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Neil Gaiman, famed author and creator of The Sandman comic series, and BBC Audiobooks America have gotten together to produce an interesting creative fiction experiment utilizing the microblogging service. Neil tweeted the first line of the interactive story at noon EST Tuesday, with other Twitterusers joining in to continue the tale using the hashtag #bbcawdio. (via Neil Gaiman + Twitter = Interactive Storytelling
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Plug-in hybrid and electric cars, it turns out, not only reduce air pollution, they cut noise pollution as well with their whisper-quiet motors. But that has created a different problem. They aren’t noisy enough. So safety experts, worried that hybrids pose a threat if pedestrians, children and others can’t hear them approaching, want automakers to supply some digitally enhanced vroom. Indeed, just as cellphones have ring tones, “car tones” may not be far behind — an option for owners of electric vehicles to choose the sound their cars emit. (via Hybrid Cars May Include Fake Vroom for Safety - NYTimes.com
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You might have already read about it in the news elsewhere: The Twitter account of security researcher Mikko H. Hyppönen of F-Secure got suspended without warning two days ago. Mikko tried to contact Twitter support and tried everything in his power to understand why his Twitter account was suspended in first place. He received a short message by a Twitter representative after two days that mentioned why his account was suspended and that it was unsuspended. Here is how Mikko describes what happended in his blog: He posted a warning about a new MySpace phishing website two month ago as a tweet using his Twitter account. This message contained an unclickable url of the phishing website to warn users and spread the word. (via Twitter Account Suspended? Be Careful What You Post
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La Forrester Research qualche anno fa (2007) ha messo a punto un sistema di analisi il cui scopo è quello di rendere conto della complessità degli utenti dei social media.



