13Jul 2009 by Asim Zeeshan 3 Comments

Twitter Search gone mad!

News, Pakistan
Yes, I know what I just said that ... its true because my new project HashPakistan is using Twitter Search API to get all posts with hashtag #Pakistan and last night twitter gave it results containing #ashes (and has nothing to do with Pakistan). I noticed it today and removed those updates from the twitter timeline. Hopefully it does not happen again. P.S. There are no official words on the Twitter Blog regarding this
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16Jun 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Twitter Down Time Rescheduled because of Iran Protests

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Twitter Down Time Rescheduled because of Iran Protests, originally uploaded by asim.zeeshan. Twitter says "A critical network upgrade must be performed to ensure continued operation of Twitter. In coordination with Twitter, our network host had planned this upgrade for tonight. However, our network partners at NTT America recognize the role Twitter is currently playing as an important communication tool in Iran. Tonight's planned maintenance has been rescheduled to tomorrow between 2-3p PST (1:30a in Iran). Our partners are taking a huge risk not just for Twitter but also the other services they support worldwide—we commend them for being flexible in what is essentially an inflexible situation. We chose NTT America Enterprise Hosting Services early last year specifically because of their impeccable history of reliability and global perspective. Today's decision and…
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22May 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Link: Did astronaut really Twitter from space?

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Did a NASA astronaut really “tweet” from space? That’s the question bouncing around Twitter about “Astro_Mike,” or Mike Massimino, an astronaut on space shuttle Atlantis, set to land today at Kennedy Space Center. On May 12, Massimino wrote, “From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!” Ever since, NASA, newspapers, TV shows and blogs have been crediting him as the first person to post on the microblogging service, or “tweet,” while in orbit. In reality, Massimino writes his updates in space and then e-mails them to Houston, where a NASA employee posts them to his Twitter profile. That often takes hours because e-mails are transmitted from the shuttle only a few times a day. Read…
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07Apr 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Columnist out of a job after review of pirated ‘Wolverine’

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by Steven Musil Rupert Murdoch apparently wants his employees to know that he does not take piracy lightly--especially when it's one of his movies that is being illegally downloaded. So when Roger Friedman, an entertainment columnist with FoxNews.com, a division of Murdoch's News Corp. media giant, posted a short review of the forthcoming "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," he soon found himself out of work. Friedman, who had had contributed to FoxNews.com for 10 years, wrote Thursday in his Fox 411 column that downloading the unreleased superhero movie from the Internet was "so much easier than going out in the rain" and that it "exceeds expectations at every turn," according to a report in Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily. 20th Century Fox described the Friedman copy of the movie as a "stolen,…
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06Apr 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

ISPs and Net firms start storing user data

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Details of user e-mails, website visits and net phone calls will be stored by internet service providers (ISPs) from Monday under an EU directive. The plans were drawn up in the wake of the London bombings in 2005. ISPs and telecoms firms have resisted the proposals while some countries in the EU are contesting the directive. Jim Killock, executive director of the Open Rights Group, said it was a "crazy directive" with potentially dangerous repercussions for citizens. All ISPs in the European Union will have to store the records for a year. An EU directive which requires telecoms firms to hold on to telephone records for 12 months is already in force. The data stored does not include the content of e-mails and websites, nor a recording of a net…
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06Apr 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

Facebook and Twitter Users Really More Productive

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This story appeared everywhere last week (and it was not an April Fool!) A study carried out at the University of Melbourne discovered that people using the web for personal surfing get more work done than those who do not. The study was carried out by Dr Brent Coker: People who do surf the internet for fun at work - within a reasonable limit of less than 20% of their total time in the office - are more productive by about 9% than those who don’t. Dr Coker states that most projects, such as writing a report, consist of mini-tasks e.g. gathering information, entering data, creating a graph, etc. Workers were shown to take small web-surfing “treats” between these mini-tasks. That enabled the mind to rest itself, leading to a…
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04Apr 2009 by Asim Zeeshan No Comments

German woman divorces husband for cleaning too much

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BERLIN (Reuters) – A German woman has divorced her husband because she was fed up with him cleaning all the time. German media reported the wife got through 15 years of marriage putting up with the man's penchant for doing household chores, tidying up and rearranging the furniture. But she ran out of patience when he knocked down and rebuilt a wall at their home when it got dirty, Christian Kropp, court judge in the central town of Sondershausen, said Thursday. "I'd never had anyone seek a divorce for this," he said. (Reporting by Franziska Scheven; editing by Myra MacDonald) Courtesy: Yahoo News Read the Original Story.
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