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Racism in Social Networks

BY Marc HausmanSun Oct 11, 2009 at 10:04 PM

Are social networks inherently racist? This is an uncomfortable question, yet it's important to ask.READ»

Silentale Will Archive Your Every Word, but Is a Searchable Life a Liability?

BY Clay DillowTue Sep 8, 2009 at 10:08 AM

The perpetually declining cost of data storage has made our lives, especially the online versions of them, more savable and searchable than ever before. Server farms are growing faster than strawberries on FarmVille, with demand for ...READ»

SOCIAL NETWORKS | 1 comment

Facebook Aims for the Heart of Mobile Social Networking: Apps

BY Kit EatonThu Sep 3, 2009 at 10:37 AM

When I joked everything would soon be wired to a social network the other day I didn't realize how close I was to the mark. Because social net giant Facebook is angling to become the vehicle that lets everything on your smartphone get ...READ»

SOCIAL NETWORKING | 1 comment

Five Incredibly Entertaining Niche Social Networks

BY Lynne d JohnsonWed Sep 2, 2009 at 5:17 PM

Social networking has completely tangled itself into the fabric of our daily lives, and though Facebook is still de rigueur, people with specific interests and advertisers who want to reach those people are becoming more the norm. For ...READ»

TWITTER | 14 comments

Twitter Hasn't Jumped the Shark (and probably never will)

BY JD RuckerFri Jul 31, 2009 at 5:06 AM

Internet fads have proven to be short-lived, "jumping the shark" and falling from grace as swiftly as they rose. Twitter will prove to be the exception because of its one permanently-redeeming quality: simplicity.READ»

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What Is Twitter? Apparently, No One Knows

BY Stephanie SchomerTue Jul 28, 2009 at 9:22 AM

You may feel like you can't escape Twitter, but many are doing just that: A new study shows that nearly 70% of adults don't know what Twitter is.READ»

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MICROSHARING | 2 comments

Twitterbursts: It’s Not About The Tools; It’s All About The Tools

BY Marcia ConnerSun Jun 28, 2009 at 6:20 AM

If you think microsharing (Twitter and it's enterprise-strength counterparts) is new, consider that humans have conveyed short messages, rife with meaning, for over thirty thousand years. Smoke signals have traversed the airways. Expressive quips filled Seinfeld’s show. At all stages and ages, we burst forward. So what is new, what makes this a revolution?READ»

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Tweeters Buy More Music--Twitter's Halo Effect?

BY Kit EatonWed Jun 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM

Users of Twitter buy more music than people who don't Twitter. This seems to be a classic halo-effect, but is it actually being caused by Twitter?READ»

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Search Engine Wars: Google Aims for Social Search, as Microsoft Chases It With Bing

BY Kit EatonTue May 26, 2009 at 7:13 AM

Speaking in Japan yesterday, a Google spokesman confirmed that the giant search-engine company wants to offer social-networking style search results. It's Google's latest tweak, and it comes as Microsoft launches its rival Bing ...READ»

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