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29 Apr 2009 20:52

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Tech: Twitter has a hard time keeping its members around

  • 60% of Twitter users love ’em and then leave ’em source
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26 Apr 2009 22:59

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Tech: Facebook will open up its platform to developers. Woo-hoo!

  • Right now, Facebook, everyone’s favorite pre-Twitter social networking site, is a walled garden. You can do some stuff in it, and it seems open, but you have to do everything within its interface. Twitter has gone out of its way to make the environment open for others, part of the reason it’s thriving. (That and Oprah.) source
  • Facebook’s opening of its garden to outside developers (which they’ll announce officially tomorrow) is mostly a good thing for users, but it’ll have to contend with people who have been burned by the service on issues ranging from privacy to design. Will users agree to yet another policy change? source
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24 Apr 2009 12:14

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Tech: Forget #followfriday, Twitter users! There’s hashtags for every day!

  • Mashable has a pretty darn massive list. Between #musicmonday, #nopantstuesday, #winewednesday, #rtthursday, #followfriday, #sexysaturday and #sinnersunday, there’s always great ways to communicate with the Twitter world at large via hashtags. We recommend using all of these hashtags together, for best effect. source
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10 Apr 2009 21:12

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Offbeat, Tech: Being on disability ≠ being on Facebook all day

  • A guy in British Columbia is getting his PC checked for FB usage. The guy, Brendon Bishop, is asking for permanent disability payments, claiming that a 2005 car crash made him too fatigued to work. But a ton of wall posts and pokes and Scrabulous games apparently claim otherwise, as the judge in his trial agreed to a defense motion asking for a scan of his social-networking usage. Someone’s totally getting defriended. source
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06 Apr 2009 11:26

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Tech: Facebook’s big problem: Too many photos, too much content

  • $2 million amount Facebook reportedly spends each week on buying new servers for all of its fresh social networking data to keep all you annoying, fat users happy with them. source
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29 Mar 2009 21:48

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Culture: If you were unaware of Twitter’s celebrity presence, look at this graphic

From Shaq to John McCain to ?uestlove, Twitter is the place to be if you’re a celebrity without an addiction to keep you busy. source
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29 Mar 2009 11:48

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Tech: Mark Zuckerberg still thinks Facebook has a lot to grow

  • Two hundred million in a world of six billion is tiny. It’s a cool milestone. It’s great that we reached that, especially in such a short amount of time. But there is so much more to do.
  • Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg • In an article about the company’s super-sized growth. Despite the growth, the article focuses on whether it’s growing too fast for its own good. Considering how many people get ticked off by a redesign, we argue yes. • source
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14 Mar 2009 13:31

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Tech: We’re one of the cool kids with the Facebook redesign (finally)

The front page redesign is up. In case you’re wondering, I’m probably not going to any of my five invited events. source
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11 Mar 2009 01:37

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Politics, Tech: The Weekly Standard piles on the Facebook hate, big time

  • I will never, ever join Facebook, the omnipresent online social-networking site that like so many things that have menaced our country (the Unabomber, Love Story, David Gergen) came to us from Harvard but has now worked its insidious hooks into every crevice of society.
  • Matt Labash • Senior editor of The Weekly Standard, in an article criticizing the site due to its sheer size, impersonality, mundanity and the way that it takes intrigue away from personal relationships. Yeah, so? It’s because we want our friends to know we’re watching “Gossip Girl.” Labash wrote this just in time for Facebook’s soon-to-launch redesign, by the way. • source
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04 Mar 2009 21:25

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Tech: Just after you got used to the old look, Facebook redesigns again

Ah Facebook, where would we be if you weren’t constantly effin’ with your site? source
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