The next time you surf the internet, you may bump into a Nobel Peace Prize candidate. A US security expert has proposed the honor for micro-blogging site Twitter, which helped protesters in Iran beat censorship and tell their tale to the world.

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The next time you surf the internet, you may bump into a Nobel Peace Prize candidate. A US security expert has proposed the honor for micro-blogging site Twitter, which helped protesters in Iran beat censorship and tell their tale to the world.

At the 140 Twitter Conference yesterday, Alex Payne, Twitter’s API lead told Robert Scoble that Twitter might soon add location-based information to every tweet. Currently, users can set a location on their profile, but individual tweets are not geo-coded in any way. If Twitter did indeed add a geo-references to every tweet, then that would open up the door to a wealth of new possibilities for developers. Suddenly, for example, it would be possible to develop an application that could pull in every tweet ever made from a certain restaurant or bar. Continue reading »

Google is rumored to be in talks with microblogging phenomenon Twitter on acquiring the latter. Michael Arrington of TechCrunch reported that news sources mentioned about Google’s interest in acquiring Twitter. Furthermore, it was rumored that Google was in “last-stage talks” to buy Twitter.

Twitter today updated the replies feature and it will be now referred as Mentions as @replies page will now be displayed as @username and will feature not only the tweetsstarting with your @username but also the tweets that mention you anywhere in the body…

Automattic, the company behind the popular blogging platform WordPress , yesterday announced their new site WordPress TV, a place where you can find all things WordPress in visual form. Filled with tutorials for both WordPress.com and WordPress.org, the site has also been designed to give footage from WordCamps of the past a home on the Web.

Finally i managed to transfer one of my blog from Y360 to wordpress… As you all know i transferred all my blogger blogs to my self-hosted word press blog and this was the last blog left but unfortunately it was on yahoo 360 and since their’s no export-import mechanism in y360 i couldn’t do so but because y360 is taking its last breath it was very important for me to transfer this blog and after a lot of hard work i found this great tool called “Y360 to word press” but after using it i realized i was expecting too much,it was not an easy task as it didn’t worked the way it promised firstly i had to remove all videos and polls even after that it was giving error while converting so i had to start from the last entry and by taking 5 or 10 entries at a time i had to convert them in xml format and then upload it to wordpress then the most difficult task delete the entries thaat have been successfully transfered you might be thinking what’s the difficulty in that well friends its y360 and not wordpress– 1 you can not select multiple entries and delete them you have to delete 1 at a time, 2 big time cache problem so when you delete entries and return to last page you might actually end up at an enty that you have allready deleted just refresh the page 2-3 times…

well are you still using blogspot or wordpress or any other blog… so i think its time now to host it on your own website and that too for free…
Become proud owner of your website www.yoursitename.com instead of using yourname.blogspot.com or geocities.com/yourname or yourname.wordpress.com
