TechBlog Follow Friday & Weekly Stumbles For 2012-02-24 

How an African Chief Uses Twitter to Keep the Peace

An African administrative chief uses Twitter to help solve problems and maintain order in his Kenyan village, showing another example of how social media has evolved beyond wired metropolises to reach even the most previously unconnected corners of the globe. Continue reading

TechBlog Follow Friday & Weekly Stumbles For 2012-01-13 

They Did It: Google Personalizes Search & It Is Not Evil

Google has “shipped the Google part” of Google+, and everything went better than expected. Today, Google launches Personal Results, Profiles in Search, and People and Pages, new features of its core search product that mark the real beginning of Google’s social search era. Continue reading

Twitter hits 10 billionth tweet! 

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The 10 billionth tweet was sent on March 4 at 1am GMT, according to the GigaTweet site which counts tweets live. The daily number of tweets grows at a staggering exponential rate. In 2007 there were only about 5,000 tweets … Continue reading