Take Walt Disney World - everyone’s favourite theme park, throw in Twitter, add Microsoft Virtual Earth and what do you get? Twisney.
Twisney allows Disney World visitors to update their status and let everyone know just what they’re up. It works via text message, IM, email as well as Twitter. Users can attach photos with their […]
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Folksonomy is a user-generated system that allows users to tag their favorite web resources with their chosen natural-language words or phrases. These tags can be used to classify web resources and to express users’ preferences. Folksonomy may be generated and shared collaboratively by the creators and consumers of web content.
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Revenue for the online gaming market in the Asia/Pacific region is expected to grow rapidly between 2008 and 2013 from US$5.8 billion in 2007 to reach US$21.1 billion in 2013, a CAGR of 20.6% according to this In-Stat report. MMORPGs remain the mainstream of Asia’s online gaming market.
China is the fastest-growing market for online gaming […]
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Social networking sites are seeing older members of society participate as more sites geared toward career age adults and retirees emerge according to this In-Stat survey.
Career networking sites like LinkedIn and Ryze are seeing their sites gaining popularity not only in individual memberships, but with corporations seeking to connect employees. Eons and 50Plus, both […]
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In a move which would have significant implications, Gujarat is planning to be the first state to provide high-speed connectivity through satellite-based data connections to all its 13,693 gram panchayats, by July2008, enabling video, voice and data offerings in the areas of e-governance, distance education, telemedicine, agriculture and interactive advisory and counselling services.
Each panchayat will […]
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