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Ashton Kutcher's Live Webvids: Genius New Format or Celeb Desperation?

Ashton Kutcher was our surprising business story/eyecandy magazine cover subject for December, and here he is in the news again. This time it's for a new type of live Web-cast "TV" show, premiering today. It might be genius. Just ...READ»

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Architecture Bloopers, Cutting-Edge Kicks, and 12 Other Mind-Bending Stories This Week on FastCompany.com

This week, Fast Company was all about eye candy--for better and for worse. We found 300 of the world's hottest poster designs, 13 cutting-edge kicks, 12 groundbreaking pieces of digital art, and nine of the world's coolest cool ...READ»

User Backlash Forces Facebook Privacy Tweaks, Again

User Backlash Forces Facebook Privacy Tweaks, Again

Yesterday Facebook launched its attempt to push users into public posts, disguised as a privacy overhaul to safeguard them instead. I called it out for dodgy dealings, and it turns out many users did too. Facebook's changed stuff ...READ»

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Objection! Florida Bans Judges From "Friending" Lawyers on All Social-Networking Sites

In one of the craziest proclamations I've ever read, the Florida Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee has banned judges from "friending" lawyers on social-networking sites. The reason?READ»

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Today's Vision of Tomorrow: Apps With Everything, Everything With Apps

News coming out of the Le Web conference in Paris this week has prompted me to look at Apps and App Stores in a new light: In the future we can expect pretty much everything to have apps, and apps that'll do almost ...READ»

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Facebook Limits Google Live Search, But It Might Backfire

A big surprise was buried in Google's real time search cavalcade yesterday: The teeny, tiny role that Facebook played in the news. Accompanied by lots of "wow! look at that!" speech, Google's real-time search updates were the ...READ»

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Google Unveils Real Time Search, Translation, Image Searching, Goggles...Awkwardly

Google called a high-profile press conference today, and used it to unveil not one big feature, but a number of current and future tweaks to its service. The list was impressive, so we've rounded up some of the cleverest tech for you.READ»

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Facebook Locks Up Its User Safety With Global Advisory Board

Facebook's press release this morning sounds pretty humdrum on the face of it--"Facebook to Enhance User Safety Through Formation of Global Advisory Board" isn't much of an eye-grabber. But it's actually really, good news. ...READ»

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Coke Tries to Sell Coke Zero to You and Your Doppelganger

Ever wondered if there's someone out there right now who looks like you, and who just happens to be drinking a Coke? Well...no, neither have I. But Coke is dipping its toe into social network and face recognition tech to tell you this ...READ»

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With Redesign and Twitter Deal, Is Google Growing Up?

Google's got two new announcements: It's pairing up with Twitter for Friend Connect login purposes, and it's done the unthinkable and re-designed its home page. Both moves are surprising...do they mean the curly-haired youth of search ...READ»

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