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Facebook Goes International: Sees Impressive Growth Rates in Africa and Asia

Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 20, 2009 11:15 AM / 3 Comments

According to data compiled by O'Reilly's Ben Lorica, Facebook is currently seeing some very impressive growth outside of the United States. In Africa and Asia, for example, Facebook's active user Continue reading »

Flash Comes to the Living Room

Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 20, 2009 9:45 AM / 11 Comments

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Adobe today announced that it has partnered with a number of prominent content creators and hardware manufacturers to bring its Flash platform to the living room. As a part of Continue reading »

The State of the Smartphone: iPhone is Way, Way Ahead

Written by Sarah Perez / April 20, 2009 7:40 AM / 38 Comments

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A new industry report from mobile analytics firm Flurry reveals some unique insights into the smartphone industry as of right now. Because their firm focuses not just on iPhone, but Continue reading »

YouTube Testing Secret New Channels Beta

Written by Sarah Perez / April 20, 2009 5:57 AM / 13 Comments

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Word has it there's a secret link available on YouTube's site right now that will give you access to their new top-secret Channels beta testing program. Some YouTube users received Continue reading »

Twitter Experiments with New Status Notification, Faster Response

Written by Lidija Davis / April 19, 2009 4:01 PM / 39 Comments

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It appears Twitter is experimenting with some additional tweaks that may make status updates easier and faster for its users and could help decrease the back end load on its Continue reading »

The Future of Networked Warfare Begins with Apple

Written by Lidija Davis / April 19, 2009 1:58 PM / 20 Comments

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"The future of 'networked warfare' requires each soldier to be linked electronically to other troops as well as to weapons systems and intelligence sources," says a new report in Newsweek, Continue reading »

Facebook's Site Governance Vote: A Massive Con?

Written by Lidija Davis / April 19, 2009 12:46 PM / 28 Comments

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When Facebook announced it was opening its site governance to user voting late February, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg hailed it as an "unprecedented" effort to enable "participation on the Continue reading »

Recommendation Systems: Where Are We Now, Where Do We Need To Go?

Written by Guest Author / April 19, 2009 10:00 AM / 8 Comments

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A website (whether a URL, domain, brand, etc.) is a place where the owner, individual visitor, and broader web community come together for a shared purpose. At first, the web Continue reading »

Identify: Google People With Two Keystrokes

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 18, 2009 11:54 PM / 27 Comments

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There's a lot of information about many of us spread around the web and though privacy is important to discuss - there's also another side of that coin. It can Continue reading »

MI5: Desperately Seeking Q

Written by Lidija Davis / April 18, 2009 11:32 PM / 1 Comments

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Britain's domestic intelligence agency, more commonly known as MI5, is looking to appoint a chief scientific adviser "to lead and co-ordinate the scientific work of the Security Service so that Continue reading »

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