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Twitter may be a toddler in terms of age, but when it comes to purpose the microblogging site has managed to become the most useful utility for keeping up with news and hot topics as they happen.Twitter is coming of age right before our eyes, and more and more people outside the immediate web/tech bubble are starting to res (Read More)
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Google Operating System
Google prepares to launch a service that indexes and ranks content from microblogging services like Twitter. Since it's very easy to post updates and the posts are usually very short, micro-blogging services are great for live blogging, posting real-time information about an event.Twitter's search engine has two important d (Read More)
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TechWag
The newspapers have been generally useless in covering the Iranian elections over the weekend. While the major media outlets have let the story drop on the cutting room floor a robust and notable process of information flow is happening via Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed over the weekend. What the media will not cover, t (Read More)
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Twittown Blog - The Apps and Widgets Community and Forums -
If you've been keeping up with Facebook's blog (or if you've logged in over the last day or two), you may have heard that Facebook is about to implement Usernames. That might sound like a small thing to you, and Facebook's blog suggests that it is. On the contrary, I think it is more likely the beginning of what will become (Read More)
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: Reminds of reading about the squatters rights on land. Hopefully Facebook has planned on the big rush. I've got my new user names ready to go. How important is it...i don't know but i feel like if I don't give it a try I'll be left behind.
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Shi Weihan, the Chinese bookstore owner who has been imprisoned for more than a year, was sentenced ... (Read More)
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O'Reilly Radar
Perhaps the most common reason given for joining the microsharing site Twitter is "participating in the conversation" or some version of that. I myself am guilty of using this explanation. But is Twitter truly a conversational platform? Here I argue that the underlying mechanics of Twitter more closely resemble the know (Read More)
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Leah Betancourt is the digital community manager at the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, Minn. She is @l3ahb3tan on Twitter.Did Biz Stone, Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey or even Mark Zuckerberg ever portend that their means of connecting among social circles would be the news du jour in many newsrooms across the country? Social ne (Read More)
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mashable
It’s time for our monthly number-crunching, and the month of May definitely brought some surprising results. While YouTube is attracting an ever increasing audience, and Facebook is still growing fast, Twitter’s growth has suddenly stopped, at least according to the numbers from Compete. We’ve been covering the steep, steep (Read More)
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ReadWriteWeb
Street View in Google Maps is a somewhat controversial feature, but there is no denying that it is quite an interesting product. Until now, however, navigation along streets was a bit difficult, but Google just introduced a new, smarter way to navigate Street View's panoramas. Instead of having to click from one arrow to th (Read More)
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TechCrunch
For the past several weeks, I’ve been noticing something about my iPhone: Severe slowness. I put it sleep and wake it back up, clear its memory (with an app), restart it and even sometimes manually reboot it — some of these methods alleviate the symptoms, sometimes. Other times, I have to just deal with it being too unbeara (Read More)
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