This is just a bit of curious fun. I can think of a few stories I heard first on Twitter. They are: The assassination of Benazir Bhutto (via @martinstabe) The Chinese earthquake (via @scobleizer) The deaths of Bo Diddley and Ted Rogers The resignation of Roy Keane as manager of Sunderland Bank of England lowering interest rate to 2% Russian
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Nokia have unveiled the N97 and Robert Scoble makes a compelling case for its superiority over the iPhone. Curiously, many of his points mirror ones I had prepared in a blog post comparing the iPhone to the N95, giving me the perfect excuse to finally publish it. The iPhone is overrated. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
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There’s been an earthquake in China, and the Twittersphere is alive with it. I’m going to write a post on this and keep adding to it through the next hour or so. Let me know anything interesting you’ve spotted @paulbradshaw The first interesting point is Tweetburner: its most-clicked links shared on Twitter are almost entirely about the earthquake, and show
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Seesmic and Disqus providing video comments for blogs
It seems Seesmic is already fulfilling its promise as ‘the next Twitter’ insofar as it’s being used for previously unforeseen purposes. Last night I was able to post a video comment on a blog post thanks to a teamup between Seesmic and the comment tracking service Disqus.
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