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The real reason Pinterest bought Punchfork
Many observers have suggested that Pinterest bought the recipe site for its content. Not so, says Eric Fader of Ignited, who argues that the secret sauce is Punchfork’s technology and what it will allow Pinterest to do.
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OkCupid's Latest Venture Draws The Ire Of Privacy Advocates
Of all the romances sparked by online dating site OkCupid, the one that's lasted the longest is between its founders and the endless data provided by the over one million users that use the site each day.
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10 Craziest Craigslist Missed Connections of 2012
Ah, February — love is in the air, and plenty of us out there are looking for soulmates. And while some of us find our true loves the old-fashioned way — through mutual friends, group gatherings or online dating — others become instantly smitten with that person in the platypus costume at the bar, but are too chicken to say so.
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Facebook’s Never Had A Big User Data Breach, But May Never Recover When It Does
It's not if, but when. Between crooks, hackers, and foreign governments, Facebook probably can't avoid a serious user data breach forever. When it happens, Facebook may never be able to quiet fears that "personal data isn't safe there".
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The Man Who Fell to Earth
After decades as one of the most admired athletes on the planet and one of the toughest competitors ever to ride a bike, Lance Armstrong is facing a new challenge: how to come back from a very public disgrace.
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Burger King Twitter Hack Is Deliciously Hilarious
Someone appears to have been telling some serious whoppers on Burger King's Twitter account.
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Gearbox 'Looking Into' Explanation Of Why Aliens Was So Different To Demo
Randy Pitchford 'only wants positive feelings' on his personal Twitter account.
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The happiest and saddest states according to Twitter
Hawaii was found to be the United States' happiest state in a recent study of geotagged tweets. The saddest? Louisiana.
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The Most Terrifying Button On Facebook
Buried deep in your profile is a button that shows all your activity, including who you search for. Facebook knows your deepest secrets — and it's not letting you forget it.
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How Google Controls the News
Google is one of the most important "publishers" in the world, and the company's lucrative algorithm reveals a picture of the future of profitable content.
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Pinterest valued at $2.5 billion
The digital pinboard site raised $200 million in a new round of funding.
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Creepy Side of Search Emerges on Facebook
Facebook highlighted special privacy restrictions on its new Graph Search social discovery engine that filter young teens from some search results delivered to adults. The restrictions, pointed to after concerns about pedophiles, differ from other aspects of Graph Search, which generally has no special privacy controls beyond those already in place for the rest of Facebook.
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Wikipedia to deliver articles via text messages in coming months
Wikipedia has been working on new ways to bring its 25 million articles to more users in developing markets, where smartphones and internet connectivity are still sporadic.
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How Vidl Video “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” Ruled The Internet
Four Canadian film students were assigned a project: Create a YouTube hoax video that gets 100,000 views. They got nearly 42 million instead. Here’s the definitive behind-the-meme.
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Zynga shuts Baltimore studio and consolidates three other locations
Closures are part of Zynga's strategy to contain costs using "guard rails."
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4chan votes for Hitler as the smartest person in history
4chan's latest play at rigging an online poll has a genocidal dictatator topping the list of history's smartest figures.
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Is Twitter actually worth $10 billion? We have our doubts
Twitter's latest private market valuation of $9 billion, as pegged by a large investment from the BlackRock Group, turned heads. Is the valuation fair?
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Overwhelmed and Creeped Out: Inventing a Dating App That Women Will Actually Use
So what do women want? If you look at the precious few dating sites and apps with female founders, a pattern emerges: women want authenticity, privacy, a more controlled environment, and a quick path to a safe, easy offline meeting.
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Groupon Fires CEO Andrew Mason
Twenty-four hours after reporting disappointing first-quarter earnings (a move that sent its stock down more than 25% in after-hours), Groupon announced Thursday afternoon that co-founder and CEO Andrew Mason will no longer hold the top post at the company.
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An Autopsy of a Dead Social Network
Following the collapse of the social network Friendster, computer scientists have carried out a digital autopsy to find out what went wrong.