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Beware 12 Scams of Christmas

Online schemes take advantage of the holiday spirit

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WHAT'S YOUR VICE?

Twitter = Crack, and
Other Web Equivalents

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big brother

Vulgar Online Comment Costs Man His Job

He posts dirty word, then gets tracked via his IP address

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BIG BROTHER

Cops Use Facebook to Bust Underage Drinkers

Phony 'friend' gains access to drinking photos

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TRAVEL

Anonymous Posters Bedevil TripAdvisor

Hotel ranking site shows dangers of crowdsourcing

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FARHAD MANJOO

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Facebook's
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Enough with the sonogram pictures and toilet training status updates

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Secret Google Phone Is Real—Really

It's rumored to be a VoIP-only device made by Samsung or LG

Nov 18, 09 2:14 PM CST
OPINION

'Unfriend' Is Scam,
Not Word, of Year

This is one big hacky trend piece, writes Adrian Chen

Nov 17, 09 9:08 AM CST
Google Ditches
Mapmakers,
Hires ... You?

Google ditches industry giant for user content, and others follow

Nov 17, 09 9:56 AM CST

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Google Boss: Chinese Language Will Dominate Web

Also in 5 years: social media will rule

By Kevin Spak| Posted Oct 28, 09 1:28 PM CDT|

(Newser) – The Internet will look completely different in five years, predicts Google CEO Eric Schmidt; after all, he notes, five years is a factor of 10 according to Moore’s law of ever-increasing speed. The Google CEO expounded on the future of the web at length at a recent symposium, but ReadWriteWeb pulled out some of his most interesting predictions and thoughts. Including:

The Internet will be dominated by content in Chinese.
We’ll jump from application to application seamlessly.
Broadband will improve so much that the technical distinctions between radio, TV, and web will disappear.
Users will focus predominantly on social media, rather than traditional sources.

In the present, Schmidt revealed that Google is trying to rank real-time search info, that it’s making “significant money” on YouTube, and that a Google Netbook will hit next year.

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IggyJack
Oct 28, 09 1:45 PM CDT

Social media im not so sure about. People, to me, would rather have their news from a reliable source. Reply

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AClotfelter
Oct 28, 09 2:10 PM CDT

Unfortunately, I don't think most people care =o( They want the "hottest" news before it is confirmed... that is social media

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Fondue
Oct 28, 09 2:28 PM CDT

Social media is about being social through interfaces. Like right now, we are socializing through this medium. Check this SlideShare out sometime: http://www.slideshare.net/mzkagan/what-the-fk-is-social-media-one-year-later

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Observer
Oct 28, 09 5:24 PM CDT

Yea like Fox News and Rush Limbo are reliable sources. Iggy - better get with the program.

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Jayster999
Oct 28, 09 2:02 PM CDT

That's not a huge surprise. It would be nice if the Chinese bought their computers from us, but they are way smarter than us. Expect to see them making cheaper computers withing a year or two. Frankly, I'm surprised that haven't already taken over the PC biz. Reply

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Rob
Oct 28, 09 2:35 PM CDT

Chinese are "way smarter than us"? China is notorious for copyright infringement and industrial spying. They are cheaper than us because their workers are exploited and their manufacturing standards are lower.

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Doctor_Zaius
Oct 28, 09 3:24 PM CDT

Maybe their just way smarter than you Jay.

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Doctor_Zaius
Oct 28, 09 3:25 PM CDT

Their = They're... D'oh!

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Jayster999
Oct 28, 09 3:54 PM CDT

Okay, let me clarify. The Chinese are ruthlessly pragmatic and apply common sense--something that we rarely do. There's no question that we have been the greatest inventors and innovators the world has known, but our ideas are invariably stolen, enhanced and mass-marketed cheaper than we can produce them. This is where China comes in. China preys upon the weakness and gullibility of others, chiefly the United States. We're like the wealthy nerd kid at school who brings money and cool stuff to class in hopes of buying friends. In the end, after we're cleaned out, we still have no real friends. Our foreign aid, our open borders, our unwillingness to protect our markets are indicative of less than common common sense.

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foodchain11
Oct 28, 09 3:59 PM CDT

Ahem---IBM sold its computer mfg to China: Lenova. IBM didn't want to make them any more. They prefer non asset based consulting.

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Wraith
Oct 28, 09 4:04 PM CDT

Read Foodchains post Jay, Like Doc said... they are smarter than you but then again so is bread mold

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Jayster999
Oct 28, 09 4:13 PM CDT

Wraith: Well, I'm smarter than you, fucktard, so where does that leave you?

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Jayster999
Oct 28, 09 4:14 PM CDT

If we don't wise up, China is going to own us. Oh, yeah, their newest move is buying up American properties, not that you ignorant fuckwits would notice or care.

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Jayster999
Oct 28, 09 4:17 PM CDT

Doc: Read my retort to Wrath, as it applies to you too.

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Observer
Oct 28, 09 5:36 PM CDT

You are a cretin. China has some smart people out of their 1.4 billion society. So what? They also have 800 million people living on 2 dollars a day in government housing, doing mandated government jobs, having one child by law and are ruled by corrupt Oligarchs and Generals. It is a fucked up disaster waiting to happen. They just happen to be on a 10 year hot streak because their elites could market their submissive slaves at 25 cents an hour. Go read something intellectual like Foreign Affairs not Seventeen Magazine. And oh,yea, blow me.

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Jayster999
Oct 28, 09 5:47 PM CDT

Nobserver: Foreign affairs is the publication of the Council of Foreign Relations, the American wing of the global oligarchy. Fuck you AND your new world order, scum. China is killing us financially, and if you are stupid enough not to see it, then you're sorely diluted. Go choke on a dick, faggot.

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Observer
Oct 28, 09 5:29 PM CDT

Jayster - shit for brains - China will not own us. They will collapse in a couple of decades from their massive hungry population, lack of resources and extreme divisions of wealth. They are not a unified whole. They are a corrupt military dictatorship that will not stand forever. Go play with yourself in a gay fantasy bath house. Reply

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Jayster999
Oct 28, 09 5:42 PM CDT

LOL. Blow ME, stupid homo.

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JoeQ
Oct 28, 09 7:24 PM CDT

Dzemma nemma wo bu jrdau. Reply

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Derni
Oct 28, 09 8:14 PM CDT

just a heads up-The Chinese are all earning English-and for good reason-so I don't think we have to run out and learn it-they want to make economic inroads with us using English-they will be bilingual-and Americans-well more of the same-one language people Reply

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tbooker
Oct 28, 09 11:00 PM CDT

I knew there was a reason I never liked those Charlie Chan movies. Reply

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Acoma
Oct 29, 09 12:09 PM CDT

Jayster, for once I agree with your social commentary. Mostly you're totally off, but this time you've got an accurate insight into the global commodity chain business between "the first and third world" that could be archetyped by the USA and China Reply

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