February 2010
19 posts
BBC - h2g2 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy →
bbc.co.uk
The first online social encyclopaedia (copied by Wikipedia) and the first online journaling system (copied by Blogger).
I found my user from 1999. Shame I lost the password or email address.
“In order to continue to improve our products and deliver more sophisticated features and performance, we are harnessing some of the latest improvements in web browser technology. This includes faster JavaScript processing and new standards like HTML5. As a result, over the course of 2010, we will be phasing out support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 as well as other older browsers that are not supported by their own manufacturers.”
—The Google Apps Team (via hannahkc)
“I share the view that students who let social network style, like SMS (text) abbreviations, such as L8R, and emoticons (like smiley faces) slip into their more formal communications, run the risk of being viewed as poor communicators by very influential people, such as potential employers and graduate school review boards.”
—Social Media Today | Students Failing English Due to Twitter, Facebook
