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Facebook ‘planking’ craze claims life in Australia

16

May

2011

BRISBANE, Australia (AFP) – A new craze sweeping the Internet known as "planking" claimed a life in Australia Sunday and police fear the tragedy may not be the last. Planking involves someone lying flat on their stomach with their arms against their bodies in unusual and sometimes dangerous situations, with photographs of their exploits shared […]

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Google’s Blogger recovering from outage

14

May

2011

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Google's Blogger was recovering on Friday from an outage that knocked the popular service offline. A Google spokesman said at 12:30 pm (1630 GMT) that users had been unable to publish on Blogger for the past 19 hours. "Recovery is underway and we expect things to be back to normal soon," the […]

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Facebook driving more traffic to news sites: study

09

May

2011

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Facebook is driving an increasing amount of traffic to news sites but Google remains the top referring service, according to a study published on Monday. The study by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism looked at the behaviour of news consumers online during the first nine months of 2010 […]

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