Future:Media:Change

Are mobile phones the key to educating rural women? Do you want to read Twitter on a blog? Is Google invading your TV set? Can Twitter predict the future? Do you “Like” Coke on Facebook? Is Glenn Beck an asshole? These answers and more after the jump in the inaugural issue of FMC Wire

Bebo, we hardly knew ye. Well, I hardly did. Bebo had a strong UK and Aussie following at the time of its sale to AOL for $850 million, but AOL wanted to use the social network to crack the US market. They failed to do so even with their strong messaging client aim and AOL execs announced plans to seek a buyer or close the site by the end of May.

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5 Billion pieces of content were shared on Facebook per week during February, according to data released by the company. This is up big from 2 billion per week only five months ago in September 2009. Sharing tool, AddtoAny reports twice as much content shared on Facebook than E-mail by their users.

By Kate Ausburn

On Tuesday January 12th, a magnitude 7.3 earthquake devastated the Caribbean nation of Haiti. The earthquake has destroyed the nations capital of Port-au-Prince including the Parliament building, the United Nations national headquarters, the hospital, the prison and many homes and businesses. Tens of thousands are dead and millions displaced in an event that United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has described as the worst humanitarian crisis in decades.

Photo by IFRC.

The United Nations, who lost 46 staff members in the earthquake and have hundreds more still missing, are …

via guardian.co.uk
The Guardian Tech Weekly podcast team, discusses how the digitalworld has responded to the Haiti Earthquake. Five Minute spot, begins at 15:19 mins in.

Type “Haiti” into Twitter, Facebook or Youtube and you soon encounter a message from @redcross sent at 05:38 GMT on Jan 13.
In less than 48 hours, the American Red Cross had received more than $35m in donations – including $8m directly from texts.
“This breaks all world records for a mobile giving campaign,” says their spokeswoman, Gloria Huang.
“It’s been incredible. People have donated more to Haiti than to Hurricane Katrina or the tsunami in Asia.
“And Twitter has played an extremely significant part.”

via news.bbc.co.uk