VentureBeat
Rumors surfaced this week that Apple is in the process of putting together a $30-a-month iTunes TV offering. This rumored iTunes TV is supposedly something altogether different from the currently available Apple TV.Apple TV is a piece of hardware that makes it easy to watch media (video, audio, pictures) on your regular TV (Read More)
Submitted by Mikepierce:
Big Buzz on how to survive december 21 2012 now that Hollywood is coming out with a Movie. There's talk and information on this topic all over the net. Be informed on how to survive 2012. (Read More)
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We all have friends that post inane or annoying comments, photos, or videos on Facebook. Sure, we can hide their content, but more and more Facebookers are looking for a dislike option to visually show their disapproval. Some Threadsy members can dislike Facebook items from within that dashboard, but we’ve found something (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Facebook is getting old. No, people aren't getting tired of it, it's actually getting old, as in its population is aging. In May of 2008, the median age for Facebook was 26. Today, it's 33, a good seven years older. That's an interesting turn of events for a site once built for the exclusive use of college students. So wher (Read More)
Twitter Blog
As Twitter grows and the number of tweets each day continues to astound us, we’ve noticed an increasing amount of clutter in the public timeline, especially with trending topics. Trends began as a useful way to find out what’s going on but has grown less interesting due to the noisiness of the conversation.So, today we're s (Read More)
VentureBeat
Brizzly, the status update client from the makers of Google Reader, has stepped up to become the second big app to support Twitter lists. (Seesmic was the first earlier this week.)Lists are what they sound like — groups of Twitter accounts that people can recommend to others. They’re usually centered around a theme like ent (Read More)
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Imagine this: once a happy child with a lot of friends, little Jack has started spending many hours per day on social networking sites such as Facebook, which has turned him into a pale asocial freak. Oh, if only he’d never touched that cursed box we call the computer, he’d be a healthy young man now!This is the picture we’ (Read More)
TechCrunch
It wasn’t all that long ago that Digg captured our collective imagination. In fact, even last year Google thought it was important enough to seriously consider buying Digg, only to back out at the last minute. Digg was the future of news. It was crowdsourced, democratic editorial. The masses decided what was news, not some (Read More)
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Everyone is talking about the “real-time web”. That’s usually a pretty strong indication of a buzzword that will soon mean very little. Some would argue that it already doesn’t mean much. And yet, as Paul Graham’s web 2.0 article showed, it is possible to extract value even out of apparently meaningless buzzwords. “Real-tim (Read More)
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Liz Pullen is a sociologist/ethnographer who is working on a qualitative research project on online social communities with a focus on Twitter. She Tweets as @nwjerseyliz and blogs at Spiral Scratch.Over the past few days, the new Twitter Lists feature has opened up to all Twitter users and there has been a flurry of people (Read More)
Submitted by Patrozoo
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Drew Olanoff, who created the site "Blame Drew's Cancer" (where citizens can blame Olanoff's cancer for their problems) skyrocketed to techno-stardom when Drew Carey offered him $100,000 for his @drew Twitter handle. Afterwards, Carey offered to match up to 1 million dollars in donations to the LiveStrong Foundation, Lance (Read More)