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Re-Tweet Redesign Helps The Rich Get Richer On Twitter
4:25AM Ryan Tate | Twitter is offering a new way to quote other people’s tweets. The new “re-tweet” feature is both less useful and more confusing than the ad-hoc system that preceded it. But that’s OK, because it bolsters rich celebrities and dot-com millionaires. More »
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Google Billionaires Say Happy Days Are Here Again
3:30AM Ryan Tate | Good news, jobless poors: The recession is over, according to the billionaire nerds who run Google. Their computers told them so, and now the executives are in New York to spread the word and count their gold bars. More »
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The 25-Year-Old Multi-Billionaire
4:35AM Ryan Tate | Mark Zuckerberg is said by Forbes to be worth $US2 billion, up $US500 million from last year and equal to the lifetime earnings of around 2000 of the Facebook founder’s fellow non-college-graduates. What a difference six months makes. More »
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Celebunepotistic Art Mag Had Some Flaw, Somehow
12:13AM Hamilton Nolan | Tar magazine was an experiment to answer the timeless question: If you put some celebrities’ kids together with a bunch of random art world names, will you make a super successful magazine? No, you won’t. Live and learn. More »
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Class Divide Remains Strong Online
8:45PM Andrew Belonsky | Hooray! Even social networking sites have caste systems. Richie rich folk who live in urban areas use Twitter and Facebook more than their poor, younger country bumpkin counterparts, who still use something called MySpace. [Computer World]
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Newspaper Heiress Had Problems
12:49AM Hamilton Nolan | Anne Morell Petrillo, 38-year-old heiress to the Scripps newspaper fortune, jumped to her death off the Tappan Zee bridge last week. Trauma from a bad marriage and her mom’s brutal murder? Perhaps. But the NYT has an additional theory: More »
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