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Big Google Is Watching: Meet Your Creepy Google Dossier
6:32AM Ryan Tate | Today Google rolled out the “Google Dashboard”, which is supposed to “protect your privacy” by offering control panels for the company’s many products. But, really, it just scares the crap out of you. Google knows all. More »
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What Twitter Does To Your Brain
6:36AM Ryan Tate | It’s not the freak occurrence it might seem, Twitter’s co-founder submitting to psychoanalysis before a New York crowd. No, this sort of Jungian free-associating is what microblogging was expressly designed to do. More »
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Ellen Exploits Twitter’s Lists For Fun And Profit
12:37PM Ryan Tate | The “lists” feature Twitter just rolled out has been swiftly repurposed by the celebrity-industrial complex to pump up the accounts of tweeters like Ellen DeGeneres. Lists show celebrities exactly who can send them followers. And thus who to spam. More »
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MySpace’s Future: Online Slum For Depression Refugees
6:18AM Ryan Tate | It’s hard to imagine much of a future for MySpace. Which is probably why it took a science-fiction author to do so: Bruce Sterling says the flagging social network is an ideal shantytown for the nihilistic unemployed. Compelling! More »
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We Can Think Of Several Hundred Million Other Reasons
6:15AM Gabriel Snyder | Auletta: Google feared buying the NYT would “sabotage their identity as a neutral search engine”.
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The Secret Shame Of Social Networking: Scammers
4:42AM Ryan Tate | Silicon Valley pundits like to talk about social media as a potential geyser of cash. What they leave out is that one of the only ways social networks like Facebook, MySpace have done that is joining league with online scammers. More »
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The Great Newspaper Firewall Is Coming. And?
1:57AM Hamilton Nolan | Newsday is going to start charging for its awful website. One columnist there quit over it. The New York Times says it will make a decision on charging for its (good) website “within weeks”. Then what happens? More »
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Is Google Feeling Less Lucky Today?
4:01AM Ryan Tate | Who amputated Google? For one my laptop, running Firefox and Windows, the buttons for “Google Search” and “I’m Feeling Lucky” were amputated from Google.com. Instead, there’s this taunting minimalist slogan… More »
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Is Twitter Conspiring With Celebrities To Delete Your Mean Tweets?
3:29AM Ryan Tate | Blogger Mickey Kaus likes to send nastygrams to famous people, on Twitter, when the mood strikes him. And yet these messages sometimes disappear from Twitter search, despite the microblogging service’s well-established technical competence. Mere coincidence — ha! — or conspiracy? More »
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