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The Twitter Nobel Peace Prize negated

There has been some speculation recently whether Twitter should be considered for the Nobel Peace Prize for its role in the recent events in Iran.

So while we’re speculating, why not consider Twitter for some other Nobel prizes as well? How about the Nobel Prize in Literature for its role (together with text messaging) in helping us evolve the English language?

Or wait…

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The countries buzzing the most about Twitter in 2009

2009 looks set to be a break-through year for Twitter. This article will show that interest for Twitter is skyrocketing outside the US, and also where this is happening.

To be able to examine the worldwide buzz about Twitter (the general interest level per country, if you like) we have looked at Google search data for searches made so far in 2009. This gave us a fresh perspective on the current trends.

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IPv6 playtime: Hiding sentences inside addresses

We thought it was time for some fun of the geekier kind. If you know what IPv6 is, this should be something for you.

You may have seen IPv6 addresses that contain a couple of actual words. Here is a made-up example: babe:f432:42aa:8271:eee6:1076:dead:beef

Now what if we take this one step further, and construct entire sentences inside IPv6 addresses instead of just a few words? We decided to do just that, and here is how we did it.

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