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Manmohan Singh’s Twitter typos and more
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a noted economist and a brilliant scholar. The tweets being sent out in his name by his media team, however, include typos and other slip-ups. Maybe they do a rush job. He has been … Continue reading
Google censoring blogs just as India wanted
Google has begun redirecting Blogger traffic to country-specific URLs, meaning whatever country you’re in, you’ll get that country’s domain for Blogger-hosted blogs. Here are some of the views expressed online. Continue reading
India’s decline on Press Freedom Index
Soft-spoken, incorruptible, an eminent economist, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is a good man. But under his Congress/United Progressive Alliance government, India has sunk to a new low on the Press Freedom Index. India ranks 131st out of 179 countries … Continue reading
Twitter can censor tweets by country
Twitter has announced that it now has the technology to selectively block tweets on a country by country basis. It’s a victory for countries like China and India which block or threaten to block websites carrying “objectionable” content. Twitter seems … Continue reading
94% of internet users in Singapore are on social networks
Merry Christmas everyone! I see “merry Christmas” is trending both in Singapore and worldwide on Twitter. Twitter and Facebook must be deluged with Christmas greetings since almost every internet user in the world today visits social networking sites, according to … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Singapore Tagged facebook, internet, singapore press holdings, social network, social networks, straits times, twitter Comments Off
Indian minister Kapil Sibal twitted on Twitter
Bitter was Twitter and Facebook no friend of Indian communications and IT minister Kapil Sibal yetersday. Not after he urged Google, Yahoo and the social networks to remove posts and comments that might offend religious sentiments and malign political leaders. … Continue reading
Indian minister Kapil Sibal mocked on Twitter, Facebook
India’s communications and IT minister Kapil Sibal is being called an idiot on Twitter and Facebook for wanting Yahoo, Google and the social networks to censor offensive content. “This is unacceptable,” he said, showing officials of internet companies a Facebook … Continue reading
All a-Twitter
“But trailing clouds of glory do we come/ From God, who is our home,” wrote Wordsworth in Immortality Ode. “Our births blazoned forth in newspaper classified ads,” some of us might add. “And social media,” will chime in the digiterati. … Continue reading
Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr & Singapore media
Facebook is the most popular social network in Singapore. But how popular is microblogging and Twitter? And are the Singapore news sites holding their own against the social networks and blogs? Here are the traffic estimates for Singapore mainstream media … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Singapore Tagged asiaone, blogger, business times, channel newsasia, double click, facebook, google trends, hardware zone, mediacorp, singapore press holdings, straits times, the new paper, today, traffic, tumblr, twitter, wordpress Comments Off
