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06 Jun 2009 18:26

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Tech: Most Twitter users are either complete losers or spambots

  • 80% of Twitter users have less than ten followers source

24 May 2009 19:33

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Tech: Lots of people are trying Wolfram Alpha right now

  • 100 million answers served in just 11 days. Whoa. source

13 May 2009 08:53

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U.S.: Now that the U.S. has their stimulus, they’re not in a rush to use it

  • $787 billion size of the stimulus package passed by Congress and signed by Obama source

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

20 Mar 2009 21:59

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World: U.K. targets the laaaaaadies with controversial new condom ads

  • £5.2 million was spent to tell women they’re hotter with condoms source

03 Mar 2009 09:43

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Offbeat: Ah, porn. The one thing everybody’s wallets can agree on

  • When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different.
  • Benjamin Edelman • Harvard Business School professor, on a new study regarding pornography usage by region, a study based on anonymous credit card data nationwide. Red states like it a little more than blue, but everyone dips into the porn bin a little. (The top users? Utah and Mississippi.) • source

25 Feb 2009 11:00

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Tech: The Internet in 1996 vs. 2008: My, how times have changed.

  • 30 minutes Amount of time people with Internet access spent online in 1996. (We were playing Quake, ourselves.) source
 

21 Feb 2009 16:39

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Tech: Why it sucks to be an iPhone app

  • 30% of apps get used the next day, then forgotten about source