Harvard’s Berkman Center’s Internet and Democracy Project presents an interactive Iranian blogoshere map.
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June 8, 2009 • 6:53 am 0
Harvard’s Berkman Center’s Internet and Democracy Project presents an interactive Iranian blogoshere map.
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June 8, 2009 • 6:08 am 0
According to this article on TechCrunch, with original source by Vincenzo Cosenza, Facebook is the social network of choice in Iran.
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May 28, 2009 • 5:44 am 0
This great article describes how online sites like Facebook and Twitter are being used by the primary candidates in Iran’s upcoming presidential elections. It appears that candidates like Mir Houssain Mousavi are following the lead of President Barack Obama who successfully used sites like Facebook to grow his campaign. It appears Mousavi is far more high tech than his rival Ahmadinejad.
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May 28, 2009 • 4:52 am 0
According to ITP, Microsoft has opted to turn off Windows Live Messenger in Iran, Cuba, Syria, North Korea, and other countries subject to US sanctions.
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May 27, 2009 • 6:34 am 0
Juicy facts:
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May 25, 2009 • 6:17 pm 0
According to this article, Iran ranks #32 in the world in terms of number of websites.
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May 11, 2009 • 8:27 pm 0
Ahmadinejad supporters have launched a multimedia campaign called Dar Emtedad Mehr (meaning ‘Following Kindness’)covering social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and other online media.
The site offers news updates of Ahmadinejad’s speeches and visits to different cities on YouTube via Twitter, Facebook, or SMS messages. So far less than 15 people have “followed” the Dar Emtedad Mehr campaign on Twitter.
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April 6, 2009 • 5:26 pm 0
April 1, 2009 • 1:51 am 0
Blogging in Iran is huge. This is probably my most favorite blog:
Mission: To show that regardless of what any president would have you imagine, despite what any media outlet would have you believe, life goes on in Tehran and elsewhere in Iran.
I love the blog format, and the photos are beautiful.
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March 30, 2009 • 9:00 pm 0
Facebook and Twitter are the two hottest sites on the Web right now.
Facebook was recently unblocked in Iran, and I know that online social networks are very popular in Iran – like anywhere else in the world. Prior to Facebook, Yahoo 360 and Orkut were huge in Iran.
I will research in depth how popular Facebook is in Iran, but from some initial investigation, I found some initial data:
There is a Facebook competitor in Iran, called Cloob, which is very similar to Facebook.
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