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Wall Street Journal
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Mar 25, 09 6:05 AM CDT
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Facebook is giving its redesign a redesign in response to a chorus of user complaints, the Wall Street Journal reports. Users griped that the Twitter-like real-time feed featured in the new format was crowding out the information they really wanted to see. A company blog acknowledged the negative feedback and promised an update to address the issue within weeks.
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Daily Telegraph (UK)
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Mar 24, 09 9:59 AM CDT
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Blame Twitter for Jennifer Aniston and John Mayer's most recent breakup. The actress dumped her on-again-off-again beau over his obsession with the site, the Telegraph reports. “Jen was fuming. There he was, telling her he didn’t have time for her and yet his page was filled with Twitter updates," a friend told Star . "She was like 'He has time for all this Twittering, but he can't send me a text, an email, make a call?'"
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Gawker
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Mar 23, 09 7:23 AM CDT
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The celebrity oversharing on Twitter has reached a new level. Ashton Kutcher, infamous for his Twitter proclivities, posted a picture of his wife’s bikini-clad butt as she was bending over, Gawker reports. “Shh, don’t tell wifey,” he Tweeted, but Demi Moore (no stranger to Twitter herself) was quick to reply—and made it clear that while she didn’t particularly care, her "sneak" of a husband was snapping pics "while I was steaming his suit too!"
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CNET
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Mar 21, 09 2:09 PM CDT
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Bargain hunters helped Craigslist beat MySpace as the Web’s most popular search term last week, CNET reports. Searches for the classifieds site soared 105%, giving the San Francisco-based company its first ever most-searched-for crown. Business has been booming—bartering is up 100% and roommate ads 65%—but searches for Facebook, which jumped 415%, threaten Craiglist’s reign, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Mar 18, 09 4:31 PM CDT
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Charlie Villanueva’s zeal for micro-blogging has him in trouble with the Milwaukee Bucks, who deemed the forward’s half-time locker room tweet during Sunday’s Buck-Celtics game to be unsportsmanlike conduct, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. “We made a point to address Charlie and the team that it’s nothing we ever want to happen again,” said coach Scott Skiles.
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Slate
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Mar 18, 09 4:13 PM CDT
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The best way to get back into the workforce is both time-tested and cutting-edge: networking. Facebook, LinkedIn, and even Twitter are taking the place of the old-fashioned phone call, Farhad Manjoo writes for Slate: "The most forward-looking job seekers have all but abandoned job-listing sites in favor of social networks." A 2009 survey found 27% of new hires came through referrals, and just 12% from listings.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Mar 18, 09 12:56 PM CDT
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The latest changes to Facebook are barely a week old and are already prompting the ire of users, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Updates from friends now appear on the homepage in a real-time, Twitter-esque feed, which users complain crowds out more important messages, like friend requests. A user group, "One million against the new Facebook look," already has 254,512 members.
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New York Times
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Mar 18, 09 6:04 AM CDT
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When a juror admitted last week that he had done online research during a major Florida drugs case, the judge thought he could dismiss the juror and continue. But he had to declare a mistrial when he questioned the jury—and found eight other jurors had been doing the same thing. As the New York Times reports, iPhone and BlackBerry-wielding jurors across the country are wrecking centuries-old rules of jurisprudence, and nobody knows what to do about it.
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E! Online
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Mar 16, 09 10:10 AM CDT
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It might seem like every celeb is Twittering these days, but not so. “I don't need to invite stalkers into my life. I just don't really see the point,” Rashida Jones tells E!, while Jason Segel adds, “If I didn't talk to you in high school, I don't need to talk to you now.” More gossip: Britney Spears’ dad forces her to read the Bible for one hour each day, the Mirror reports.
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New York Times
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Mar 15, 09 4:40 AM CDT
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William Faulkner would love Facebook, where the past lives on amid its photo- and friend-filled pages. Adult appreciate the nostalgia trip to reconnect with old friends—but what about young people growing up with Facebook? Can they shed their pasts and reinvent themselves while old friends follow their every move? Probably not, warns Peggy Orenstein in the New York Times.
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Washington Post
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Mar 14, 09 12:28 PM CDT
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Around the world, websites that enable users to trade goods and services for the same are thriving in the down economy, the Washington Post reports. Craigslist, for instance, says bartering on the site has doubled in the past year. One Washington man got a plumber in exchange for a ride on his boat. "It's hot right now," said the head of one bartering association in Virginia.
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Morning News (Springdale, Ark.)
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Mar 13, 09 4:50 PM CDT
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A defendant found liable for $12.6 million in an Arkansas civil matter asked for a new trial because one juror Tweeted about the case from the courtroom, the Springdale Morning News reports. “Juror Jonathan’s” Twitter entries included “Oh and nobody buy Stoam,” the foam/steel hybrid the defendant sold; and “So Jonathan, what did you do today? Oh nothing really, I just gave away $12 MILLION of somebody else’s money.”
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ABC News
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Mar 13, 09 11:55 AM CDT
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ABC’s George Stephanopoulos is taking the next step with Twitter, he writes in his blog, landing Sen. John McCain for a 140-characters-at-a-time “Twitterview” on Tuesday. Stephanopoulos is also encouraging readers to send him questions for the Republican via the microblogging format that’s recently become all the rage in Washington; the interview is scheduled for noon Eastern.
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CNET
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Mar 12, 09 1:22 PM CDT
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To mark its first anniversary, Hulu is launching friends lists, most popular rankings, and more content—including show archives and classic cartoons and movies, CNET reports. But staying innovative isn't easy for a new media outlet with old media bosses. The website, which is owned by NBC and News Corp., was recently pressured into blocking Boxee, a venture that displayed Hulu and other web videos on set-top boxes.
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Wall Street Journal
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Mar 10, 09 1:30 PM CDT
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As layoffs soar, job seekers are turning to blogs to connect with others in the same boat and share their adventures in unemployment, the Wall Street Journal reports. For many professionals, blogging helps make sense of the sudden changes a layoff brings. "It's difficult to see your own progress, and that alone can discourage you," said Sawa Horibe, who started tryoutforlife.blogspot.com to organize her thoughts.
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Adweek
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Mar 10, 09 5:47 AM CDT
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Social networking has become more popular than email—but that popularity hasn't translated into profitability, a new Nielsen study finds. Social networking "member communities" such as Facebook are now the most popular Internet activity, according to Nielsen's figures, attracting 67% of global Internet users and still growing fast. Email trails at 65%, Adweek reports.
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Weekly Standard
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Mar 9, 09 6:58 PM CDT
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Facebook is a soul-sucking enterprise that can steal away your dependable wife and connect you with people you'd rather avoid—or happily forget, Matt Labash writes in the Weekly Standard . Users of the “stultifying” and “mind-numbing” site have “a reality-show star's unquenchable thirst for broadcasting all the details of their lives, no matter how unexceptional.”
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Los Angeles Times
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Mar 9, 09 11:40 AM CDT
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In the professional world, it’s all about who you sort of know, especially when times are hard, Gregory Rodriguez writes in the Los Angeles Times . Job losses may make people withdraw from their friends, but during a recession, acquaintances are the ones who count, often helping pave the way to a paycheck. Just look at LinkedIn and Facebook, which have surged while the economy tanks.
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Wall Street Journal
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Mar 9, 09 6:19 AM CDT
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Without understanding Twitter's purpose, the social networking rage—which has gained 1.2 million viewers from last year—can feel "like a noisy bar where everyone is shouting and nobody is listening," Julia Angwin warns in the Wall Street Journal . "It's about promoting yourself." That's why general musings fall flat, while provoking opinions earn the honor of being quoted repeatedly, or "retweeted."
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VentureBeat
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Mar 8, 09 7:48 AM CDT
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Facebook founder and tech wiz Mark Zuckerberg has been secretly keeping an account on rival Twitter, VentureBeat reports. Zuckerberg has had a private site on Twitter at @zuck since last May, but recently opened a Twitter account at finkd that allows users to follow him publicly. Maybe Zuckerberg has taken to heart an observation by Twitter's CEO that "living a bit more publicly can have powerful positive effects."
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