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14 May 2010 01:30

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Offbeat, Tech: Domain name sales: Dating more popular than birth

  • $1.75
    million     the amount someone paid for Dating.com at a recent auction of domain names in Florida
  • $6,000
    bucks     the amount someone paid for Birth.net; there’s a pregnancy joke in here somewhere source
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05 May 2010 20:13

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Tech, U.S.: The FCC twists, turns its way through the net neutrality wormhole

  • before The FCC planned to use
    its weight to move
    carriers to follow net
    neutrality rules it created.
  • then A federal court said this
    wasn’t legal and that
    Congress should make
    a net neutrality law.
  • now The FCC now plans to …
    regulate the Internet like the phone system. How
    wacky! source
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05 May 2010 14:07

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Tech: Rube Goldberg would be proud of this Google Chrome ad

  • OMG OMG THAT’S FAST! This Google Chrome ad was shot using a 2700 fps camera to show how fast the rendering speed of the pages were. And in every case used here, it was faster than lightning. This advertising campaign is nothing but win. source
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30 Apr 2010 08:43

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Tech: Study: Cable TV starting to lose eyeballs to the Internet

  • 12.5% are gonna scale back cable this year source
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24 Apr 2010 12:12

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Tech: It’s official: College students addicted to the Internet

A University of Maryland study had 200 students drop their internet connections for a day. Many of them showed signs of withdrawal. source
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19 Apr 2010 10:41

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Politics: Does the internet create political polarization? A new study says no

  • perception The internet is making it easier for people to focus only on the extreme opinions they want to hear, either left or right. This creates strong political polarization.
  • reality As a new study notes, “Extreme sites are more common than extreme readers.” And strongly ideological readers read a little bit of everything online. source
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14 Apr 2010 09:43

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Tech, World: Protip to Web-censored countries: Use Opera. No, really

  • 32% of people in Kazakhstan use Opera for browsing source
  • » Why Opera, anyway?: Well, Opera has this Turbo Browsing mode that goes through a proxy. The feature is intended to make Web browsing faster, but has the side effect of getting around the country’s censorship law, which passed last year. Too bad the iPhone app sucks.
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06 Apr 2010 12:20

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Tech, U.S.: Twitter can’t believe Federal Court’s net neutrality decision



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03 Apr 2010 15:34

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Tech: Dear HootSuite: Where did you jerks go? Your app is broken.

  • We’re not geniuses, but it’s unacceptable when a Twitter app that many corporations and users (including us) rely on is down for twelve hours. HootSuite appears to have been down since last night. Our question: Hacking spree? Bots? Long weekend? Fire at headquarters? We deserve an explanation, guys. source
  • Update: App’s up again, but our complaints are still valid. It’s just bad form for a Twitter client to be offline for that many hours.
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31 Mar 2010 11:07

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Tech: Want fast internet access? Move to South Korea, kids

  • $45.50 cost of your average interweb connection in the U.S.
  • $28.50 cost of a much-faster interweb connection in South Korea source
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