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The Cultures of Social Networks

January 16th, 2008 · No Comments

Online social networks have their own cultures. Erica Naone of MIT Technology Review (TR) writes that social networking sites’ growth outside the U.S. has exploded recently, but different regions have adopted different sites as their favorites. I find it interesting how each site has developed and grown in its own way. The [...]

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Tags: Brazil · Canada · France · Google · Malaysia · Philippines · Singapore · Thailand · U.K. · U.S.

A useful mobile java app: Gmail goes mobile

November 3rd, 2006 · 3 Comments

The new Gmail mobile java application is an impressive little application that you can download from http://gmail.com/app to your mobile phone. It’s long been a shame that more companies didn’t develop java applications for mobile phones, but Google’s entry into the area brings real promise.
The Gmail mobile application supports over a hundred popular phone [...]

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Tags: Google · Mobile