Month: January 1970

‘Oh, so they have internet on computers now!’; ‘Will the highways on the internet become more few?’; ‘Remember when you tried to learn how to swim from the internet?‘: […] Original post by About.com

Twitter is continuing its relentless drive to become more like Faceboook as it finally rolls out the long-planned Activity and @username tabs on the Twitter homepage of most users. This homepage […] Original post by About.com

Even though Twitter continues to revamp its Web interface and add an impressive array of new features, Twitter’s homepage or Web-viewing interface is still not as powerful as many popular, […] Original post by About.com

Twitter is micro-blogging. With a short burst of 140 text characters or less, people share snippets of their lies with their friends and fans. You and I can […] Original post by About.com

While participating in an online discussion forum about Barack Obama, you see this weird expression “TLDR”. This odd phrase stands for too long, didn’t read, and is becoming more common […] Original post by About.com

So, you’re participating in an online discussion forum about immigration law, and you keep seeing this weird expression “QFT“. People post up phrases like “QFT, +1!” and “Aethien QFT!”. […] Original post by About.com

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A bit is a very small amount of electronic data… smaller than the size of a single digit or character that you might type in an email. Megabits-per-second […] Original post by About.com

Klout, a service that attempts to measure people’s influence in social media, triggered a firestorm of criticism after it revamped its formula for scoring social standing last week. Klout scores individuals […] Original post by mtwiscool

About 78 percent of burglars are using social media tools like Twitter and Facebook to identify empty houses, according to a new study conducted in the United Kingdom. The study […] Original post by mtwiscool

Don’t be lured into becoming lazy and gullible. Just because there is Google and Wikipedia, good knowledge has not suddenly become instant.  Even more than ever: we users […] Original post by mtwiscool

Computers are all about making the repetitive go faster. In the case of opening and viewing web pages, shortcut keystrokes are a real boon. Type “.com” in […] Original post by mtwiscool

The modern internet is about handheld connectivity. In 2011, we converse in ‘high-velocity’ style, with shorthand made for thumb-typing. Expressions like ‘IIRC’, ‘mego’, ‘BTAIM’, and ‘fml’ are part […] Original post by jambai