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Bitly Announces Launch of New Social Search Platform
Amalgamating the Social Search
The new search technology will allow bitly to classify the daily crawled URLs hence creating an index which is classified on the basis of trending topics, higher click through rates and vast distributions.
bitly shortens 80 million URLs every day, give or take a few,” the company says. “Now, More >
China Says ‘Enough’ to Cyber Culture and Social Media
(Reuters) – China will intensify controls of online social media and instant messaging tools, the ruling Communist Party said in an agenda-setting document that marks the government’s highest-level reaction so far to the explosive growth of microblogs.
Beijing’s vow to strengthen Internet administration and promote content acceptable to the ruling party appeared in More >
Harry Potter Movies: Adaption from the Sensational Potter Saga
Birth of the Potter Film Franchise
The Harry Potter film series is based on the Harry Potter novels by the British author J. K. Rowling. Distributed by Warner Bros., the series consists of eight fantasy films beginning with Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (2001) and culminating with Harry Potter and the More >
Official Trailer of Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn
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Oxford Academic Uncovers “Tantalizing” Clue to Shakespeare’s Ophelia
(Reuters) – An Oxford academic has found a "tantalizing" link between Shakespeare’s tragic heroine Ophelia and a real-life girl who died at the age of two in 1569, when the Bard would have been around five years old.
Admitting his discovery could be pure coincidence, Steven Gunn of the university’s Faculty of History More >
End of dot-com Era Begins: ICANN Approves New Generic Top Level Domain Suffixes (gTLD) Program
SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)-The ICANN Board (LA-based Internet Corporation for Names and Numbers) has voted to approve the new gTLD program to a standing ovation of all in attendance where new rules for generic top-level domains are agreed upon. Voting took place on the first day of the ICANN meeting in Singapore which More >
Apple iOS 5 Pairs Up With Twitter Vs. Facebook & Microsoft Intimacy
It appears to be a tag-team wrestling match- Facebook & Microsoft on one side, and Apple & Twitter on the other side of the ring. The whole tech warfare stems from Apple’s decision to team up with Twitter to power the latter’s platform with its iOS 5 which will allow users instant access to various Apple More >
‘Twilight’ Vs. ‘Harry Potter’: Award Battle Continues for Potter Fans
It doesn’t matter how strongly fans feel for any product or service; in voting encounters, it all boils down to the number of votes received. That’s the hard lesson Harry Potter fans learned this year when the "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" mopped away most of the 2011 MTV Movie Awards with the More >
Upcoming Steve Jobs Biography Already a Bestseller on Amazon and Kindle
Just like a baby’s production, wait another 9 months and voila! the literary world will pop out one of the most anxiously awaited pre-order publications to have been witnessed in a while; the 1st ever personally authorized biography of the legendary Steve Jobs.
The biography will be published by Simon & More >
Jennifer Hudson Writing Book About Her Dramatic Weight Loss
Jennifer Hudson, the Oscar winner, American Idol contestant-turned-superstar has now donned the hat of a writer as she gears up to launch her book, shedding details on how she managed to loose up to 80 lbs (36 kg). signed a deal to pen a memoir about her dramatic, 80-pound weight More >
Dundee University Introduces Graduate Level Degree Program in Comics
We’ve seen comics being transformed into cartoon shows, action figures and movies. Now, for the first time, we shall get to see comics become an actual major which the students of Dundee University’s (Scotland) English department can choose to specialize in.
With a student population of close to 19000, Dundee University becomes More >
V. S. Naipaul Stirs Up Male Chauvinistic Controversy with His Sexist Remarks
Humility and integrity are traits one finds frequently among the greatest names that either ever lived or are still alive in our world today. However, sometimes, fame & fortune – both combined – can lead a person to come out of their humility shell and splatter other individuals with either More >
Harry Potter Digitalized: Will J.K Rowling Sign Off the eBook Deal?
J.K Rowling, the heiress to the Harry Potter legend, now contemplates the release of Harry Potter books in eBook format so the e-readers can easily catch up on the beloved wizard boy through their Kindle or iPad apps.
The question comes, whether Rowling will sign the eBook deal or not? as, previously, she did not More >
Controversial Book Labeling Gandhi “Gay” Continues to Spark Fury with Indian Mobs
Mahatma’s family, scholars and Indian mobs have received the new biography titled Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle With India, with contempt and fury as the book claims that Gandhi was bisexual and left his wife, Kasturba, in 1908 to live with Herman Kallenbach.
Joseph Lelyveld, a Pulitzer Prize More >
Books to Survive the Use and Abuse of Literature
Harvard English professor Marjorie Garber, best known for her works on Shakespeare, states that literature would continue to be an “integral part” of human experience.
Best known for her works Shakespeare and Modern Culture’ , Shakespeare After All’ , Coming of Age in Shakespeare, and Shakespeare’s Ghost Writers, Garber now takes on More >