I get a lot of stupid comments on my blog that never make it past the strict moderators eye. Some of them are really quite funny, sort of inventive bullshit. Always they are very complimentary too. So I will share them here, as comments as they are intended to be, but I shall write...
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An Open Letter from Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook is undergoing some changes. It has now got a staggering 350 million members (how many people?!). Facebook has more members then the entire popular of the USA and UK combined!
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WordPress Introduces BuddyPress Social Networking CMS
WordPress, the most popular open source blogging platform, has just introduced its new piece of software, BuddyPress. WordPress describes BuddyPress as a sister to WordPress, although it actually requires the WPMU (WordPress Multi-user) version of Wordpres to run. The idea is that website owners can easily build their own social networking sites. Rather than...
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Grand National Tips: State of Play and Snowy Morning
My dad runs a horse racing blog which I bought him runnersandriders.co.uk a few years ago after he retired. He always said that he had no idea what to do once he retired. As I knew that he loved horse racing I did some domain name research and found that runnersandriders.co.uk was available, so...
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Scrabulous is no longer on Facebook
Several months ago we reported how two individuals had built a Scrabble application for Facebook, and then were under pressure from the board game manufacturers to remove it. It appeared that they won their case, and that Scrabulous would stay. But unannounced a couple of days ago, Scrabulous vanished from Facebook. There are a...
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Scrabble Fans on Facebook Fight for Their Right to Play!
Facebook, the world’s fastest growing web community, is under pressure from Mattel and Hasbro to close the Scrabulous game down. Scrabulous is a game “application” on Facebook, which allows friends to play scrabble with each other online, within the Facebook social pages. Facebook encourages its users to write interesting applications. Scrabulous currently has 603,014...
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Pligg Open Source CMS is for sale
The much loved Digg-style CMS, Pligg, has announced that it is for sale. Many website owners have installed the Pligg CMS to build web communities, to share stories and videos. As the Pligg code is currently open source, meaning that everyone is free to download it, and tinker with it, to make their own...
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Facebook goes public
The Facebook Community are divided over the recent announcement by Facebook that user profiles will soon be indexed on search engines. Like Orkut, to search for individuals in Facebook you need to have an account; but soon you will be able search Google et al for people that you know, and if they have...
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MySpace attracting an older Internet crowd – Internet – www.itnews.com.au
By Antone Gonsalves, TechWeb, itnews.com.au “More than half of the visitors to MySpace are reportedly 35 years old or older, a surprising statistic given the media attention the site has received as an Internet hangout for teens and young adults. A recent analysis of the users of leading social networking sites found significant shifts...
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