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The Copenhagen opening video

DANISH FILM director Mikkel Blaabjerg Poulsen has created a short film on the impact of climate change on the next generation using powerful computer-generated effects.

Please Help the World, which features children imploring politicians to act now, was shown at the opening of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 in Copenhagen this week.

It’s now available to view on YouTube and is rapidly attracting online attention.

http://bit.ly/4ssb45

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Google boss on Twitter 

ERIC SCHMIDT, Google’s chief executive, has finally signed up for Twitter under the name @ericschmidt. It’s a bit of a turnaround for the computer scientist, who earlier this year famously called Twitter and similar services “sort of poor man’s e-mail”. His tweeting has been light to date but it’s been enough to reignite speculation that the search giant may make a bid for Twitter.

twitter.com/ericschmidt

Boxcar on iPhone

THE IPHONE and its ilk have transformed the use of social networking services such as Facebook and Twitter by allowing people to keep up to date on the move. But there is nothing worse than someone constantly checking their phone during business meetings or social occasions. Enter iPhone app Boxcar. It sends you a notification that appears like a text message when you are contacted on Twitter or Facebook. You can monitor one service for free and additional monitoring can be bought from within the app starting at €0.79 each.

http://boxcar.io

First jobs of 10 rich entrepreneurs

SOME OF the US’s wealthiest businesspeople got their first “working capital” by delivering papers, followed by stints in the military, according to this blog post on financial site Mint.com, which has been attracting a lot of traffic this week.

Find out how Donald Trump, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffett and others got their start. The “didn’t they do well?” award has to go to Ross Perot (above), whose father “put his young son to work at the age of six breaking horses for a dollar or two apiece”.

http://bit.ly/8DWkU0

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