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Why Streamy Could be the Next FriendFeed

Written by Sarah Perez / August 11, 2009 12:00 PM / 97 Comments

In wake of the news of the FriendFeed acquisition by Facebook, we're faced with the real possibility that FriendFeed.com will be shut down for good. According to the press release, Continue reading »

Product Managers & Marketers: What The Internet of Things Means For You

Written by Richard MacManus / August 11, 2009 3:05 AM / 20 Comments

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Some of you may be reading our series on the Internet of Things and wondering: what use is this to me in my daily work? So one day my fridge Continue reading »

Your "Real" Friends are Your Online Friends (or so Says Gen Y)

Written by Sarah Perez / August 10, 2009 7:17 AM / 34 Comments

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Is it easier to talk to your online buddies than your friends out there in the "real world?" Do you feel like you know more about what's happening in the Continue reading »

Prepare Yourselves: Augmented Reality Hype on the Rise

Written by Sarah Perez / August 7, 2009 7:08 AM / 24 Comments

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Augmented reality -- or the addition of a layer to the world before your eyes (aka the "real world") using technology -- is the next big tech trend. Already making Continue reading »

Twitter's Most Active Users: Bots, Dogs, and Tila Tequila

Written by Frederic Lardinois / August 5, 2009 12:00 PM / 30 Comments

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Only 5% of Twitter's users account for 75% of all the activity on the service, and almost one third of all the tweets posted by the most active users come Continue reading »

The Cloud Isn't Safe?! (Or Did Black Hat Just Scare Us?)

Written by Sarah Perez / August 5, 2009 9:30 AM / 12 Comments

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At last week's Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas, a number of security researchers demonstrated new ways of attacking cloud computing services. One of the more notable presentations, "Clobbering Continue reading »

SlideShare Used to Spread Malware

Written by Sarah Perez / August 5, 2009 6:30 AM / 9 Comments

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When it comes to spreading malware on the web, virus writers are nothing if not creative. We've seen malware infiltrate everything from Facebook to Twitter to email to IM. Now Continue reading »

Web Squared: When Web 2.0 Meets Internet of Things

Written by Richard MacManus / August 5, 2009 5:30 AM / 13 Comments

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Recently Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle released a white paper entitled Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On. It focuses squarely, pardon the pun, on the intersection of social web Continue reading »

Journalism Needs Data in 21st Century

Written by Guest Author / August 5, 2009 2:00 AM / 12 Comments

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Journalism has always been about reporting facts and assertions and making sense of world affairs. No news there. But as we move further into the 21st century, we will have Continue reading »

Why Cloud Computing is the Future of Mobile

Written by Sarah Perez / August 4, 2009 8:50 AM / 21 Comments

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The term "cloud computing" is being bandied about a lot these days, mainly in the context of the "future of the web." But cloud computing's potential doesn't begin and end Continue reading »

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