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What is Twitter?: Twitter Week Day 1

One of the most difficult things to do in a Twitter guide is to define Twitter. That's because Twitter means different things to different people. At the heart of it – Twitter can be called a ‘micro blogging’ service under the umbrella of social networking tools centered around the basic question - ‘What are you doing?’ We'll begin our Twitter week with an attempt to answer the question 'What is Twitter?' We aim to make the meaning of twitter clear to the beginners and also to...

Test your reaction speed with BBC’s Sleep Dash

BBC’s Science and Nature section has some useful information and quizzes on human body and mind. We just stumbled upon one such test and thought we’ll share this with you. Sleep Dash Sleep Dash is a flash game to test the effect of tiredness on your reactions. Play Sleep Dash and then have some tea or coffee, and then play it again to notice the difference in your reaction times. Try Sleep Dash here. It looks like just another flash game, but its fun and education all the...