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Title: Enter the micro-bloggers - ANGELA PACIENZA, Canadian Press Post by: Stephen Taylor on July 15, 2007, 12:40:20 PM Enter the micro-bloggers - ANGELA PACIENZA, Canadian Press
First came e-mail. Then text messaging and instant messaging. Blogging followed. Now there's micro-blogging — sharing life's big and small moments with the world, or just a handful of friends, through frequent, short messages. Among the dozens of micro-blogging sites popping up, San Francisco-based Twitter and Helsinki-based Jaiku lead the pack. The concept is fairly simple — users send messages of about 140-200 characters in length to those who have signed up to receive them. They can be sent by cellphone and routed to people on other networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace. Read More.. (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070704.wgttwitter0704/BNStory/Technology/home) |