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• Blogger at Center of Twitter Takedown Grabs Fame

  BNET - 2009-08-13

  TBILISI (Reuters) - The Georgian blogger targeted by a cyber attack last week that affected millions of Internet users across the world said Wednesday that Russian hackers were to blame, but that he would not be silenced. The attack last week on the sole blogger took Twitter offline for several...

  Tags: Twitter, Thomson Reuters Corp., Blogger

• Google Reader Updates: Share News on Twitter, Facebook, and More

  BNET - 2009-08-12

  Today confirms that Google's not giving up their quest to become more social media friendly. Earlier today they introduced a series of new iGoogle features that make it more of a social network than a start page, and just now they've released an update to your Google Reader to turn...

  Tags: Twitter, Google Inc., Google Reader

• Twitter outage spotlights 'addiction to social media crack'

  BNET - 2009-08-09

  The attack that knocked Twitter offline and slowed access to Facebook Thursday morning offered a quick lesson in how dependent millions of people have become on social networking sites. A distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack took the microblogging site Twitter offline for about two hours yesterday morning. The same attack also...

  Tags: Attack, Twitter, Google Inc., Facebook, social networking

• Decoding Social Network Metrics

  BNET - 2008-07-23

  Whenever someone releases new web traffic numbers, I get grouchy. Although there are a variety of ways to measure web traffic,  few of them are precise. Furthermore,  a certain portion of those who visit your site don't matter. Why? Because they are "fly-aways" -- gone within...

  Tags: Social Networking, Google Inc., Facebook, Alexa Internet Inc., Network, ComScore Networks Inc., Blogger, Blogging, Internet, David Weir

• Egypt bloggers prepare second strike on regime

  - 2008-04-07

  CAIRO AFP — Galvanised by their call for a general strike on Sunday, Egypt's cyber dissidents have set a new date for anti-regime action on May 4 as an 80th birthday present for President Hosni Mubarak. "We succeeded on April 6, so let's do it again on May 4,"...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, blogger, Blogging, Egypt, Facebook, INTERNET, MARKETING, strike

• Facebookers, bloggers fight Pakistan emergency

  - 2007-11-18

  ISLAMABAD AFP — Defying a growing crackdown on dissent by President Pervez Musharraf, young Pakistanis are using blogs and social networking sites such as Facebook to hit back at a state of emergency. Plans for "flash" protests in Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore and other cities are being posted at the...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, blog, blogger, Blogging, Facebook, INTERNET, Pakistan, protest