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Brad J. Ward / SquaredPeg:
There's something going down on Facebook. Pay attention. — I really need you to listen up for this post. Please. — Something is going down on Facebook, and it has implications for your school. — Several weeks ago I was contacted by my friend and colleague Michelle at Winthrop …
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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Marketing: College Prowler Caught Using Fake Accounts and Facebook Groups to Build List — In what could be remembered as one of the larger exposés of aggressive viral marketing tactics on Facebook to date, a recruiter in the Butler University admissions department …
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
The Year of the Simpler Gadget — THE National Bureau of Economic Research hardly stunned the nation this month when it announced that the United States had been in recession since December 2007. — And, as it turns out, the buyers of consumer electronics could very well have been a leading economic indicator.
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
“Holy F**king S**t I Was Just In A Plane Crash!” — A Continental airlines 737 slid off the runway in Denver last night. The engine on the right side burst into flames. Passengers escaped out the left side on slides. 38 people were hurt. Fortunately no one was killed.
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Apple 2.0:
What the recession means for the Mac — Money gets tight. Buyers get picky. Price-sensitive consumers — the kind Steve Jobs and Apple famously “choose not to serve” — start shopping for bargain basement PCs and Taiwanese netbooks. Mac sales plummet. — That's the conventional wisdom.
Tarmo Virki / Reuters:
Nokia eases access to Internet services — HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia on Sunday removed one of the key obstacles for takeup of its new Internet offering, combining sign-ins for its overall services site Ovi.com and for its media sharing service. — Nokia has bought a dozen companies …
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Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:
Need a Ride? Check Your iPhone — SOON you may no longer need to stick out your thumb to catch a ride. Instead, you may get one by tapping your fingers on your iPhone. — Avego, based in Kinsale, Ireland (www.avego.com), is demonstrating an iPhone application intended to let drivers …
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Smart Mobs
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
Nvidia bids to dislodge Intel as rivalry gets ugly — Intel and Nvidia are entering into a new, nasty phase of competition. What's at stake? Only the future of the personal computer. — Though the Santa Clara, Calif., neighbors (only a couple of miles from each other) …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Sony teaser site says “revolutionary new VAIO” coming January 9th — Look, we're not going to speculate on what Sony has coming on January 9th. Let's just say that it wouldn't be totally surprising to see some weird, long netbook. Okay? Okay. — [Thanks to everyone who sent this in]
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Macenstein:
Is this the new Mac mini? — An anonymous tip (the best kind). Thoughts? — Click to embiggen.
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Ronald Ho / Docs Blog:
Access Google Docs from your Desktop — If you often work with Google Docs, you probably want more ways to access your docs quickly. A recent example is the handy Docs gadget in Gmail that shows a list of your recently accessed Google Docs right from within Gmail.
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Jack Schofield / Guardian:
Twitter Venn, text snowflakes and other entertainments — One of the interesting things about Twitter is the fast-growing “tweecosystem” of add-ons and applications that expand or exploit the basic service. I've just been playing with a new one called Twitter Venn, which lets you display searches as Venn diagrams.
