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Twitter’s New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In
8:50AM Ryan Tate | Twitter today announced it will prompt users to post by asking “What’s happening?” rather than the old “What are you doing?” We asked a prominent linguist if this means anything. Turns out it does: Twitterers are no longer such loners. More »
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Google’s Search Box Suggestions Hide Nothing
7:38AM Ryan Tate | There are things you don’t tell your husband. There are things you don’t tell your therapist. But virtually everything can go into Google’s search box — for Google to re-broadcast to the world, via its “suggestion” feature. More »
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Everyone Is Getting Twitterjacked
8:49AM Ryan Tate | The New York Post appears to be the latest victim of Twitter-stream hijacking, judging from the newspaper’s latest tweet. But this has been happening all to often lately. More »
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Exposed: Stealth Facebook Show-Offs
1:00AM Ryan Tate | Learn to decode subtle Facebook brags, and become annoyed with your “friends” all over again.
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Why Is Everyone On Twitter So Maddeningly Positive?
2:02AM Ryan Tate | It’s so hard to start a good fight on Twitter. Praise someone effusively, it gets “re-tweeted” endlessly, while nice juicy feuds get smothered in the crib. Every Twitter user is president of his own fraternity. How stale! More »
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Facebook, Twitter Make You Easy Prey
6:00PM Andrew Belonsky | Sigh. Here we thought Facebook, MySpace and all those silly little websites were making our lives easier. Not so! More »
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Twitter: A Sad Replacement For Your Social Life
2:53AM Ryan Tate | Young people are indifferent to Twitter, a hot topic the New York Times is mulling today. But no one’s really figured out why. Our theory: Young people have lives, and Twitter is for creaking shut-ins. More »
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Internet Your Way Out Of Depression
4:51AM Ryan Tate | In Britain, the death panel NHS commonly makes you wait a year to see a shrink, so some people just chat with therapists over instant messenger. Go figure: It actually works. So what about Tumblr, and so forth? More »
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Paramount Not Catering Premieres From Whole Foods
12:53AM Richard Lawson | A story went around a while back that Paramount flubbed the catering at its Star Trek premiere , sending out for Whole Foods hummus instead. Not true, the studio says. Who can afford Whole Foods anymore? More »
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