Troubled starlet defends lesbian gal pal, sends rumor mill into overdrive
New York Post Apr 22, 08 12:03 PM CDT
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Lindsay Lohan and DJ darling Samantha Ronson seem to be more than just friends. When Ashley Olsen greeted Ronson Friday night, a jealous Lohan screamed: "Get your 15-year-old "Full House" a** away from my girlfriend," a source told the New York Post .
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Companies figure out how to profit from widgets
BusinessWeek Apr 18, 08 10:32 AM CDT
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Facebook widgets have been wildly popular, but they haven’t always been wildly profitable. “The fascinating thing about widgets is it turns out that distribution isn't really the challenge,” says the CEO of VideoEgg, the developer behind Scrabulous and Flixster. "The question is how do you monetize that attention?” VideoEgg and companies like it think they have the answer, BusinessWeek reports: advertising.
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Owner alerts car lovers to theft of rare Nissan on forum
New York Times Apr 13, 08 6:30 AM CDT
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A car thief in Calgary didn't count on rising to internet fame when he stole a rare Nissan Skyline GTR from a dealer, the New York Times reports. The owner posted a picture of the vehicle on an internet car lovers' forum and before long, his fellow forum members had not only spotted the car, they had photographed the suspect, found his details on Facebook, and called the cops.
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To stop info leaks, social soldiers now must follow new rules
BBC Apr 11, 08 5:52 PM CDT
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Israel is taking steps to neutralize its newest security threat: Facebook. The army is tightening rules on what soldiers can and can't post on the social-networking site, the BBC reports. Apparently, some were putting up photos of themselves posing with top-secret weaponry. "Most of the soldiers don't understand how much damage it may cause," said one Air Force official.
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Startups look to combine social network feeds
MIT Technology Review Apr 9, 08 8:15 PM CDT
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Several new services join personal Internet feeds into a single space, meaning you don’t have to re-post the same new information to YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. The CEO of Seesmic, a video-conversation service, says it’s frustrating to pick through 10 different social networks—and his company has just bought Twhirl, which allows users to post on three different feeds at once, Technology Review reports.
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Lucas Caparelli talks about his ill-considered violent post
Washington Post Apr 9, 08 9:01 AM CDT
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For about 90 minutes, his Facebook status read: “Lucas Caparelli: recommends not going to class on Wednesday because he is going to blow up campus. ” In those 90 minutes, Caparelli went from a highly-recruited running back to a persona non grata suspended by Wake Forest. “It was a dumb, immature, ignorant joke, but to me, it was a joke,” Caparelli told the Washington Post .
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ConnectU had accused Zuckerberg of filching social network ideas
New York Times Apr 7, 08 2:01 PM CDT
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Pending lawsuits between Facebook and rival social networking site ConnectU will be settled, a source tells the New York Times . The founders of ConnectU accused Mark Zuckerberg of stealing their ideas back when both sites were in their infancy, and the Facebook CEO filed a countersuit against his former Harvard classmates. Terms of the settlement haven't been disclosed.
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SNIFF allows users to pinpoint cell phone locations
Times (UK) Apr 3, 08 12:02 PM CDT
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A Facebook application launching in the UK will put people’s friends on the map—in real time, reports the Times . The Social Network Integrated Friend Finder or ‘Sniff’ app lets users pinpoint a friend’s cell phone down to the nearest 650 feet. Privacy is a priority: users need to give permission before they can be tracked, and they can specify who can and can't zero in on them.
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Biographicon invites the real average Joes to tell their tales
Ars Technica Apr 2, 08 9:45 PM CDT
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While Wikipedia may promote itself as an encyclopedia of, for, and by the people, anybody who's had his stint as autobiographer cut short by the infamous "notability" requirement knows the site to be otherwise. Or so hope the creators of startup Biographicon, a website that invites the nobodies of the world to publish their life stories, writes Ars Technica.
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Engineering VP is the second senior exec to jump ship in two months
New York Times Apr 2, 08 11:56 AM CDT
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A top Google engineer has signed on to help guide EMI Music through a restructuring, in the wake of its acquisition by after private equity firm Terra Firma, reports the New York Times . Douglas Merrill, Google’s VP of engineering, will become president of digital at the world’s fourth-largest music company.
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Companies go 'topless' to boost employees' attention
Los Angeles Times Mar 31, 08 1:09 PM CDT
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Tired of competing for attention with iPhones, BlackBerrys and laptops, some Silicon Valley companies are banning them from meetings. One exec calls it going "topless," short for laptopless, and the Los Angeles Times reports that it's boosting some companies' efficiency. "Aside from just being rude," an exec wrote, "partial attention generally leads to partial results."
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New companies try to bring real-time socializing back to web
New York Times Mar 31, 08 11:11 AM CDT
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A group of Silicon Valley startups is looking to bring the "social" back into social-networking and other popular websites, the New York Times reports. Vivaty is developing 3-D virtual chat rooms users can embed in web pages—including social-networking profiles—and will begin Facebook testing this week. And Meebo’s 2-D chat rooms, launched last year, have proliferated fast.
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Adobe releases
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CNET Mar 27, 08 9:00 AM CDT
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Adobe’s Photoshop has long been the standard for high-end image editing, but for Joe Q. Digital Camera, it’s too imposing, too complicated, and much too expensive. Today, Adobe hopes to fix all that, rolling out Photoshop Express, its free, web-based photo editor. The flash-based editor gives point-and-clickers a quick, easy way to eliminate red eye, smooth over blemishes, and otherwise mess around, CNet reports.
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