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Cisco acquires Tribe.net

06/03/2007

A very odd purchase. Cisco should stick to the old hardware, imho.

News.com: Cisco Systems announced on Monday one of its most unusual deals: it has purchased the technology assets of Tribe.net, a mostly forgotten social-networking site.

It is a curious pairing. Cisco, with 55,000 employees, makes networking equipment for telecommunications providers and other big companies. Tribe.net, run by an eight-employee company called Utah Street Networks, has been trampled by newer social sites like MySpace.com and Facebook.

But along with the recent purchase of a social network design firm, Five Across, the deal will give Cisco the technology to help large corporate clients create services resembling MySpace or YouTube to bring their customers together online. And that ambition highlights a significant shift in the way companies and entrepreneurs are thinking about social networks.

I met Twenty!

05/03/2007

Big ups to Twenty Major for winning the Most Humourous Post category in Saturday’s Blog Awards. I was well chuffed to be sponsoring a category again this year, so being the first to present an award to the elusive Twenty was a big bonus. :)

Dr. Ruth Was Israeli Sniper

01/03/2007

No, seriously. Snopes says so.

“When I was in my routine training for the Israeli army as a teenager, they discovered completely by chance that I was a lethal sniper. I could hit the target smack in the center further away than anyone could believe. Not just that, even though I was tiny and not even much of an athlete, I was incredibly accurate throwing hand grenades too. Even today I can load a Sten automatic rifle in a single minute, blindfolded.”

Steve gets his way… kinda…

28/02/2007

Steve from Sex.ie has finally won a battle against the IEDR, CRO and Micky Martin, although he did have to resort to a domain hack to make his point.

The rejection is a big mistake: domain registries shouldn’t be acting as censors anyway, but what they’re doing is here pre-emptive prevention, and that kind of policy should remain in works of fiction.

Did you know?

28/02/2007

While browsing White House replicas on Google Sightseeing, I came across the interesting fact that the original is in fact “largely modeled on the first and second floors of Leinster House” (Wikipedia)!

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