Posts Tagged ‘ friends ’

Review: Scrutinizing your presence on Facebook (AP)

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Review: Scrutinizing your presence on Facebook (AP)

AP - Here's one way to sum up 2011: I added 71 people as Facebook friends, shared 26 links and commented on 98 of my friends' status updates. I was tagged in 33 photos and added 18 of my own to the site.

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Remembering Email

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Remembering Email

Somehow we keep thinking email will survive the social wave. It is the ultimate social tool, we reason. It’s an open standard, whatever that really means. It’s ubiquitous, you know, like Flash. Makes my head hurt to think about it going away. Nope, email is bigger than the Beatles. Yet the signs are...

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Bye Bye Netbooks: Dell Kills The Mini 10 As It Shifts Focus To “Thin And Powerful”

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Bye Bye Netbooks: Dell Kills The Mini 10 As It Shifts Focus To “Thin And Powerful”

Once upon a time netbooks ruled the land. But with the rise of tablets and miniaturization of traditional x86 CPUs, the mini notebooks are quietly dying. The latest victim is the Dell Mini. Liliputing discovered by way of MyDellMini.com that the products are no longer listed on Dell.com. They’re dead, my friends, and...

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Gowalla Versus Foursquare: Why Pretty Doesn’t Always Win

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Gowalla Versus Foursquare: Why Pretty Doesn’t Always Win

Gowalla , the geo-social app, will soon be no more. The founders will be joining Facebook and shutting down the product a couple months after trying to reposition the app as a social travel guide . It was clear long ago that its rival Foursquare won the check-in wars, passing one billion check-ins...

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LiveLead Lets You Share And Watch YouTube Videos With Your Facebook Friends In Real-Time

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LiveLead Lets You Share And Watch YouTube Videos With Your Facebook Friends In Real-Time

Watching videos on YouTube or browsing through photos on Facebook is inherently a social action that you may do with friends while in front of a computer or TV. Startup LiveLead , which is in private beta, allows you to remotely watch and chat about YouTube videos or photos remotely with your friends...

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