McDonald’s tried to raise awareness about the freshness of their products with a Twitter campaign using two hashtags: #MeetTheFarmers and #McDstories. Unfortunately for them, the latter backfired and this is what it turned into:
With Wikipedia down as a protest to PIPA / SOPA, Twitter users have begun to post humorous facts under the tag #FactsWithoutWikipedia. Here you can see some of them:
Also, here you can find a collection of tweets by beople freaking out about Wikipedia’s blackout.
An hour ago Yahoo and Twitter announced content-sharing partnership.
What does it mean for users?
As a Yahoo user, you will be able to:
1. Access your friends’ tweets directly on Yahoo Mail and other Yahoo pages.
2. Update your Twitter status directly from Yahoo account.
3. Use Yahoo to search tweets real-time.
This partnership will likely slow down migration of Yahoo email users towards GMail and push Google to team up with Facebook to add value to its Google Buzz service, which seems to be stagnating.
Apple has just announced and shown its new product – a tablet computer called “iPad”. First impression, it looks like a big iPhone / iPod, with the same menu interface, on-screen keyboard and similar applications. Let me put it like this – Apple released a big iPhone and called it iPad. The release date for UK is unknown, however it is likely that iPad will make it to the shelves in two months from now.
So, technically, iPhone has just got bigger? Say, iPhone 3GS XL? Is it really the new product we expected so much? First pictures below – enjoy.
Google is right:
