Micheal Jackson’s death has come as a shocker to all his fans the world over. He died in New York due to a cardiac arrest on thusday at the age of 50. The news was so shocking for the fans that the internet could also not bear the sudden swarming of fans on various news sites and social networking sites and the traffic got heated up causing a slow down and constant crashing.

It turns out many of the Internet’s top news sites fared better at handling the glut of traffic following the death of singer Michael Jackson than previously thought.

Keynote Systems, a company that tracks site performance, said Friday that it erred in measuring performance for news sites and issued incorrect information Thursday evening.

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Well, we are having lots of social networking sites like Orkut, Facebook and others as well. But another mode of  social networking will hit you this season-A Blue GPS ( a GPS and bluetooth enabled shoe). Talk of being practically socialistic!!

Isaac Daniel, whose Global Positioning System (GPS) sneakers gained worldwide attention in 2007, has announced the company’s newest GPS shoe,  Blue GPS. The new version of the GPS shoe is being billed as a social networking shoe. Called Blue GPS because of their Bluetooth capability, the new shoes enable the wearer to be tracked by friends and family through their cell phones. The wearer simply inputs up to five phone numbers of family/friends into his cell phone (eventually this capability will be able to be expanded to up to 20 people) and pushes a button on the shoe to activate a link with those on his list. The Blue GPS can be enabled with all cellular phones.

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