Monday Round-up

We hope you had a nice weekend! This is our second edition of our Monday round-up. Let us know if you have any thing cool about the tech world this week!

Google helps Argentinean elections

With 28 million registered voters, general elections in Argentina are a big deal. The country is to elect a new President, Vice President, 24 senators, 130 deputies and 9 provincial governors.

In support of the elections and as part of a campaign to increase engagement, Google Argentina created adedicated website that is updated in real-time alongside acustomised YouTube page.  The websites provide users with information on each candidate as well as interviews and extra content.

So if you’re in Argentina (or are interested in Argentina), be sure you check out Google’s efforts!

London among top cities outside the US tweeting occupy hashtags

A few days ago Twitter released some figures on the ‘occupy’ demonstrations that are happening worldwide.

There have been up to 330,000 hashtags about occupy-related topics tweeted each day, with up to 17,000 different variations each day.  The most popular include #occupywallstreet, #ows, #occupywallst, #occupy, #takewallstreet and #nypd, with New York City being the most popular tweet spot, followed by Los Angeles, Washington DC, San Francisco, Boston and then Chicago.

For cities outside the US, London was the most popular, followed by Cairo, Toronto, Madrid and Sydney.

There’s a new star in town – Larry Page ‘outcircles’ Mark Zuckerberg on Google+

The ever-popular Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was last week ousted by Google CEO Larry Page in terms of G+ connections.

Since Google+ started as an invite-only network, Zuckerberg was instantly the most followed user, even if he never posted on the network.  But when G+ went public on the 20th of September, millions of new users were shown a ‘most followed’ list, which included Page but not Zuckerberg. This helped the Google CEO to claim the top spot of his own company’s new network.

You can find more information about top users on G+here. You can also read about Zuckerbergbeing surprised that people were surprised about him having account.

Microsoft’s official YouTube channel hacked

On Sunday,Microsoft’s official YouTube channel was hacked. All videos and ad campaigns were deleted and replaced with 5 random animations, followed by a message saying “I DID NOTHING WRONG I SIMPLY SIGNED INTO MY ACCOUNT THAT I MADE IN 2006 :/”. It has been suggested that the ‘hacker’ may have been the original owner of the channel, but due to inactivity, his account was given to Microsoft, although he was still able to login through a recovery form.

Microsoft’s channel has over 24,000 subscribers and can be foundhere.