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Women's World Cup Finals Sets New Tweets Per Second Record - Posted July 18, 2011
A new record was set at Twitter headquarters this weekend: more people tweeted per second about the women's soccer World Cup finals over the weekend than during any other single event, ever.
The official Twitter account ... [AllTwitter]
Severus Snape Crowned Greatest Harry Potter Character of all Time - Posted July 12, 2011
Professor Severus Snape has been crowned the winner of the Harry Potter World Cup. Over at MTV News, 64 characters were pitted against one another to determine who is the greatest Harry Potter character of all time.
... [GalleyCat]
Semantic Technology: It's All About The Business - Posted June 10, 2011
The opening keynote sessions at SemTech this week made one thing abundantly clear: Semantic technology is for business, and it's time to start putting it in practice there.
"Semantics is a game changer in the B-to-C model," said Bill Guinn, CTO Product Enablers, Amdocs Product Business Unit... [semanticweb.com]
CNN's Twitter World Cup Coverage Wins Prestigious UK Journalism Award - Posted February 24, 2011
CNN has just won a prestigious UK journalism award for its innovative use of Twitter to cover the 2010 World Cup.
The Royal Television Society, established as the Television Society in 1927 - nine years bef... [AllTwitter]
Royal Television Society Recognizes CNN's South Africa 2010: Twitter Buzz - Posted February 24, 2011
CNN's South Africa 2010: Twitter Buzz received an award in the category of Innovative News at the United Kingdom's Royal Television Society... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]
Twitter Banned During Cricket World Cup - Posted February 18, 2011
There will be no tweeting during the cricket World Cup this year, as officials ban the service in an attempt to minimize corruption.
Reu... [AllTwitter]
How Qatar Won the World Cup - Posted December 23, 2010
Qatar won the right to host the 2022 World Cup. America (and most of the rest of the world) was angry and confused. How could a nation the size of Connecticut beat the United States, Australia, Japan, and Korea Republic? They must have cheated.
Then again, according to a ... [SportsNewser]
Brown Lloyd James Partner Discusses The Bid that Brought the World Cup to Qatar - Posted December 6, 2010
Last Thursday, FIFA awarded the 2022 World Cup soccer event to Qatar, the ... [PRNewser]
Qatar 2022 World Cup Bid Gets Boost from Facebook - Posted November 29, 2010
Qatar 2022, which is attempting to bring the FIFA World Cup to the Middle East for the first time ever, is getting a big kick from ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]
Almost 400,000 People Watched the World Cup at Work Every Day - Posted September 28, 2010
The results are in, and the World Cup is a hit.
According to ESPN, the tournament averaged 7.2 million viewers per day across ESPN's host of platforms (television,... [SportsNewser]
Morgan Freeman, Spike Lee, Bill Clinton, Mia Hamm Star in Video for Go USA Bid - Posted September 23, 2010
Go USA Bid brought out the big guns in its efforts to rally support for the United States as the host country for FIFA World Cup 2018 or 2022, releasing a video narrated by Morgan Freeman and featuring ... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]










