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Date:Saturday Mar 07, 2009

links for 2009-03-07 • UK boffin: Social networking causes cancer, heart attacks, lupus, dementia...• The Register • There's mounting evidence that Facebooking, Twittering, and other "social networking" activities can kill you (or at least impact your health adversely). • ..... View Comments

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Date:Sunday Feb 08, 2009

links for 2009-02-08 • Social Media Statistics: Welcome to Social Media Statistics - A collection of all known Social Media statistics collated together for easy consumption; this site is for everyone who's ever wondered how many Facebook users are in the UK and what the break down of age groups. • ..... View Comments

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Date:Friday Nov 21, 2008

links for 2008-11-21 • The Commoditization of Massive Data Analysis - O'Reilly Radar Excellent piece by Joseph Hellerstein, comparing the traditional, enterprise favoured, database (SQL based, Relational Databases) and the online favoured datastore (MapReduce and Hadoop). • ..... View Comments 1 Trackback

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Date:Sunday Aug 31, 2008

links for 2008-08-31 • welcome to vue cinemas - the ultimate cinema experience Our other local Cinema - 'Star City' in Nechells, although we don't go too often as it went through a spate of being 'stabbing central' at night and hasn't shaken off that image well so far. • ..... View Comments 1 Trackback