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		<title>Twitter&#8217;s New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Tate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter today announced it will prompt users to post by asking &#8220;What&#8217;s happening?&#8221; rather than the old &#8220;What are you doing?&#8221; We asked a prominent linguist if this means anything. Turns out it does: Twitterers are no longer such loners.
In short, Twitter&#8217;s new slogan reflects the microblogging service&#8217;s evolution from a venue for self expression [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Named In Federal Class-Action Suit Over Scammy Ads</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Tate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook and Zynga are the defendants in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, which seeks upwards of $US5 million for social network users scammed in online game ads. Neither company&#8217;s top-drawer investors can be happy.
The suit was probably inevitable. As we first reported, the Sacramento-based firm of Kershaw, Cutter &#038; Ratinoff has been looking for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>80% Won&#8217;t Pay For Online Content, The Other 20% Are Lying</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Tate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forrester Research has a new study out that Rupert Murdoch should probably download: Of 4000 people polled, 80 per cent will not pay for online newspapers or magazines, and the rest are divided on how they want to pay.
That&#8217;s bad news not only for News Corp chairman Murdoch but also for all the other old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Kids Work Cheap For Google</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Tate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s great that Google has contests awarding money and computers to school children. Less great: It gives the victor in India one-twentieth of what an American kid gets for winning the same contest.
Puru Pratap&#8217;s design to spruce up the Google logo for a day (see below) beat out designs from other Indian contestants. It ran [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hollywood Invents Celebrity Twittering For Dollars</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:37:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard Rushfield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When show business spots a corner of public consciousness not colonised by product placement and paid endorsements, its experts spring to work to take care of that.
Twitter has been around for years already, but at last Hollywood has completed its exploitation project.
The Wrap reports that one brave company has now led the charge for celebrities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google&#8217;s Search Box Suggestions Hide Nothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Tate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are things you don&#8217;t tell your husband. There are things you don&#8217;t tell your therapist. But virtually everything can go into Google&#8217;s search box &#8212; for Google to re-broadcast to the world, via its &#8220;suggestion&#8221; feature.
Blogger Ben Casnocha&#8217;s friend told him, &#8220;There is nowhere we are more honest than the search box. We don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why News Corp. Keeps Threatening To Leave Google</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/11/why-news-corp-keeps-threatening-to-leave-google/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Tate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the second time this week, News Corp. has promised to yank its content from Google, this time within &#8220;months&#8221;. The conglomerate said loudly that search is profitless. But maybe that&#8217;s just its way of making search hugely profitable.
News Corp. Chief Digital Officer Jonathan Miller (pictured) said at a Monaco media event that his conglomerate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Papers Find Facebook Status Too Risque To Print</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/11/papers-find-facebook-status-too-risque-to-print/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ravi Somaiya</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Post and the Times both covered this story, about a man accused of robbery whose alibi was a Facebook status update. Both papers though, censored the update itself, which was apparently &#8220;indecipherable&#8221;. Except it wasn&#8217;t.
The Times story, on The Local blog, opened with this:
 Where&#8217;s my pancakes, read Rodney Bradford&#8217;s Facebook page, in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incessantly Updating Your Facebook Status CAN Be A Good Idea!</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/11/so-it-turns-out-incessantly-updating-your-facebook-status-can-be-a-good-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jess McGuire</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I&#8217;m honest with myself, I am absolutely guilty of updating my Facebook status regularly without having anything of any importance to say. Nevertheless, I still roll my eyes and make fun of other people who do the same thing. But what do I know? Turns out updating your status constantly might stop you from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Class Action Suit In The Works For Victims Of Social Gaming Scams</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/11/class-action-suit-in-the-works-for-victims-of-social-gaming-scams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Tate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook and MySpace might finally pay the price for the big social gaming scandal: At least one law firm is investigating whether to launch a class action suit on behalf of duped users.
Sacramento-based Kershaw, Cutter &#038; Ratinoff, LLP is looking for people who faced &#8220;unauthorised charges imposed on Facebook and MySpace users who participate in [...]]]></description>
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