NASA astronaut takes Twitter to space en Espanol

WASHINGTON — NASA has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts is breaking a new space Twitter barrier. He'll tweet from space in Spanish and English.

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With Twitter's foray into mainstream media there has been a urge for real-time search and urgency of delivering topical data. Google and Facebook are working out significant changes on their search tools to fillip status updates. In the meantime, tweets seem to be doing a better job in indexing the web. In a bid to offer real time search features Microsoft took the opportunity to add Twitter updates to its much-hyped search engine Bing. Currently the Twitter-related results are limited only to searches on prominent Twitterers themselves, not nearly all tweets.

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Facebook plans to simplify privacy settings

NEW YORK — Facebook is overhauling its privacy controls over the next several weeks in an attempt to simplify its users' ability to control who sees the information they share on the site.

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Can you imagine online dating is responsible for more than 120 thousand marriages each year? Well, who knows who came up with the concept of online dating, but it's here to stay and reign millions of hearts across the world. We  have already delivered the top Facebook dating apps and this time it's my stint with world's largest micoblogging site where I'm sure there are more dreamy eyed singles waiting  to find their other half. Well I've no idea about the number of singles out there in Twitter. But, this is for all you twitterholics looking for a dream date in 140 characters or less. It's just not enough, if Juliet had to convey Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo? Deny thy father, and refuse thy name…, lol.

Well, there are just a few sites that allow you to start dating Twitter followers. After exhaustive googling I got across some cool Twitter online dating site which I gotta share with you. So next time you gotta crush on a twitter user, you   can help yourself on a date.

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Managing new Twitter notifications and direct messages is a hassle that aggravates with Twitter's interface. To match this you would need a tool that could revamp the new follow notifications and adding support for following back and relying to direct messages via email. How about managing your twitter followers by using email as your Twitter control center? Well, there's a  Twitter app that enables you to manage your Twitter contacts via email. Topify, the app in question, is a multi-pronged approach that makes email your new Twitter manager. It not only enhances your new follower emails with additional information, but also enables email direct message replies.
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MUMBAI - PayPal, an eBay company, today announced that it is launching new protection for its eBay sellers.

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Rackspace, one of the MAJOR dedicated server hosting providers of the world, went down severely for more than an hour yesterday, resulting in with many popular websites going down like eventbrite.com, Timberlake's blog, Malkin's blog and etc. As Rackspace was found quoting,

We are having an issue that is affecting part of our DFW data center. No details yet. Will update as we get more information.

But even with that, people are asking why was there a single point failure (SPF) for something as big as Rackspace. Apparently one out of Rackspace's nine global datacenters went down, which still consists of a scary number of websites having suffered the unexpected breakdown from a sevice that promises 100% uptime. The outages also affected the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) cluster hosted by Rackspace, apparently making e-commerce and other functions that depend on SSL inoperable for Rackspace-hosted sites Full article (405 words) »

Facebook picks David Ebersman as new CFO

NEW YORK — David Ebersman, a former executive at biotech firm Genentech, was named Monday as Facebook's chief financial officer.

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LONDON - Mafia mobsters are using social networking site Facebook to attract wannabe gangsters.

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NEW DELHI - "Minister Twitter - that is how the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Minister of Foreign Trade Sheikha Lubna Bint Khalid Al Qasimi greeted Minister of State for External Affairs Shashi Tharoor on a Dubai stopover last week.

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