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Next up on the jukebox — Twitter Music. The microblogging service plans to launch its new,standalone music application on Friday,according to sources familiar with the matter. Update 7:59 pm PT:Of note — another source claims the app will indeed launch this weekend at Coachella,though not necessarily on Friday. . . . →Read More:New music app to be launched by Twitter today By Faraz Hasan The advent of social websites such as Facebook and Twitter has forever changed the way we interact with each other. Just about a decade ago,you would not have imagined that you would be able to keep in touch with all your friends from kindergarten through to graduation,your family and your workmates in . . . →Read More:‘Liking’ a Cause makes no difference In the history of mankind,people have chosen various ways to express discontent against the prevailing social,political and economic regimes. Some have been covert in nature while others have been more overt like mass protests and destruction of public property. Nowadays,a new kind of activism is emerging through the internet. Many people,especially . . . →Read More:More than a like  Leave a comment  Media Check  anti-Islam video,Arab Spring,Arab Spring movement,bakery beating incidence,ban websites,Clean up Project for Peace,Contemporary politicians,Contemporary politicians like Imran Khan,destruction of public property,discontent against the prevailing social,facebook,history of mankind,How idiots think Facebook works,Islam,Malik Riaz,Malik Riaz live interview,mass protests,Muslims,online activism,Pakistan,Pakistani activists,political and economic regimes,social injustices,social media,Social networks,Transparency,twitter,Youtube,Zimmedar Shehri By Jane Warren JUST hours after she gave birth to her first child on Friday night,singer Adele became the victim of a slew of spiteful and offensive messages posted by so-called “trolls” on the social networking site Twitter. The most hurtful read:“Aw Adele gave birth to a baby. Is it fat and . . . →Read More:Adele gets hated on right after the birth of her baby By Arif Ansar The media debacle that unfolded during the last couple of weeks is not unique to Pakistan;it has already rocked the West. Rupert Murdoch and his media empire are under the gun in UK for the phone hacking scandal and reporting practices. During the second Iraq war,the credibility of the . . . →Read More:Cyber- ruption By Qaiser Zulfiqar A day after the authorities briefly banned access to microblogging website Twitter due to ‘blasphemous’ material,the city capital police on the orders of a city court on Monday registered a case against social networking giant Facebook. . . . →Read More:FIR filed against Facebook for publishing blasphemous content 2 comments Media Check 298-A of Criminal Procedure Code,Blasphemous content,blasphemous’ material,case against social networking giant Facebook,FIR filed against Facebook for publishing blasphemous content,microblogging website Twitter,Namoos-e-Risalat Lawyers Forum,Police register FIR against Facebook,twitter,websites under sections 295-A Twitter is much more than a social networkand has no time to waste worrying about newcomers like Google+ as it becomes more important as an information service and builds its advertising business,co-founder Jack Dorsey said on Sunday. “We have a lot to concern ourselves with,just building Twitter,”Dorsey said when asked at a . . . →Read More:Twitter,with 100 million plus active users,is more than just social Google Inc.’s new feature called “Search Plus Your World”will now integrate material from its social network,Google Plus in its Google search results. This move has sparked controversy as social network Twitter complained bitterly that this would skew search results to Google’s social network. . . . →Read More:Google’s explanations about its new search features One of the anti-riot measures recently suggested by British PM David Cameron is to prevent rioters from using Twitter and other social networking websites. Such a tactic,which was slammed as a trick resorted to only by authoritarian governments in the past,has had a great impact on world media. The bold measure indicates that . . . →Read More:UK Riots Dampen Freedom Of Speech Following discussion on whether or not social media was “responsible”for the recent riots and looting in the United Kingdom,the British Government is looking at ways to reduce the likelihood of social media being used to organize riots or violent protest again. Officials are considering both banning specific users from sites like Twitter or Facebook if . . . →Read More:UK Consider Blocking Twitter,BlackBerry To Curb Riots | |||
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