Eons, the social network for the over 50 crowd, reported last month a whopping $22 million in second round funding. MyTimeHero joins the space with a slightly different framed entry. Rather than having a sharp demographic cutoff like Eons, MyTimeHero targets parents or grandparents to join — and their children or grandchildren to […]

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Thailand’s military-led government has banned YouTube for refusing to pull video insulting the monarchy. As YouTube becomes a global portal for video, it is drawing not only copyrighted material but political protest and the censorship attempts that come with it. Turkey blocked the portal last month for video insulting Ataturk. The Thais […]

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Twitter mashups are hot and every day brings a new entry to the stage:
The first one is a video posted a few hours ago by SteveLom1 showing tweats locations on a 3D globe:
Video: Twitter 3D - Twitter Mashup in 3D
The other isn’t really a mashup per se, but shows a cool application of the Papervision […]

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Facebook has been a good open source citizen, sharing significant improvements to memcached. Now it releases the homegrown software framework Thrift:

Thrift
Thrift is a software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It combines a powerful software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and seamlessly between C++, Java, Python, PHP, […]

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