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TOPIC: social networks


Access to Twitter has been available until now only in English and Japanese. But this week, the microblogging network launched a Spanish version that was translated from English by volunteer collaborators, EFE and CNET explain. read more »

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Allvoices.com is a mix of a social networking site and news aggregator, Reuters reports. The site sorts news from around the world in a manner similar to Google. It also encourages and enables anyone to be a reporter. read more »

Andrew Sorcini, known on the internet as MrBabyMan, is the most popular contributor to the user-voted Digg social network. According to lainformacion.com, MrBabyMan has submitted more than 12,000 stories, about thirty percent of which have ended up on Digg’s front page. read more »

Bloggers across Mumbai fed live updates of the terrorist attacks, highlighting the social media’s new expanding role in news coverage, Melanie Lee reports for Reuters. read more »