News
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Wikipedia Is Down – How am I Supposed to do My Homework?
Among the sites that have decided to take their services down completely in protest of the U.S. government's proposed "anti-piracy" bills SOPA and PIPA, Wikipedia is without [...]
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Minutes Before the First SOPA Blackouts Start, Mozilla Says It Will Black Out the Firefox Start Page Tomorrow
With the start of the SOPA blackout on many major sites just hours away, a number of additional companies have now joined major sites like Reddit, Google [...]
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In Short: Google+ Gets Auto-Complete for Hashtags
Google just added auto-completion for hashtags on its growing social network Google+. Google developer advocate Chris Messina notes that this will "make it even easier to use [...]
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Study: Facebook Isn’t the Echo Chamber You Might Expect
When it comes to social networks, one argument that is often raised against them is that they encapsulate their users in a safe network of friends that [...]
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December Was Not a Good Month for Video on Facebook
Online metrics company comScore just released its monthly rankings of U.S. video properties. As usual, Google's YouTube remains far ahead of the competition with 157 million unique [...]
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Opinion
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In a World of Share-It-and-Forget-It Sharing, Is There Still a Place for Delicious?
The more I think about the Delicious acquisition by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the less sense it makes to me. Delicious was one of [...]
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Facebook Gets a "Send" Button: A More Targeted "Like"
Facebook today announced a number of new features for Facebook Groups. Group admins, for example, can now pre-approve members and Groups now also feature a Q&A and photo-sharing section. More importantly, though, Facebook also introduced a new new button that publishers can put on their site: the Send button. This button is a close relative to the Like button, but with the added twist that it allows users to selectively share a webpage with one of their Facebook Groups or email it to their friends.
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Cord Cutting: It’s Easy if You Try
Cord cutting, that is cancelling your cable or satellite contract in favor of going Internet TV-only, isn’t as hard as it sounds. Chances are, unless you are a real TV addict, you can easily live without cable these days and switch over to an affordable set-top box from Roku or Boxee with a subscription to Hulu Plus and Netflix.
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Why Google’s +1 Can’t Compete With Facebook’s Like
Google just launched it’s +1 button this morning, which allows its users to like sites and ads right on the search results page and which will soon also come to a site near you in the form of a Facebook-like “-1″ button. Quite a few pundits are already proclaiming this as a Facebook competitor, but I have my doubts. For now, the benefits of clicking the +1 button simply aren’t there for users to bother clicking on them
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