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Ars Technica acquired by Condé Nast: the low-down
via Ars Technica by caesar@arstechnica.com (Ken Fisher) on May 18, 2008
In less than a month, Ars Technica will be 10 years old. In 10 years time we've accomplished much, but uncovered far more work we want to do. Today we take steps towards making our second decade online much more important than our first.Read More...
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Tengaged: Meet New Friends. Then Eliminate Them.
via Mashable! by Sean P. Aune on May 16, 2008
Tengaged, a new social site for meeting friends and playing to popular opinion, is bringing aspects of the well-known “Big Brother” game to the Internet.The system seems pretty straightforward. You sign up for a game, and as soon as the one you’ve chosen gets a list of 10 people, the play begins. For the duration of the game - which runs for seven days - you get to know the other players...
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The Importance Of Being An Early Adopter
via Mashable! by Stan Schroeder on May 16, 2008
Back in the summer of 2006, a new and - to many - not that interesting service called Twttr was launched as a side project from Odeo. It was later renamed to Twitter, and it started gaining some serious traction somewhere in 2007.At the time of Twitter’s humble beginnings, it didn’t seem very important to actively use the service. Most people I know sat on the sidelines and waited to see if...
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Researchers: written English language will weather LOL storm
via Ars Technica by jacqui@arstechnica.com (Jacqui Cheng) on May 14, 2008
Teenagers may be widely characterized as the most prominent abusers of "IM speak," but it turns out that they don't use it as much as we think—and it's not hurting their language skills either. Read More...
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Is your ISP using Phorm on you? Get AntiPhorm!
via Download Squad by Jay Hathaway on May 15, 2008
Filed under: Security, WindowsThis is primarily for our readers in the UK, but it's part of a growing trend that should concern Internet users everywhere. Phorm is a notorious advertising system that tracks the browsing activities of customers of huge companies like BT (a major British ISP) and Virgin Media. The data is collected and used to sell targeted advertising, which has a lot of...
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Google Deals A Blow To Anti-Scientology: Anonymous’ AdSense Acc Canceled
via Mashable! by Stan Schroeder on May 14, 2008
... context wrong, serving a bunch of pro-Scientology ads there (which are, most probably, the only Scientology-related ads there are). Google’s explanation for the cancellation, from their letter to Enturbulation, is this: “While going through our records recently, we found that your AdSense account has posed a significant risk to our AdWords advertisers. Since keeping your account in our p...
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YouTube Insights: Now With Demographic Stats
via Mashable! by Adam Ostrow on May 14, 2008
There is a reason why web sites ask you for your age, gender, and zip code – the ability to target advertising based on demographic data. Now, YouTube is putting that data in the hands of video producers, allowing you to see on a video-by-video basis the demographic breakdown of your viewers.For now, you get a bar chart representing the percentage of your audience in different age groups, and...
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Mormons, Scientologists face uphill battle against Wikileaks
via Ars Technica by nate@arstechnica.com (Nate Anderson) on May 13, 2008
Both the Mormons and the Scientologists are upset about confidential church documents posted on Wikileaks. Can religion succeed where Swiss bankers have failed?Read More...
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No off switch: "Hyperconnectivity" on the rise
via Ars Technica by dchartier@arstechnica.com (David Chartier) on May 13, 2008
According to a new study, "hyperconnected" employees who increasingly juggle devices, applications, and communications are on the rise in a big way. The possibility for "information overload" looms larger than ever.Read More...
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Blip is like Twitter for music, or rather Twitter plus music
via Download Squad by Brad Linder on May 13, 2008
Filed under: Audio, Internet, Web services, Social Software, web 2.0If your Twitter home page is filled with messages from friends linking out to other web sites where you can watch a video, read and article, or listen to a song, Blip might be for you. While Twitter is 100% text based, people tend to use the micro-blogging service to share links to multimedia files. Blip, on the other hand, is a...
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