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Facebook's Bold, Compelling and Scary Engine of Discovery: The Inside Story of Graph Search
With the social networking giant's newest feature, friends can type in any query and get real useful information–that Google can't touch.
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The 'Atlantic,' the Church of Scientology, and the Perils of Native Advertising
In posting paid, since-suspended, "sponsored content" from the Church of Scientology, the <em>Atlantic</em> magazine infuriated journalists and readers
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New Myspace rolls out to the public, with help from Justin Timberlake & Jay-Z
Formerly huge social network Myspace has opened up a completely revamped version of its site to the public today.
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Graph Search Ads Could Be A Goldmine For Facebook
Where there's discovery, there's opportunity for sponsored discovery. Though there's no ads in Facebook's new Graph Search engine yet, eventually Facebook could let advertisers pay to show their results above organic ones like on Google.
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4 Reasons the Internet Has Made Everyone an Entitled Dick
Why is it that you and I and everyone else on the Internet are so convinced the world owes us everything, quickly, of the highest quality, and free? How did we get to be such self-entitled little bastards?
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North Korea follows American on Twitter
The North Korean regime has its own Twitter account, but follows only three users -- and one of them belongs to a 25-year-old from Texas. CBS News' Terrell Brown reports.
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This guy got 1 million likes on FB, which means he's about to get laid
It only took 18 hours and 1 million likes, but in that time, Norway's Petter Kverneng went from hopeless to hopeful to downright ecstatic.
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On Facebook, users can no longer hide from search results
All profiles must contribute to the greater good of socially-fueled search.
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Why Being Young Doesn't Make You a Social Media Expert
Your kids were born and raised with technology -- but does that make them exempt from a lesson on digital etiquette?
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Kim Dotcom’s Mega Opens For Early-Access Users
Leading up to the launch of Kim Dotcom's latest effort, Mega, today the company opened the site up to its first early-access users. It's also published pricing for premium users, as well as a roadmap of features that it plans to add to the site after launch, having run out of time to imp...
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Mega-Launch: a fake FBI raid, dancing girls—oh, and human rights!
Kim Dotcom launches his super-private cloud storage with a wild display.
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Map of 500M Foursquare checkins demonstrates how they built a “Google PageRank for the real world”
Foursquare has produced a map of the last 500M check-ins on its service, gathered over the last three months.
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Facebook is impersonating people without their consent
Any post made by Facebook on your behalf is completely invisible to you, and only shows up in your friends’ & family’s news feed.
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How Facebook Graph Search will ignite a search revolution
Facebook's Graph Search is the future of search, but its rivals aren't standing by. Google and Bing are also serving up hyper-personalized answers tailored to you and your social universe. Some of it is helpful, and some of it may just be creepy.
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Yahoo e-mailing former employees trying to get them back
This is the official Yahoo "employee welcome" kit. Except the employee in question, founder Tom Coates, doesn't work at Yahoo.
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Apple pulled 500px iOS apps due to complaints of possible child porn
Late last night, Apple sent a notice to 500px, letting it know that it was too easy to find objectionable nude content via the search function of its iOS apps, including the recently acquired ISO500 app.
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We're Entering The Worst Period In Modern Search History
Google is becoming less useful, and Facebook search isn't ready yet. Welcome to the search desert.
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Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution
Something strange and remarkable started happening at Google immediately after Larry Page took full control as CEO in 2011: it started designing good-looking apps.
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The social network where we're all just a number
Do you ever wish you were just a number on a social network, and didn’t have to reveal your true identity to the people you chat with online? Meet Social Number, where all your social interactions can take place among numbers.
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Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too
Following in the footsteps of its parent company Facebook, Instagram has begun locking some users out of their accounts and asking them for government issued ID to restore access. Facebook tells TPM that the measure is done for suspected violations of terms.