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 Facebook 
 Refuseniks 
 Still Sorta 
 Use It 

They object in principle but end up using it by proxy

Oct 15, 09 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Washington Post today profiles an increasingly rare breed: people in their 20s and 30s who don't use Facebook or other such sites. And though the “refuseniks” interviewed have different rationales—privacy, “morals and beliefs,” being “old-school in the personal touch way,” many share something... More »

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social networking • Internet • MySpace • Facebook • online privacy • communication • Twitter • Luddite

 Après Le Deluge: 
 French Battle 
 Anglo Terms 
 in Web Age 

Experts struggle to create equivalents for terms like 'cloud computing'

Oct 14, 09 4:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Defenders of the French language are fighting a rear-guard action against a flood of Anglo-Saxon computing terms. In a process that lags far behind advances in technology, experts are tasked with finding French equivalents for new computing technology. The terms must then be passed by a panel of linguists and... More »

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Internet • France • language • translation • terminology • foreign languages • computing • French

Web Inventor Admits //
in Addresses Is Pointless

Berners-Lee wishes he could backtrack on backslashes

Oct 14, 09 2:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ever wonder what the // in web addresses is there for? So does the man who put the forwardslashes there in the first place. "Really, if you think about it, it doesn’t need the //," Tim Berners-Lee told a New York Times reporter at a tech conference... More »

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Internet • web standards • Tim Berners-Lee

OPINION

Facebook, Twitter Will Kill Email ... Maybe

Social networking sites have their place, but
so does predecessor

Oct 12, 09 3:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Email’s had a good run, but its day is done, according to Jessica Vascellaro of the Wall Street Journal. Email is an outdated form of communication, better suited to a time when we logged online and off, she argues. Now that we’re always connected, Twitter and Facebook... More »

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social networking • Internet • email • Facebook • Twitter • e-mails

YouTube Reaches 'Well Over' 1B Views Per Day

Google subsidiary takes the opportunity to gloat

Oct 9, 09 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a move ripped right from the McDonald’s playbook, YouTube’s logo today comes with the tag “1 billion views per day!” That’s right, YouTube now gets “well over a billion views a day,” according to the site's official blog. Sure, execs are... More »

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Google • Internet • YouTube • online videos • web traffic

 Tell This Website 
 Where You've Had Sex 

Let the world know where you've made whoopee on IJustMadeLove.com

Oct 8, 09 7:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - A new website lets you share your carnal experiences with the world: IJustMadeLove.com uses a modified version of the Google Maps engine, on which users can mark an address where they just did the horizontal tango—or see where others have done it. The site asks for some details:... More »

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Internet • sex • love • Google Maps • website

 Viral Campaign Succeeds:
 Tracy Morgan Joins Twitter 

Site succeeds in signing up 30 Rock star

Oct 8, 09 5:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - A celebrity-sighting website has succeeded in its goal to get 30 Rock’s Tracy Morgan on Twitter. Morgan joined today after OMGICU launched a campaign to recruit its most-reported celebrity, notes the Wall Street Journal. It seems to be the real Morgan, at least going by the "verified account"... More »

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Internet • Tracy Morgan • celebrity • 30 Rock

OPINION

  Gone With Gourmet: 
 a Taste for Expertise 

There is no 'hard-won blood-on-the-floor kind' of editorial experience on the Web

Oct 8, 09 10:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Gourmet magazine absorbed his Cook’s in 1990, Christopher Kimball discovered the hard way that the publishing business is “a top-down, winner-take-all proposition, an oligarchy of sorts.” But the frazzling encounter also afforded him a meeting with Conde Nast chairman Si Newshouse, who “poured... More »

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Internet • blogging • cuisine • eating • Conde Nast • magazine publishing • Gourmet • Julia Child • Si Newhouse • S.I. Newhouse

  Web Game Nets Creator $1.5M 

Players pay for extra points to commit murder, mayhem

Oct 8, 09 2:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - An Internet crime game has earned its young creator nearly $1.5 miilion. Torn, a text-based game noir that lets players commit murder and mayhem, boasts some 41,000 active players and 1.3 million account holders worldwide. The game is free, but players can opt to pay $5 a... More »

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Internet • crime • murder • profits • web • virtual reality • Britain • programmers • profit margins

VIRAL VIDEO

'Screw' Those Soviet Hockey Players: Kid

Pint-sized coach
recites Kurt Russell's speech from Miracle

Oct 6, 09 10:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - What’s more inspiring than watching Kurt Russell speak the words of legendary hockey coach Herb Brooks to the 1980 men’s Olympic team before they played—and beat—the Russians in the film Miracle? Try the same words coming from a 5-year-old. Well, maybe it’s just cuter,... More »

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social networking • Internet • YouTube • film • Soviet Union • hockey • viral video • movies • Kurt Russell • Miracle on Ice • Herb Brooks • Miracle • 1980 Winter Olympics • Lake Placid

OPINION

Look Up Exes on Facebook
at Your Own Peril 

He's probably gay, she probably hates you, and it could ruin your relationship

Oct 6, 09 10:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Back in the halcyon pre-Facebook days, Elizabeth Bernstein writes, you didn't just pick up the phone and ring up an old flame. “If you went looking for a former partner, you knew you were looking for trouble.” So why it should be any different on Facebook? A survey... More »

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social networking • Internet • Facebook • relationship • etiquette • ex-boyfriends • ex-girlfriends • flame

Analysis

Comcast Weighs Charging Viewers for Hulu

Cable giant no fan of free site, and could soon own NBC's part of it

Oct 5, 09 3:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Comcast is no fan of Hulu's business model, and the cable giant could soon own a stake in the site—which means trouble for fans of using it to watch TV shows free. Comcast is in talks with NBC to pool their entertainment offerings in a joint venture that would... More »

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television • Internet • Comcast • NBC • NBC Universal • mergers and acquisitions • online videos • Hulu

Today's Hot Topic in Syrian Blogosphere: Masturbation

Regime doesn't seem to mind as long as it doesn't challenge authority

Oct 4, 09 1:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Syria’s authoritarian regime has been quick to lock up bloggers who tweak it even slightly, but it seems to have turned the other cheek as a flame war over masturbation has erupted. One blogger’s call for a crackdown on the evidently widespread “secret habit” elicited a push... More »

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Internet • Syria • blog • authoritarianism • Internet censorship • web censorship • masturbation

Google: We
Have 'Moral' Duty to Help Journalism

We're not a newspaper killer, says CEO

Oct 3, 09 5:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Google not only wants big news organizations such as the New York Times to survive, it has a "moral responsibility" to help them do so, says CEO Eric Schmidt. He tells Search Engine Land "there will always be a market for people who read the newspaper on a... More »

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technology • Google • Internet • Eric Schmidt • online newspapers • newspaper industry

ANALYSIS

Facebook Divorce Rule No. 1: Don't Overshare

Divorcee, beware. His lawyer might be reading those posts

Sep 29, 09 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Like many things, the etiquette for dealing with marital troubles on Facebook isn’t exactly covered in the Terms of Service. And like any other Facebook action, Amanda Fortini writes, users would do well to think before they type. When a recently separated woman posted a status update reading “... More »

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social networking • Internet • divorce • Web 2.0 • marriage • Facebook • lawyer • defriending • marital woes

 Google Earth, Al Gore 
 Detail Climate Change  

Al Gore narrates intro to new feature detailing perils, and solutions

Sep 25, 09 10:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Google—with the help of Al Gore—has introduced new “layers” to its Earth application that detail the possible effects of climate change in the next century. The Nobel laureate narrates an intro to a series of virtual tours that highlight terrifying scenarios and solutions. The upgrade allows users... More »

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climate change • Google • Internet • Al Gore • Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change • Google Earth • green energy • search engine • renewable energy • Nobel Prize • Nobel Peace Prize • carbon emissions

 Buyers Scammed 
 for Millions in 
 Record EBay 
 Ripoff 

Customers paid big bucks for counterfeit products

Sep 23, 09 3:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Consumers around the world were bilked out of millions of dollars for counterfeit golf clubs in the biggest-ever eBay scam, reports the Times of London. The clubs, as well as clothing, accessories and passes for an airline lounge, were auctioned online from 2004-2008 by a criminal network involving crooks from... More »

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China • Internet • eBay • Europe • Hong Kong • counterfeit • scam • counterfeiters • Augusta National Golf Club • criminal network

 How to Get 
 Yourself 
 Retweeted 

Data analysis tells you words to use and when to build your brand

Sep 22, 09 3:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - You might think all you need to do to get your 140-character gems rebroadcast on Twitter is make them, well, good. Wrong. Fast Company looks at some data-proven tips from Hubspot's Dan Zarrella:
  • Links work—If they're the right links: Retweets (or RTs) are three times more likely to
... More »

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social networking • Internet • Web 2.0 • blog • Twitter • tweet • follower • retweet

10 Webapps Worth
Tweeting About

Create chatrooms and manage voicemail with these lesser-known programs 

Sep 19, 09 5:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Not all webapps are blessed with Twitter’s marketing push and word-of-mouth, so Lifehacker profiles a few worth tweeting about:
  • TinyChat: Connect with up to 12 people using live video in a chatroom. The rooms aren’t password-protected for non-paying chatters, but did we mention it’s all for
... More »

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Internet • iPhone • smartphones • voicemail • customer service • Web apps • Twitter

OPINION

'Paris Hilton' Palin Perfect
Politician for Internet Age

Resignation was genius move, writes Greg Beato

Sep 18, 09 4:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Politics is due for a shake-up of the kind the Internet gave to music and newspapers—and Sarah Palin looks like the only politician ready to deliver, Greg Beato writes in Reason. Palin's resignation makes her a true maverick, Beato writes. Just like Paris Hilton realized you don't need to... More »

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Internet • YouTube • Alaska • politics • resignation • governor • Sarah Palin

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