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YouTube turns 5 and expands in to South-Africa

May 18, 2010 – 12:12 pm

Google announced through it’s blog that YouTube has launched a  South Africa version. YouTube is teaming up with South African broadcasters to fill the new version with locally produced content, as well as educational content from universities, such as the Rhodes Journalism School.  While YouTube is of course available to anyone on the Internet , [...]

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Social media fundraiser

October 19, 2009 – 1:49 pm

The weekend’s ‘beat cancer’ social media fundraiser has so far resulted in more than 200,000 tweets.  The campaign idea is very straight forward, four cancer charities are aiming for a world record in social media mentions and for every tweet, Facebook status update, or blog post containing the #beatcancer hashtag, eBay, PayPal and MillerCoors donate [...]

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300 Million Strong

September 16, 2009 – 9:46 am

Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has announced on his blog that their networking site now has more than 300 million active monthly users around the globe.  Mark also revealed that the service had started making money ahead of schedule (expected in 2010).   Apparently Facebook hit the 250 million user mark back in July. It’s estimated that [...]

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Get Ready to Register: Usernames Coming to Facebook

June 10, 2009 – 8:08 am

Yesterday Facebook announced on their blog that it’ll soon allow users to register usernames and custom ULRs on it’s site.
On June 13th, people will be able to register Facebook.com/YourName, bringing Facebook in line with two of its biggest competitors, Twitter and MySpace, both of which offer vanity URLs for profiles. Currently, for someone to [...]

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Google Wave: Redefining Email and Web Communication?

June 1, 2009 – 6:57 am

Google has announced the development of a new, super in-browser communication and collaboration tool, Google Wave .  It’ been causing great buzz in social media circles and has already been hailed as the next evolution of email.
Created by two of the guys behind Google Maps,  the concept behind Google Wave is to “unify” communication on [...]

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Obama inviting participation through social media

May 24, 2009 – 1:00 pm

Obama is delivering on his promise of a new era of open government and inclusive policy making, facilitated by social media.  Americans are, throughout May and June, invited to send in, through mail, e-mail and via a website, views on how to make government more transparent and prioritise policy plans.  After this brainstorming phase, key [...]

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Social Media Abuzz with Swine Flu (H1N1)

May 5, 2009 – 11:05 am

Social media has over the past week been domianted by swine flu (H1N1) discussion. This weeks experience is the perfect example of why health/development agencies must take their messgae to where people are, and where the discussion is happening.
WHO raised the pandemic level to an alarming 5 (out of 6), and panicked people across the [...]

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