Egypt again - Google and others invent "Voice2Twitter" for Egypt
Hi! Thought this might interest you: On mashable: http://mashable.com/2011/01/31/google-twitter-egypt-call-service/
From mashable: A group of engineers from Google, Twitter and SayNow (which Google acquired last week) were hard at work building a speak-to-tweet service for protesters in Egypt this weekend.
The service, which is already live, enables users to send tweets using a voice connection. Anyone can tweet by leaving a voicemail on one of three international phone numbers: +16504194196 or +390662207294 or +97316199855. Tweets sent using the service will automatically include the hashtag #egypt. **************** I think the interesting part is, that tech companies have now actively decided to build a workaround for a government issued ban on parts of communication, which actually is a corporate action against a state - or not? Who/what governs such actions by corporations? Well - thought it may enrich your day - have a good one. sam
Corporation vs. state? Mmm... IMO, I think it´s a different thing. George Soros running against the british pound maybe a corp-vs-state situation; think protests in Egypt are quite different. It seems to me like a people trying to live a better life. Best, Alejandro Tortolini Journalist & Teacher
Can anyone offer any insight into why it's not trivial to block outbound calls to these numbers? If it's inconsequential to take the cellular network offline, couldn't they request that the carriers blacklist these numbers? I'm certain there's something more to it, but I don't know anything about phone routing systems. Anyone? Cheers, Mike -- Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Alejandro Tortolini <alemtor@gmail.com>wrote:
Corporation vs. state? Mmm... IMO, I think it´s a different thing. George Soros running against the british pound maybe a corp-vs-state situation; think protests in Egypt are quite different. It seems to me like a people trying to live a better life. Best,
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