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Youth Wave — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:01:10 +0000

Meet Bill Gates at Twitter
The world’s richest man, Mr. Bill Gates is twittering now. Recently he has opened a twitter account and becoming the one of the ‘most-followed’ twits soon. Although there are more than 40 face ‘Bill Gates’ on twitter, Bill Gates gets more than 150000 followers in his first 13 hours on the website. This former Microsoft boss writes “hello world” as his first words on the web. Hello world is a standard message used by programmers when learning a new language. It seems that Bill Gates pays homage to the programmers too. However, the interesting news is that Bill Gates is following actress Ashley Tisdale and Queen Rania of Jordan. Bill Gates retired from Microsoft in 2008 to concentrate on his philanthropic works. He reopened his Facebook account recently.

Wanna Commit Social Network suicide?
Are you very crazy about facebooking? Does it kill much of your time? Do you feel sometimes to leave facebook and all friends, just like committing suicide? Well, here is a way for you: web 2.0 Suicide Machine. It’s nothing but a software to make you disappear from Facebook or Twitter immediately. The software is released in December 19, last year and till now, it has helped more than 1000 virtual deaths, serving more than 80,500 friendships on Facebook and removing some 276,000 tweets from Twitter.
To commit suicide you have to log-in your details and after clicking ‘commit’, all the information, Twitter tweets, facebook friends, LinkedIn connections, MySpace contacts – all will be deleted methodically. Only your cyberskeleton will be remained means a profile with no data at all. It seems that thousands of users are waiting for their own cybercoffing because the Suicide Machine co-creator says that the server is busy with handling requests.
However, like real life, resurrection is impossible. So, decision is yours!

Digital Fundraising for Haiti people
The idea of digital fundraising is new but it is powerful, more than imagination. The fact has been revealed only few days through the incident took place in Haiti. More than 2 lacs people have been died in the recently occurred massive earth quake in Haiti.
Digital fundraising is made possible through the social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Red Cross officials were stunned when they came to know the total amount – it is more than $8 million. The amazing fact is the campaign collects more than $3 million within 48 hours. The amount is reposted on the Red Cross account and the fund raising activity is still going on.
The fundraisers also use mobile text for fundraising. Twitter plays great role in this fundraising. Celebrities like actor Ben Stiller, Singer Adam Lambert and Actress Lindsay Lohan used twitter feeds to plead for earthquake relief donations. This reveals the good site of social networking again.

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