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Video Interview: Hot Potato Founder Justin Shaffer | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsDHot Potato Is Ready to Eat: Do Twitter, Facebook Users Want Another Real-Time Chatter Service? by Peter Kafka Last month I told you about Hot Potato , one of the buzziest start-ups in the very buzzy “real time” sector. Now you can check out the service yourself . But not really. The ...
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Good Bloggers Make Good Neighbors, New Survey ShowsBack in the day, it was assumed that heavy Internet geeks were a bunch of basement-dwelling, trenchcoat-wearing, socially maladjusted introverts. However, a new study from the Pew Internet Project shows that geeks, including IM users and bloggers, are more likely to help neighbors, get out of ...
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If you see someone bleeding to death, will you call 911 or tweet it?NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth
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Does Technology Reduce Social Isolation?Hundreds of daily updates come from friends on Facebook and Twitter, but do people actually feel closer to each other? It turns out the size of the average American’s social circle is smaller today than 20 years ago, as measured by the number of self-reported confidants in a person’s life. Yet ...
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Who's not using the internet? | Culture | The ObserverDo you remember your first time – the trepidation, the expectation, the rite of passage? Mine was in 1997 – "things can only get better" – opening up the heavy black Mac Powerbook I'd just unwrapped, going through the unintelligible process of account creation with a patient BT support desk, ...
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Foursquare, a Social Network Site, Puts Users Face to FaceFace-to-Face Socializing Starts With a Mobile Post Twitter and Facebook ask users to answer the question: What are you doing right now? But for many urbanites in their 20s and 30s, two other questions are just as important: Where are you, and can I come join you? For them, a ...
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Is Interdependence the Future?They say (the Buddhists) we're all interdependent. And on a conceptual level, I think most of us would agree with this . . . The idea is that everything in nature is interdependent. While I am not a Buddhist, I believe this theory is the best explanation for the existence of phenomena in ...
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How Facebook Can Ruin Your Friendships - WSJ.comNotice to my friends: I love you all dearly. But I don't give a hoot that you are "having a busy Monday," your child "took 30 minutes to brush his teeth," your dog "just ate an ant trap" or you want to "save the piglets." And I really, really don't care which Addams Family member you most ...
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The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting. - By Emily Yoffe - Slate MagazineSeeking How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that's dangerous. By Emily Yoffe Posted Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009, at 5:40 PM ET Seeking. You can't stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a ...
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Google Announces Opt-Out Village « The Scholarly KitchenA bit of Friday fun comes from a consistent source — the Onion News Network . Worried about your personal data ...
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