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For the inveterate twitter fans, the Rambler Sneakers Tweet have been created, a shoe that incorporates a motion sensor and Bluetooth connection. Synchronized with the mobile phone or laptop, these shoes automatically post our steps on twitter as we walk. His messages on the microblogging social network are very simple.

The social network Facebook is capable of managing thousands of contacts. But for our brain, the limit of friends we can handle is 150, according to Robin Dunbar, professor of evolutionary anthropology at the University of Oxford. His studies indicate that in human groups greater than that amount there is no cohesion and relationships deteriorate.

The crew of the International Space Station already have access to the Internet. Astronaut Timothy Creamer, a NASA flight engineer, sent the first direct message from space to Twitter on Friday. "Hello Twitterverse!" ("Hello Twitter universe!") Were the first words of Creamer from his account @Astro_TJ, which represent a step forward by extending the use of social networks beyond land borders.

According to a study carried out by Imperva, the security of our accounts on the Internet is in serious danger. One in five users still uses the digital equivalent of leaving a key under the doormat: a simple to remember password like "abc123", with consecutive digits like "123456" or even "password".

Gone are the times when world leaders met behind closed doors to decide our future. The UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, which starts on the 7th.

In both Google and Yahoo and the young search engine Bing, the most searched word in 2009 was Michael Jackson. In Google the second place has been for Facebook, followed by Tuenti, Twitter and Sanalika (a Turkish social network).

Google engineers have created Google PoweMeter, a software that allows us to know how much electricity we consume and with what devices, so that we can use that information to reduce consumption and save money.

Email could disappear in just a decade, giving way to Twitter-like messages. It is the conclusion of a study carried out by social anthropologists from the University of Kent, in the United Kingdom.