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Mr Rudd effectively used internet profiles on MySpace and Facebook and his slick Kevin07 website during last year’s federal election but, since becoming Prime Minister, he hasn’t had much time for the web.  

  But last night Mr Rudd sent an email to all his supporters informing them of his new website, KevinPM.com.au, which includes links to MySpace, Facebook, a new YouTube account, a Flickr photo sharing page and his newly created Twitter page for broadcasting short snappy text messages.  

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Think back for a moment to the early days of the Internet when domain name registrations were free. Imagine how rich you would be if you had thought to reserve “internet.com”, “business.com”, or any two or three letter domain name for that matter. Twitter attempts to limit reservations by requiring a unique email address for each sign-up. That is circumvented by using the Google “plus sign” email trick. Simply append something (your new Twitter ID for instance) to your Google email address like stiennon+itharvest@gmail.com. Gmail treats that as stiennon@gmail.com but Twitter thinks it is unique. It turns out you can just make up any old email address and Twitter will allow you to create a new ID.

pcworld.com

A draft US Army intelligence report has identified the popular micro-blogging service Twitter, Global Positioning System maps and voice-changing software as potential terrorist tools.  

  A chapter on “Potential for Terrorist Use of Twitter” notes that Twitter members sent out messages, known as “Tweets,” reporting the July Los Angeles earthquake faster than news outlets and activists at the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis used it to provide information on police movements.  

  Besides Twitter, the report examined the potential use by militants of Global Positioning Systems and other technologies. 

theage.com.au