What happens when you do a search that doesn’t have branding. Are you swayed by the branding of your favourite search engines? Take the Blind Search Engine Test.
Michael Kordahi, which I feel compelled to disclose is a Microsoft employee, has set up such an experiment, dubbed “BlindSearch” which you can try here.
A lawsuit was the final thing required to push twitter into launching verified accounts now. Twitter has been dealing with a lawsuit from St. Lous Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa. The lawsuit is about an individual impersonating La Russa on Twitter. Twitter still does not have any systematic way to verify if any tweets were real or bogus.
This seems to be the reason that Twitter has announced verified accounts beta program so they do not have to handle any future lawsuits for such reasons.
News have come that Chinese authorieties have further added more sites to there blocked website list on 2nd June 2009. Let me also tell you that there is a big list of social giants already blocked in china’s great firewall 
Twitter is the one happens to be blocked this time. According to early reports on Twitter and on Blogs it appears that chinese authorities badly want to quitet down the entire majore social networking and social media part of the world. Read the full story
