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Behind the Web's Dark Shadows: Who’s following you?

Posted May 29, 2012 - 4:16 pm

A cool new site called Me & My Shadow lets you find out which traces of digital data you leave behind as you surf.
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Just how much of an Klout a***hat are you?

Posted April 27, 2012 - 4:10 pm

Do you brag about your Klout score? Then you're probably a Klouchebag. This new site will reveal just how Klouchey you are.
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Retro Wednesday: Today's video games and Web sites, yesterday!

Posted April 4, 2012 - 2:07 pm

What if Twitter, Facebook and Angry Birds were developed 30 years ago?
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Social spam is taking over the Internet

Posted April 3, 2012 - 3:06 pm

Bogus accounts and fake comments planted by spambots -- get ready for the future of the social Web.
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Five things you should never do on Facebook (or anywhere else)

Posted March 29, 2012 - 2:19 pm

What you say and do online can land you in divorce court, the unemployment line, or prison. Check out these five real-life tales of social media woe.
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Top 5 business benefits of social enterprise tools

Posted March 19, 2012 - 4:06 pm

Organizations understand the benefits of social tools, but few are going beyond Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Federal judge rules Anons are free to destroy civilization via Twitter

Posted March 19, 2012 - 3:17 pm

The batch of alleged members of Anonymous arrested last week haven't been in long enough to ask the judge for things, but a 28-year-old the DoJ accuses of participating in DDOS attacks on PayPal won the right to go back on Twitter while out on bail. IRC is still verboten.
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Some challenging evidence (with cinnamon on top) that our culture is doomed

Posted March 16, 2012 - 1:59 pm

The reality show Fear Factor will never run out of shameless contestants, if the revival of an old Internet dare "game" is any indication.
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When you tweet, the CIA listens

Posted March 15, 2012 - 12:49 pm

Documents obtained by privacy advocates reveal that Uncle Sam is monitoring social networks for people critical of the government. Can an enemies list be far behind?
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Making Facebook private won't protect you

Posted March 6, 2012 - 2:54 pm

State agencies are forcing prospective employees to reveal their private Facebook profiles -- or face the consequences.
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Twitter campaign prompts mattress firm to drop Rush Limbaugh sponsorship

Posted March 2, 2012 - 2:45 pm

An ignorant comment from professional hater Rush Limbaugh sparked a furor on Twitter that forced an advertiser to pull its sponsorship from his radio show.
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Simplest way to preserve a little privacy online: Lie

Posted March 1, 2012 - 5:04 pm

Google, Twitter and almost every other online service is collecting data on your web habits like a famished squirrel in a field full of nuts. If your corn dog vendor asked for your address, phone and Social just for a dog, you'd scoff. Do the virtual version of the same online
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Yammer pulls down $85 million in venture funding

Posted March 1, 2012 - 2:34 pm

Yammer, a four-year-old company that offers social networking tools for enterprises, has raised $85 million in its fifth round of venture financing.
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Time to clean out old Tweets so they won't define you the rest of your life

Posted February 28, 2012 - 3:40 pm

DataSift, which already packages data from MySpace, Facebook and other social networks, now has access to approximately 182,500,000,000 individual Tweets clients can use to research brand image, identify new customers or just see what you ate for lunch Jan. 27, 2010.
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Yes, Mr. Zuckerberg, people do care about their privacy

Posted February 26, 2012 - 12:16 pm

A new Pew Research survey shows that more Americans than ever are choosing to go private on Facebook and Twitter. It's time to for the "privacy is dead" lie to die.
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Facebook's troubling trend Down Under

Posted February 20, 2012 - 5:34 pm

Has Facebook Fatigue hit Australia? Data shows that time spent on the social networking site is down 21% in the land down under.
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'Intrigued' Kleiner Perkins mulls $100 million cloud services fund

Posted February 10, 2012 - 8:27 pm

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is considering a $100 million fund specializing in cloud services start-ups.
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Lada Gaga latest celeb to join Google+

Posted January 17, 2012 - 9:01 pm

The Google+ constellation just got a little brighter as popular singer Lady Gaga joins the new social network that is challenging Facebook.
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Rupert Murdoch uses the Twitter to blast Obama on SOPA, issue cry for help

Posted January 16, 2012 - 6:07 am

Shortly after gambling in a Las Vegas casino, News. Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch accuses President Obama of supporting pirates who want to steal stuff.
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Rupert Murdoch finally admits what everyone else already knew

Posted January 13, 2012 - 2:35 pm

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch tweets that his company made a huge blunder with social networking roadkill Myspace.
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How to get unfollowed by me on Twitter

Posted January 11, 2012 - 5:19 pm

It seems everyone has their own Twitter pet peeves. Here are eight of mine, and one that seems to drive everyone else crazy, but doesn't bother me in the slightest.
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Rupert Murdoch Twitter exclusive: Santorum 'only candidate with genuine big vision for country'

Posted January 3, 2012 - 3:39 pm

News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch used his new Twitter account on Tuesday to urge Iowans to consider Rick Santorum in the GOP caucuses.
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Rupert Murdoch follows 4 people on Twitter: Are you one of them?

Posted January 2, 2012 - 3:33 pm

News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch joins microblogging service Twitter, declares "vacations great time for thinking."
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2011: The year Facebook killed Google

Posted December 30, 2011 - 9:06 am

I used to discover new content via Google. Now I find it using Facebook and Twitter. And millions of others are doing it too.
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How much are your tweets worth?

Posted December 28, 2011 - 5:03 pm

Mobile news site Phonedog is suing former employee Noah Kravitz for $340K, claiming it owns his Twitter followers. But what does PhoneDog owe Kravitz for his tweets?
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