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BBC
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May 21, 09 11:48 AM CDT
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Uploaded photos remain on social-networking sites long after users think they’ve deleted them, a study finds. Researchers put photos on 16 popular sites and then deleted them. A month later, the BBC reports, the photos were still accessible using their direct URLs on seven of those sites, including Facebook—which claims to delete them immediately. Photo-sharing sites like Flickr fared better.
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Reuters
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May 19, 09 8:06 PM CDT
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Mark Zuckerberg tells Reuters he does indeed intend to take Facebook public—just don't hold your breath waiting for it. The company is still "a few years out from that," said the 25-year-old co-founder. He said Facebook has plenty of capital, though he didn't deny that company execs have been talking with various investors about funding.
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TechCrunch
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May 19, 09 6:50 AM CDT
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He calls it the "highest blog in the world": Gavin Bate, an Irish mountain climber, has been scaling Mount Everest for the past month, sending 140-character updates on his progress via Twitter. Today he's expected to reach the summit, where he'll try to post several sponsored tweets to raise money for a development charity, TechCrunch reports.
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Associated Press
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May 18, 09 6:44 PM CDT
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A federal judge in Los Angeles has delayed the sentencing of a Missouri woman for her role in the MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor who ended up committing suicide. US District Judge George Wu today rescheduled Lori Drew's sentencing for July 2. The judge says he wants to review testimony from prosecution witnesses. He did not rule on a motion to dismiss Drew's misdemeanor convictions for improperly accessing computers.
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Washington Post
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May 17, 09 12:01 PM CDT
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The creator of the online message board Peoplesdirt.com says he's just providing an "avenue for people to express their feelings," but parents and teachers disagree. The website allows teenagers to anonymously post slurs and false rumors about fellow students. Although it's legal, it's also hateful and humiliating, students and parents tell the Washington Post .
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Guardian (UK)
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May 16, 09 1:23 PM CDT
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Guatemalan authorities have arrested an IT worker who urged others on Twitter to withdraw their money from a state-run bank at the center of a murder controversy, the Guardian reports. “First concrete action should be (to) remove cash from Banrural and bankrupt the bank of the corrupt,” read the offending Tweet. The man is being held on $6,500 bail on charges of "inciting financial panic."
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Mashable
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May 16, 09 4:06 AM CDT
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Online shoppers have discovered "a world beyond Amazon," Ben Parr writes on Mashable. Now they can swap advice, start up shops, and even get to know designers on sites like: Pikaba . Post requests for purchases ("I need to buy a new laptop for $500"), receive merchant offers, and trade suggestions via Facebook and Twitter.
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Advertising Age
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May 15, 09 12:54 PM CDT
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Move over, Ashton Kutcher. Oprah crossed the million-followers threshold on Twitter yesterday. What does this mean for microblogging and life as we know it? Simon Dumenco of Advertising Age , who worked with Oprah to launch O Magazine , has some thoughts: Oprah is bigger than God. @God barely has any followers. Also, Twitter has been willing to shut down Oprah’s impersonators, but not God’s.
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People
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May 15, 09 9:55 AM CDT
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Former Girl Next Door Holly Madison is going from Playboy to Peepshow —she will replace Kelly Monaco in the Las Vegas topless revue, though she is not expected to bare all. “I've always wanted to be in a really classy, sexy burlesque show,” Madison tells People . Elsewhere: 300 star Gerard Butler was charged with battery for allegedly scuffling with a paparazzo Oct. 7, the AP reports.
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Reuters
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May 15, 09 8:49 AM CDT
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Hackers went Facebook-phishing yesterday, nabbing the passwords of an undisclosed number of users, Reuters reports. Facebook is working to restore the site and has blocked accounts hit in what it believes was a ploy to spread future spam. Hackers broke into accounts, sending users’ friends emails that contained links to fake sites resembling the Facebook homepage; these sites asked visitors to log in, thereby giving up their passwords.
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Wired
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May 14, 09 1:02 PM CDT
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With all the normal people suddenly overrunning Twitter, “we have to stick together, and keep the geek community thriving,” writes GeekDad Ken Denmead for Wired . He’s compiled a list of 100 geeks worth following. Here are a few: Wil Wheaton (wilw): Blogger, writer, and, oh yeah, Wesley Crusher. Al Yankovic (alyankovic): The king of geek music. Adam Savage (dontrythis): Co-host of Mythbusters .
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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May 14, 09 12:15 PM CDT
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Ashton Kutcher came through on his promise to punk CNN and founder Ted Turner last night after beating the network in the race to 1 million Twitter followers, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The actor had promised to “ding-dong-ditch” Turner, and the execution went something like this: Assemble fans, a truckload of Ding Dong snack cakes, and a big bell outside Turner’s home. Ring bell. But wait, there’s more.
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TechCrunch
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May 13, 09 1:35 PM CDT
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Real-time search is all the rage these days. But which engine is best, and how does the flavor of the month stack up against plain ol’ Google? MG Siegler of TechCrunch set out to find out, searching a batch of engines for a recent occurrence: the damage the space shuttle suffered on its way into orbit. He typed “Space Shuttle” into each engine, figuring it was what most people would likely type. Here’s what he found:
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Gawker
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May 13, 09 10:28 AM CDT
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Kanye West’s blog is real—and not ghostwritten at all!—but he would never stoop to the level of joining Twitter, Gawker reports. The rapper vented his frustration at “losers making fake Kanye West Twitter accounts” on his blog yesterday in an all-caps rant (his usual style) about how he’s “too busy actually being creative” or “laying on a beach” to use the social networking site.
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Los Angeles Times
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May 11, 09 9:37 AM CDT
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The man who chose text-messaging’s magic number—160 characters—did so in a decidedly low-tech way, the Los Angeles Times reports. In 1985, German Friedhelm Hillebrand typed message after random message into his typewriter, and found that 160 was “perfectly sufficient,” he said. And now sufficiency is king: Americans sent more texts last year than they made cell phone calls.
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Daily Mail (UK)
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May 11, 09 7:21 AM CDT
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Paris Hilton and boyfriend Doug Reinhardt had a blast on their recent Caribbean vacation. How do we know? She Twittered the entire time, letting her followers know when they were "Having a beautiful lunch on the beach" and "Playing some golf together." Hilton also posted photos of the happy couple smooching for the camera, the Daily Mail reports.
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New York Post
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May 11, 09 7:08 AM CDT
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Tim Russert's son, Luke, landed a sweet gig covering youth issues at NBC News after his dad died last summer. Just one problem: No one's seen him since March, the New York Po st reports. "It's like, 'Well, that's what you get for nepotism,' " says one NBC insider. Russert, 23, was visible during the presidential campaign, but his last blog post came in December, and he hasn't Twittered or been on the air since March 31.
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Seldo.com
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May 6, 09 3:50 PM CDT
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The whole country may be having a love affair with Twitter, but a great many people are missing the point, argues blog Seldo.com. Among the things Twitter isn't: A replacement for email. "Idiot" Maureen Dowd's New York Times column was "entirely missing the point." A forum for self-obsessed hipsters (or is it?). Sure, people use it this way, but just because they're on Twitter doesn't mean that's all it's good for.
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New York Post
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May 6, 09 10:57 AM CDT
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When his pregnant girlfriend confronted him about rumors he’d been cheating, Carl Lawson became enraged. He confronted the woman he believed was behind the rumors and, police tell the New York Post, strangled her to death with her own hair dryer cord. “We got into a scuffle and I choked her,” he said in a signed confession. “I didn’t mean for that to happen.”
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CNET
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May 5, 09 1:38 PM CDT
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Jimmy Fallon, Trent Reznor, and Twitter have all been honored with a 2008 Webby Award, CNET reports. Fallon, described by the awards committee as “one of the most ardent online evangelists,” was named the Webby’s “Person of the Year” for incorporating Twitter feeds, blogging, and online video into Late Night .
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