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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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Cheddar for Tweets: @HuffingtonPost's Twitter-Based Revenue Scheme

Twitter still isn't showing interest in hunting down hard cash profits, but the ever-sneaky Huffington Post has worked out how it can profit from Twitter instead: By charging to embed Tweets into its blog comments. Genius? Or ...READ»

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Search Engine Wars: Google, Yahoo Fight Over Twitter--Google Wins

Ah search engine wars--always good to keep the tech savvy amused, and today's fight is really spiky: Google and Yahoo are competing over how to include Tweets in their results. They've got two approaches. But Google's is ...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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Facebook Privacy Update: Don't Use the Default Settings

Facebook turned on the adjustments to its privacy settings today, as promised. Some are good. But others seem ill-considered. Last week I teased Facebook for not delivering quite the service customers wanted. When will Facebook ...READ»

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Billboards Now Interactive, Will Get to 'Minority Report' Levels of Cleverness

Billboards seem so last-century don't they, with their huge paper posters and badly-glued peeling corners? You've obviously not been keeping up with the times then: Digital interactivity is the new trend, and it's just the ...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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Twitter Really Works: Makes $6.5 Million in Sales for Dell

All you doubting Thomases can shut up now: Lifecasting/social net Twitter really does work as a marketing tool, as confirmed by PC retail leviathan Dell. Dell started Tweeting about two years ago, when the system was pretty new. ...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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