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Moldova riots
Our Moldovan brothers are struggling to overturn corrupt election results of the communist party, while CNN and other media talk about the influence of social networking in this matter. Their authorities already started a cyber counter-attack, blocking access to these web networking services.
Seems to me they are missing the whole point. It’s not about the social networks, it’s about people, and what people want – remember December 22nd, 1989, when Romania was facing a major turning point in it’s history. Would things be any different today, if we had Twitter? Doubt it.
My 2 euro cents.
P.S. Seems Romania gets the blame for what is happening. That’s a new one! 
GFail
GMail is down. My domain has GMail on it’s mail server as well, so I am at this point left with Yahoo and MSN. Good thing Google Finance is still working, just look at that Google stock going down.
More news here.
May God help us all!
UPDATE: Google has posted the following on the gmail support site:
“We’re aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a number of users. This problem occurred at approximately 1.30AM Pacific Time. We’re working hard to resolve this problem and will post updates as we have them. We apologize for any inconvenience that this has caused”.
UPDATE: GMail is back on track. I guess we can still expect hickups since it’ still in BETA stage. Good job Google!
Free Twitter Translator
Here is a nifty little Twitter implementation from the nice people at OneHourTranslation. I hope all you Twitter geeks are happy now, that your voice can be heard in so many languages.
Here are the instructions:
- Send @twitrans tweets like: en2sp I can now tweet you in Spanish! When are you coming for a visit in New York?
- Wait a few minutes. While you wait we route your text to our translators at OneHourTranslation.com
- Get the translation back in your Twitter home page: twitrans @twitter ¡Ya puedo decirte pío pío en español!¿Cuándo vendrás de visita a Nueva York?
- To get more help, please send @twitrans help or @twitrans codes.
- Available language codes: Arabic-ar, Chinese-zh, Dutch-nl, English-en, French-fr, German-de, Greek-el, Hebrew-he, Hindi-hi, Italian-it, Japanese-jp, Portuguese-pt, Russian-ru, Spanish-es
Have a go at it here @twitrans
P.S. You need a Twitter account for this.
Microsoft PhotoZoom
PhotoZoom makes it easy for anyone to create zooming albums from their uploaded photos. It is an experimental site, developed at Microsoft, that uses the Deep Zoom technology in Silverlight 2.
Not bad Microsoft, not bad.
A word a day..
lolosaurus
Greater than LOL, ROFL, LMAO, LMFAO and ROFFLES, Lolosaurus is perhaps the greatest e-way of saying “I find that funny and would wish to say so in a grandiose fashion”. However if it were to ever be translated into a laugh it would kill the laugher.
Billy:*rolls eyes*
Timmy: That’s what your mom did last night!
Billy:STFU!
Timmy: Lolosaurus!
(via urbandictionary.com)