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Twitter turns 5
John Moe Mar 21, 2011
On this day in 2006, Jack Dorsey wrote "just setting up my twttr". That was the first tweet ever in what has become a huge global communications...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Japan continues to regain control of reactor, Banks return 99% of TARP
Katharine Crnko Mar 17, 2011
Here are today's headlines from Marketplace Morning Report and around the web....
Facebook and "the right to be forgotten"
John Moe Mar 17, 2011
A new law being sought by the European Union would demand that websites permanently delete all data held about a user if that user requests that...
LA Times switches to Facebook comments
John Moe Mar 16, 2011
The paper is just the latest major web presence to abandon its own commenting system in favor of just importing commenting functionality from Face...
Facebook is showing baseball games
John Moe Mar 16, 2011
Yeah, sure, because why not? They already have social media, Batman movies, geolocation, games, email, and other stuff. Baseball? Sure, hell, sla...
Google social network to launch in May, I guess
John Moe Mar 14, 2011
There was a flurry of rumors over the weekend that Google would launch a social networking service called Google Circles at SxSW. The company...
Tomorrow is iPad 2 day
John Moe Mar 10, 2011
The tablet arrives in stores tomorrow and it's getting some great reviews with a few caveats. Josh Topolsky at Engadget praises the physical object...
Facebook builds mechanism to respond to suicide threats
John Moe Mar 9, 2011
Facebook has built a page for reporting suicidal content that people see on the site. It's a form where you fill in the url where you spotted it,...
Facebook shuts down account of Chinese blogger
John Moe Mar 9, 2011
The reason? A fake name. The blogger/commentator is knows as Michael Anti. While it's not the name on his national identity card, Michael has used...
Global Network Initiative is withering on the vine
John Moe Mar 7, 2011
Three years ago, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft signed on to a code of conduct designed to protect free speech and protect privacy online. The Global...
