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Facebook is now bigger than Brazil

February 27th, 2009 posted by Tom

It’s true, Fortune has released this article showing Facebook currently boasts over 170 million subscribers. We are used to hearing Facebook spoken about in big numbers (5 million new subscribers per week, valued at $4.1 billion) but this figure stands out from the others in that Facebook has attracted this many users in just 5 [...]

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Google takes you back in time.

October 7th, 2008 posted by Tom

In celebration of their 10th birthday Google has reactivated it’s search page from January 2001 when the engine searched a paltry 1,326,920,000 pages (it’s over 10 billion today). Take a minute to look around and you will see favorites like Digg, Flickr and Twitter are nowhere to be seen. 

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GetUp.org.au brings Politics 2.0 to Australia

October 7th, 2008 posted by Tom

Running in Great Britain since 2006, the concept of eDemocracy lets voters keep a closer eye on their parliamentary representatives by monitoring their online activity. Brought to Australia by GetUp under the banner of Project Democracy users can also access Senate speeches, bios, and media reports about a chosen senator then view and contribute to forums. I [...]

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