News
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Do You Love Startups Enough to Subscribe to a Swag-of the-Month Club?
You can’t really call your startup a startup until you’ve ordered a few t-shirts and stickers with your logo on them. Startup Threads is one of a [...]
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Techmeme Gets a New Look
Tech new aggregator Techmeme just gave it self a major makeover. While the site's utility was always (relatively) undisputed, it never won any design awards. As the site's [...]
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Google Earth 6.2: A Seamless Globe That’s Ready for Sharing on Google+
Google just launched a major update for Google Earth. The program now offers one seamless image of the globe instead of a patchwork of separate images that [...]
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Google+ Now Open to Teens
Google+ is now available for teenagers. Unlike some of its competitors, Google always insisted that the users of its social network were 18 or older, Today, however, [...]
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McDonald’s: A Glutton for Social Media Punishment
McDonald's has been an active but somewhat timid participant on many social media platforms for a long time. For the most part, but lately, the company's efforts, [...]
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Opinion
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Ubuntu Founder: “The Stranglehold of Windows on the Platform Itself Seems to be Coming Unstuck”
If you have watched the Linux community long enough, you know that every year is inevitably proclaimed to be the year where the Linux desktop finally breaks through. Sadly, though, that has never happened. Mark Shittleworth, the founder of Ubuntu developer Canonical, thinks that a major seachange is currently happening in the corporate world that could give Linux a chance. Ironically, what’s giving Linux on the desktop another chance is the fact that the desktop itself is slowly becoming less relevant thanks to virtualization and the move towards productivy computing in the cloud.
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Browser Version Numbers Are Now Irrelevant – And That’s a Good Thing
Mozilla is getting ready to officially launch Firefox 6 tomorrow. That’s less than two months after the release of Firefox 5 and not even half a year since the launch of Firefox 4. Indeed, there is now some talk in the Firefox community to get rid of version numbersin the user interface altogether. That’s not a bad idea. Users really shouldn’t have to worry about which version of a given browser they are running and those version numbers have now become mostly irrelevant anyway.
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Technology, Social Media, and Politics: Voting Systems
Voting systems theory is, essentially, a way to look at and analyze political behavior through the lens of voting. In terms of technology and social media, however, there’s an aspect of this area of political science worth exploring: how the developments over the last ten years have affected the actual process of voting.
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Technology, Social Media, and Politics: Foreign Policy and International Relations in the Digital Age
Just as technology and social media have influenced the way in which politicians communicate with their constituents, so, too, has it affected the way in which foreign policy is conducted and international relations are handled.
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