Yet on Monday afternoon, a 27-year-old State Department official, Jared Cohen, e-mailed the social-networking site Twitter with an unusual request: delay scheduled maintenance of its global network, which would have cut off service while Iranians were using Twitter to swap information and inform the outside world about the mushrooming protests around Tehran.
My main concern is that Nameo doesn't seem to have any kind of authorization system when it comes time to swap contact information – the app just displays the name of everyone nearby who has hit Connect, and anyone standing in the vicinity is free to download their information.
And it may have been more helpful to have swapped the parade of factual information that many of us should already have known, with more considered exploration of the implications behind those facts.
I found a whole new world of people to teach me how to reach him; people who exchanged their sleep time to swap information until the wee hours of the night.
We asked prostitute help centre The Poppy Project what they thought about it... PunterNet is for punters (customers of prostitution) to swap information about the women they buy, and occasionally, the agencies that pimp the women.
The company, which makes software that lets manufacturers and suppliers swap information on the Internet, joined with Citigroup and three others to create a new company to make it easier for buyers and sellers to pay on line.
Researching a company's prospects is a crucial part of investing, and hedge fund managers, stock analysts and other investors regularly swap information about the companies they own.
One thing led to another, and soon Kim was hacking Nasa (where he failed to find evidence of aliens), running a messageboard for fellow hackers who wanted to swap information about the latest hacking tools.
UK-based Horsesmouth, a social network built around mentoring and volunteering, has come out of beta to give people and organisations a place to swap information around the topics of education, careers, health, families and relationships.
They mainly cater to the middle class and informally swap information about demand and supply.
