July 2011
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June 2011
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The One Google Plus Feature Facebook Should Fear →
To be honest, my gut reaction after using Google Plus was initially, “Why on earth would anybody switch to this from Facebook?” However, when I loaded up Google Finance as I do every morning, I suddenly realized that I was asking the wrong question. The reality is that users won’t have the option of not using Google Plus. That big notifications box in the top right of all Google sites is the...
Jun 30th
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“Through information design, social context, or some other proxy for meaning, the...”
– Feedback Loops Are Changing What People Do | Wired.com | (via gracemcdunnough)
Jun 29th
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Jun 29th
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“On Facebook I overshare. On Twitter, I undershare. If Google hits that spot in...”
– Shimrit Ben-Yair, product manager in charge of the social graph | Inside Google — How the Search Giant Plans to Go Social | Wired 
Jun 29th
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“We believe online sharing is broken. And even awkward. We think connecting...”
– Vic Gundotra | Google Project: It’s Social, It’s Bold, It’s Fun, And It Looks Good — Now For The Hard Part
Jun 29th
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“Parkinson’s Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its...”
– 3 tips for getting more done in fewer hours — WebWorkerDaily
Jun 29th
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“Turntable.fm’s design and features are already so powerful that, as one industry...”
– Can Turntable.fm Survive Its Popularity? | Wired.com
Jun 28th
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“For the sake of simplicity and minimalism, Google may even bring the hidden...”
– Evan Williams | evhead: Five Reasons Domains Are Getting Less Important
Jun 23rd
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“Passion is essential to success,” one Silicon Valley entrepreneur told me,...”
– The Value of Following Passion in a Jobless World 
Jun 23rd
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“What Facebook does when it selects “like” versus...”
– Eli Pariser | CultureLab: Breaking out of the internet filter bubble
Jun 23rd
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To Tumblr or Not to Tumblr →
steverubel: For those of you who are curious about Tumblr Mitch Wagner and Gina Trapani are having a a good debate on the merits of the format. Gina favors owning her own restaurant vs. merely just having franchises - though she does both. Mitch says Tumblr gets him in the mall where the traffic is (my words in both cases, not theirs). Meanwhile Tumblr and Twitter investor Fred Wilson notes the...
Jun 22nd
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“I prefer doing startups when the going’s tough. The best time to start a...”
– Caterina Fake | Everything We Know About Caterina Fake’s New Startup, 2bkco 
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Jun 18th
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“The American dream cannot survive if we keep telling the dreamers to go...”
–  Mayor Bloomberg | Hell Yes, Mayor Bloomberg. I’m With You.
Jun 16th
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Social networking sites and our lives | Pew... →
REPORT: Facebook revives “dormant” relationships. In this sample, the average Facebook user has 229 Facebook friends. They reported that their friends list contains: 22% people from high school 12% extended family 10% coworkers 9% college friends 8% immediate family 7% people from voluntary groups 2% neighbors Over 31% of Facebook friends cannot be classified into these categories....
Jun 16th
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Social networking sites and our lives | Pew... →
REPORT: The number of those using social networking sites has nearly doubled since 2008 and the population of SNS users has gotten older. 79% of American adults said they used the internet and nearly half of adults (47%), or 59% of internet users, say they use at least one of social network. The average age of adult-SNS users has shifted from 33 in 2008 to 38 in 2010. Over half of all adult SNS...
Jun 16th
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Quora: Is it possible to pick a young lady up in a... →
arig: Ha (via: caro:) From the answers: “Even if the date goes badly: the apartment has HBO. You literally cannot lose in this situation.”
Jun 16th
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What does the journalism future look like? →
futurejournalismproject: A Pulitzer Prize-winning tweet is inevitable.
Jun 14th
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Jason Calacanis: "Blogging Is Dead" & Why "Stupid... →
Calacanis thinks that Web 3.0 will be the “Age of Expertise.” Blogging brought about the era of Web 2.0 where people who may not have had a voice before could publish whatever they want. The rise of kittens on the Web, for instance. Add the ability to comment on stories and then share them through social media and Web 2.0 was the Age of Interactivity. “The concept of journalism...
Jun 13th
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