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Re: Terrorist attacks in India underline the personal criticality of mobile

Anthony — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:26:13 -0000

On a sidenote, I found out about the attacks from MIR when checking my RSS feeds with Opera Mini.

Re: Terrorist attacks in India underline the personal criticality of mobile

DominicTravers — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:50:29 -0000

Have see the following in my own feed this morning...

vinnyflood Indian government asks for live tweets from Mumbai to cease: "PLEASE STOP TWEETING about #Mumbai police and military operations,"

vinnyflood Would be useful if people could retweet my last message, particularly if you have an Indian followers or friends/family in Mumbai.

This is a really valid point on this story. There is huge potential for the compromise of the police and military operations ongoing in Mubai, if information on their movements is instantly made public. With this following stories a couple of weeks ago that western security services have concerns that terrorists could use twitter, I dread the news that Mumbai police are lifting mobiles from dead and captured terrorists that all have twitter accounts.

There is a huge issue here, I know I take the free use of email and messaging services for granted. It takes years for security services to catch up with the technology that most of us are using. I am genuinely concerned that mobile services could be subject to draconian regulation at some point soon. Let's hope the actions of homicidal lunatics doesn't cast a dark shadow over all the good that mobile technology delivers around the world.

Re: Terrorist attacks in India underline the personal criticality of mobile

Deirdre Molloy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:05:04 -0000

Regarding user-created content being used by large media / news outlets, this picture (and posibly more from the particular Flickr set - I haven't checked) was used on Yahoo News shortly after it was published and is now featured in a related Flickr widget on the page http://flickr.com/photos/vinu/3061365143/in/set...

But then Y! do own Flickr... interesting that they sourced it so fast though. I wonder will we get these Flickr widgets across all Yahoo News soon..?

Another Twitter topic/keyword aggregator that was pumping out about 10-20 updates a second was Roomatic - which was which was set-uo by Russelll beattie (@RussB) as far as I know - see: http://roomatic.com/%23Mumbai

Re: Terrorist attacks in India underline the personal criticality of mobile

tweetip — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:58:46 -0000

#Mumbai ~ 1st Tweets Timeline & Chart ... http://tweetip.us/lkphd