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Back to Beta: Delicious Returns With a New Design and Focus
Delicious, the venerable Web 2.0 social bookmarking site once known as del.icio.us, debuted its new design and feature set today. After its sale to Yahoo, the site [...]
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Google+ Circles Are Now Sharable – Not the Twitter Lists Clone You Expected
Google just announced that users of its new social network Google+ can now share their meticulously curated circles of users with the rest of the world. Owen Prater, a software engineer on the Google+ team made the announcement on the service earlier this afternoon and noted that Google hopes that this new feature will allow users “to share and find lots of great content in Google+, while still giving you important controls over how you read and share.” Sadly, it’s exactly those controls that make this feature somewhat different from Twitter’s list feature – and likely not quite what Google+ users expected it to be.
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Getting Facebook to Give You All Your Data is Easy (in Europe)
As Facebook moves to gather more and more data from its users, some people are getting rather anxious to know what Facebook really knows about them. Turns [...]
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Google Brings the Dead Sea Scrolls Online
Between 1947 and 1956, after a chance discovery by a Bedouin shepherd, archaeologist found hundreds of ancient texts written between the third and first century BC in caves near an old settlement not too far away from the Dead Sea. These so-called “Dead Sea Scrolls” feature, among other texts, some of the oldest surviving copies of numerous biblical texts. Written in Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek, they are preserved in a highly secure building in Jerusalem where only a few of the scrolls are ever exhibited at the same time. Now, however, Google, in cooperation with the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, is putting some of the rolls online.
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Catching Up: Today’s Must-Read Tech Stories (New Facebook Edition)
While there were a few other stories over the last 24 hours that made headlines, nothing dominated the news as much as Facebook announcements at F8. From auto-sharing to the new profile pages, Facebook launched and announced some massive updates. In that spirit, we decided to dedicated today’s edition of Catching Up solely to these. Besides a short summary of all the new features Facebook announced, we focused on analysis stories here that go a bit deeper into the new features and their consequences for users, developers and the businesses that use Facebook.
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