde escaped from a Taliban prison. He had been a Taliban hostage for the last seven months, but the general public had absolutely no clue. In a joint effort by The New York Times and Wikipedia, the story was kept quiet until his daring escape.
In November 2008, […]
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Facebook Real time Search = $1 Trillion valuation
I exaggerate only a little bit.
http://mashable.com/2009/06/16/facebook-search-2/
Facebook is testing a realtime search engine for users’ news feeds that will challenge Twitter search, the company revealed on its blog today.
Say what you will about Twitter, but the Iranian situation has shown that its real time search feature is unmatched in providing live information just as it’s happening.
Not […]