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Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace — Citation: boyd, danah. 2007. "Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace ." Apophenia Blog. June 24 . http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ ClassDivisions.html — (If you have comments, please add them to the related entry on my blog.
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BBC:
Social sites reveal class divide — Fans of MySpace and Facebook are divided by much more than which music they like, suggests a study. — A six-month research project has revealed a sharp division along class lines among the American teenagers flocking to the social network sites.
Market Wire:
SOURCE: Local.com — Local.com Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), a leading local search engine, today announced that the company has been awarded patent number 7,231,405 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the process of indexing and retrieving web-related information by geographical location.
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Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land:
Local.com Announces Patent For Location-Based Search — I've got a patent, you've got a patent. It seems that nearly everyone running an Internet company has a patent nowadays. Local.com is the latest to announce a patent in the local space. The patent (no. 7,231,405) …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google To Acquire GrandCentral — Google is in acquisition discussions with telephone management startup GrandCentral, we've learned, and we have a high degree of confidence that the deal has actually been closed. We are trying to nail down the acquisition price.
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The Register:
Plaxo looks to social networking market — Online address book provider Plaxo has introduced a major overhaul in an effort to catch up with networking sites such as LinkedIn and Facebook. — Plaxo has released Plaxo 3.0, an online address book and calendar that synchronises services from Microsoft …
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Samsung:
SAMSUNG Mass Producing Industry's First 1.8-inch, 64GB Solid State Drive, Targeted for Notebook PCs — Seoul, Korea - June 25, 2007: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced that it has begun mass producing 1.8-inch solid state drives …
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Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Google Reader Suffers Down Time — Google Reader, the market leading RSS reading platform according to some reports, appears to have suffered from technical difficulties resulting in feeds not refreshing from around 11pm US PST Sunday. — Reports on the Google Reader user forums would confirm the issue.
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Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
First Apple iPhone shipments arrive stateside — The first retail-bound volume shipments of Apple Inc.'s hotly anticipated iPhone device arrived successfully in the United States this past weekend, touching down quietly at a handful of drop locations just six days before the device is due …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Fujitsu's 12.1-inch T8140 tablet with SSD: 3.3-pounds, 11.3-hours — So you liked the looks of Fujitsu's tiny T4220 12.1-inch convertible tablet, right? Only that 3 hours off battery was a deal breaker. No worries, meet the smaller, lighter, and more efficient Lifebook T8140.
Associated Press:
Yahoo sales chief quits in reshuffling — The Internet firm will combine its search and display ad departments. — SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. said Sunday that its chief domestic sales officer had resigned and that the company would merge its search and display advertising departments …
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Nokia:
Nokia Eseries business devices broadly available in U.S. — White Plains, New York - Nokia today announces the availability of Nokia Eseries business devices in the U.S. through a variety of channels, allowing both business and individual users to obtain enterprise-grade dual-mode devices …
Grant Crowell / Search Engine Watch Blog:
blinkx launches contextual online video search ad platform — The video search engine blinkx today announced its new advertising platform, AdHoc, billed as "the first contextually relevant video advertising platform." The program is designed to offer all media companies and advertisers …
Dwight / TechBlog:
Making the leap to a Tablet PC — My lovely wife bought her computer, a Hewlett-Packard Pavilion dv1207us notebook, in August 2005. It was the first computer she could call her own, and she loves it. — It also was an impressive enough notebook for the money — she paid $850 for it at Best Buy …
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Ed Bott's Windows Expertise
Cliff Edwards / Business Week:
In DVD War, Both Sides Could Lose — Sure, Blockbuster has given Blu-ray a boost over HD DVD, but the high-definition DVD-format battles could be waged for years to come — When Atsutoshi Nishida took over as chief executive of Toshiba (TOSBF) two years ago, he had a simple plan …
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