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What's on your mind? — People use status updates to share what's on their minds, to tell others what they're doing, and to gather feedback from friends. The different ways people use status updates form some interesting patterns. In this study, we looked at the usage of words in different “word categories” in status updates.
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All Facebook, Mashable!, FlowingData and VatorNews
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
On Facebook, Angry People Are More Popular (Plus Other Fascinating Statistical Correlations) — Facebook's data team proved once again today that when you analyze a large set of anonymous user data from the world's biggest social network, you can learn some very interesting things about the state of humanity.
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Tweetage Wasteland
Irina Slutsky / AdAge:
Why Google Dropped Groupon and Local Just Doesn't Scale — Prolific tech business analyst Paul Kedrosky made a name for himself as the founder of longtime blog Infectious Greed, one of the first editorial sites to cover internet investments and companies. He writes a column for Bloomberg …
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Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:
Google Woos Local Advertisers
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Search Engine Land and SAI
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Invents New Kind of Logo Antenna for Portables — While Apple was undergoing their “Antennagate” moment earlier this year, Apple's engineers were long at work on a new kind of antenna which Apple dubs the “logo antenna.” This new antenna is to hide behind the famous Apple logo thereby allowing …
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iPhone Buzz, Engadget, O'Grady's PowerPage, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, MacStories, MobileWhack.com, Faster Forward, Geek.com, Macgasm, Pulse2, SlashGear and 9 to 5 Mac
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Sightings from the Mac App Store — We just got our hands on some information about the upcoming Mac App Store. First here's a screenshot of the login page you will need to pass through in order to download apps. What's interesting based on the description is that you will be able to use …
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MacRumors, The Next Web, Softpedia News and SlashGear
Jordan Pouille:
Why I don't want an Iphone for Christmas. — Under the Christmas tree, some of us will hopefully find an Iphone 4 32G, an Ipad, a Dell computer, a Sony PSP or a Nokia smartphone. On the user manual, it shall be written how to handle it but certainly not how it has been made.
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Fortune, BGR, SAI and CrunchGear
Tony Bates / The Big Blog:
Another update: Skype stabilized — I wanted to continue to update you on the status of the outage. We've been able to successfully stabilize Skype due to the dedicated supernodes deployed by Skype's engineering team. We're at roughly 90 percent of normal user volumes. — Audio, video and IM are running normally.
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The Register, Forbes, Erictric, ReadWriteWeb, Neowin.net, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Skype Journal and GigaOM
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Abby Sewell / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Skype CEO says company may offer credit vouchers to paying customers
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eWeek, Bloomberg, The Big Blog, TechCrunch, MacNN and Business Wire
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
An iPhone Lover's Take On Windows Phone — Back in October, after the official launch of Windows Phone 7, I wrote up some initial thoughts after having played with a few prototype devices in the months leading up to the launch. Many seemed surprised by my mostly positive reactions.
Tricia Duryee / eMoney:
How PayNearMe Wants to Make Cash Cool Again — For just a minute, forget about futuristic stuff, like waving your mobile phone to pay for things. This Mountain View, Calif.-based company is trying to make cash cool again. — PayNearMe's goal is to come up with a solution for people …
Mark Rumold / Electronic Frontier Foundation:
Sending Money Overseas for the Holidays? The Government Wants to Know. — What do an online donation to the International Red Cross, a bank transfer to family members living in Vietnam, and a payment sent through PayPal for an expensive rug in Turkey have in common? The government wants to know about them.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Google And NORAD Team Up Once Again To Track Santa — Needed any more sign that Christmas is upon us? The annual Google and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) partnership to track Jolly Saint Nick is back in action, starting tomorrow at 2:00 am EST despite the fact …
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CNN, GigaOM, Guardian, CNET News, McSweeney's, Google LatLong, Associated Press, Computerworld, Pocket-lint, greg hughes, Examiner, Geek News Central, SAI, WebProNews, Search Engine Land, Erictric, Engadget and The Next Web
Abby Sewell / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Cherokee Nation looks to iPhone app to help save its language — Cherokee Nation tribal officials are hoping that an iPhone app can help save their tribe's disappearing language. — The Associated Press reports that the tribe has worked with Apple to develop Cherokee language software …
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eWeek, AppleInsider, Macgasm, Associated Press, Computerworld, Digital Trends, AfterDawn.com and CNET News
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Financial Times names Steve Jobs ‘Person of the Year’ — Calls his “the most remarkable comeback in modern business history” — The Financial Times has given Apple's (AAPL) CEO the honorific Time Magazine never did. From the citation in the current edition:
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AppleInsider, MacStories, Black Web 2.0, Financial Times, Redmond Pie, PadGadget, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, paidContent:UK, Computerworld and IntoMobile
Drew Wilson / ZeroPaid.com:
Exclusive: MegaUpload Issues Response to RIAA Over Mastercard Cutoff — Yesterday, we reported on the RIAAs efforts to get Mastercard to cut off payments to MegaUpload. Today, we have received an exclusive response from MegaUpload on this news. — Blocking so-called “rogue websites” …
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Karl Bode / DSLreports:
FCC Releases Full Neutrality Rules - Rules come with three major th...oh look, Santa! — FCC Releases Full Neutrality Rules — Rules come with three major th...oh look, Santa! — by Karl Bode 16 minutes ago — Two days after the FCC voted 3-2 along partisan lines to approve …
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Engadget, NewEnterprise, TechCrunch and Electronista
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Cecilia Kang / Post Tech:
FCC chair to approve Comcast-NBC merger with conditions for program sharing
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