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Money sharing comes to Facebook

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Friends on social networking site Facebook can now send small payments directly to each other via an application called Buxter.
Buxter handles transactions in Euros or US dollars, with plans to launch in Sterling in the next four weeks.

Other currencies are subject to a 5% conversion fee at the point [...]

Tags: clickandbuy, Facebook, money transfer service
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Bubble Motion Launches Twitter-Like Voice Blogging Service For Mobile Phones

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Sequoia-backed voice messaging company Bubble Motion is getting into the microblogging space today, that is the voice-based microblogging space.
The startup is launching Bubbly, a voice-blogging social network built for mobile phones.

With Bubbly, you can record and broadcast messages from any mobile device. When a users records audio messages and updates, [...]

Tags: audio messages, bubble motion, mobile device, mobile phones, voice messaging
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Social networks and the web offer a lifeline in Haiti

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The collapse of traditional channels of communication in Haiti has again highlighted the role of social media and the internet in disasters.
Twitter is being used as a prime channel for communications, while sites such as Ushahidi are providing maps detailing aid and damage.
Both Google and Facebook are producing missing persons lists.
Satellite networks are [...]

Tags: channels of communication, communication channels, humanitarian community, mobile phone service, rescue efforts, social networks, telecommunications engineers, telecoms sans frontiere, world food programme
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Trust in the Twitterverse

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With the world scrambling to cover the recent devastating Haitian earthquake, journalists, neuroscientists, and everyone in between are testing the frontiers of social media.
Today, down in the descriptively named Research Triangle in North Carolina, more than 250 scientists, journalists, bloggers, programmers, and multi-hyphenated combinations thereof are planning the future of science communication on [...]

Tags: brainard, communication medium, communication professionals, communication tools, haitian capital, hatians, international communication, iPhone, magnitude earthquake, neuroscientists, physical infrastructure, port au prince, scientific information, trust in the twitterverse, twitterversse
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Burst of Mobile Giving Adds Millions in Relief Funds

Old-fashioned television telethons can stretch on for hours. But the latest charity appeal is short enough for Twitter: “Text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to @RedCross relief.”
In the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti, many Americans are reaching for their cellphones to make a donation via text message. And plenty of them are then [...]

Tags: american red cross, cellphones, charity appeal, hurricane katrina, indian ocean tsunami, redcross, relief effort, relief groups, Text HAITI, text message, Twitter, unicef
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