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Did Twitter Just Pass Digg in Traffic? No Way.

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 20, 2009 1:11 PM / 17 Comments

Widely respected web traffic analyst firm Hitwise has just issued a report that we find, frankly, impossible to believe. Hitwise says that last week Twitter saw more web traffic than Continue reading »

Mozilla's Test Pilot: A Global Usability Lab for Firefox

Written by Frederic Lardinois / January 20, 2009 12:05 PM / 1 Comments

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Doing extensive usability studies has always been a problem for open source projects. Mozilla has decided to implement a new way of tackling this problem for its projects and is Continue reading »

Syncplicity - Easy Online Backup and Synchronization (300 Beta Invites for Mac Users)

Written by Frederic Lardinois / January 20, 2009 11:10 AM / 6 Comments

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Besides email and photo sharing, storing documents in the cloud and syncing them between different computers is quickly becoming one of the most common uses of cloud computing. Syncplicity is Continue reading »

Facebook and CNN: The Power of the Social Web Revealed

Written by Sarah Perez / January 20, 2009 10:29 AM / 20 Comments

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Today Barack Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of the United States. As several million people attended the inauguration in Washington D.C., Facebook and CNN invited the rest Continue reading »

Word Cloud Analysis of Obama's Inaugural Speech Compared to Bush, Clinton, Reagan, Lincoln's

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / January 20, 2009 9:58 AM / 132 Comments

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Barack Obama was just sworn in as President of the US and though he stumbled in repeating his oath, the speech that followed was delivered flawlessly and was widely praised Continue reading »

Finally - Get RSS Support for Google Chrome

Written by Sarah Perez / January 20, 2009 7:06 AM / 3 Comments

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Although many of us have been enjoying the speedy new browser from Google, Google Chrome, it's far from perfect. Despite being released from beta status in December, the browser still Continue reading »

The Next Android Smartphone

Written by Sarah Perez / January 20, 2009 6:04 AM / 6 Comments

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Here in the U.S., your choices in phones running Google's new Android operating system have been limited. If you weren't a fan of the T-Mobile G1 form factor - a Continue reading »

Public Sentiment: Taking the True Pulse of the Public with Farewell W, Aloha Obama

Written by Rick Turoczy / January 20, 2009 2:30 AM / 1 Comments

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There was a time not so long ago when traditional media provided the primary vehicle for voicing "public opinion," how the average person felt about the world at large. But, Continue reading »

Dipity: Visualizing the Passage of Time

Written by Rick Turoczy / January 19, 2009 11:45 PM / 5 Comments

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For many of us, our tributaries of social data find their way into our lifestream, an aggregated collection of our online activities. More often than not, that stream appears as Continue reading »

7 Online Things To Do To Help Obama Restore America

Written by Alex Iskold / January 19, 2009 6:50 PM / 74 Comments

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On Tuesday, January 20th, 2009, America and the whole world will gather to watch Barack Obama be inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America. Many Continue reading »

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