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Online Search Tools for Missing People in Haiti

The Extraordinaries help people complete micro-tasks for organizations, causes or individuals through mobile phones or web browsers.  In response to the Haiti earthquake, they have set up an online service where people can upload, search and identify missing people through pictures and tag people in photos to help in the identification of individuals.  Images of [...]

Twitter gaining ground

There had been a “noticeable increase” in visits to Twitter since the micro-blogging platform started receiving more widespread mainstream media attention, according to Hitwise. “Over the last 12 months traffic to Twitter.com has increased 27-fold,” says Robin Goad, a research director at Hitwise. “If the people accessing their Twitter accounts via mobile phones and third-party [...]