Since it parachuted onto Mars last September, the American space agency NASA has made the most of the success of the Curiosity rover as it explores the inhospitable Martian terrain around its landing site. While it has achieved some notable exploratory firsts, Curiosity is potentially harming the very human trait […]

The Hidden Web, also know as Deep Web, is a part of the World Wide Web that isn’t accessible alongside sites like Google, Yahoo or Facebook. It exists below the surface of the Internet we access daily and the reality is darker, more dangerous and more depraved than you can […]

I remember being back in school where MSN and MySpace were the be all and end all of social networking sites… Instant message, webcam chat and catch up on the latest news all at the same time just at the touch of your fingertips. Then in July 2006 came Twitter, […]

I was asked to bring forward my opinions and thoughts on Twitter, a social networking platform that has had birds tweeting since March 2006. Twitter is better known as a real-time social networking platform from where its little ‘birds’ open the world to celebrities, introduce newly launched companies and present old companies […]

Three years, eight months and twenty days ago is when twitter first entered my life.  That is when I began shouting my useless thoughts into a narcissistic void.  What impelled me to think the internet needed to know my innermost thoughts?  The question should rather be, who impelled me.  I […]

As anybody who has watched The Social Network will know, Facebook originally started as a website for students at the prestigious Harvard University in America. Launched in 2004, it offered some similar services to what it does now: adding friends, creating profiles and sharing status’ are all core functions, but […]

Twitter is unique in so many ways. It allows those who might go unheard to express their talents, thoughts and opinions, not only to their followers, but to the world at large via hashtags, retweeting, twitpiccing and so forth. When I first joined a couple of years back, I was […]

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