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Send an Amazon gift card to someone's Facebook wall because you love sadness

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John Moe
Nov 2, 2010
Now you can buy someone a gift card that isn't really a card, just a credit at Amazon, really, and have it sent straight to their Facebook. It...
Posted In: Amazon, business, Entertainment, Facebook, sadness, social media, Web Culture
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Microsoft allows Gmail in Hotmail

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John Moe
Nov 2, 2010
Which is weird. So now if you're on Hotmail, you can import the contents of your Gmail account or your Yahoo account into your Hotmail interface....
Posted In: business, Google, hotmail. gmail, Microsoft, social media, Web Culture, Yahoo
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Boing Boing hacked

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John Moe
Oct 28, 2010
Malicious hackers tend to leave the widely read quasi-tech website BoingBoing.net alone. It has kind of a cheeky approach and has never been anti...
Posted In: boing boing, social media, Web Culture
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Sheep on fire

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John Moe
Oct 27, 2010
Sounds like the worst Kings of Leon song ever, right? But Firesheep is a big threat to your privacy, not your musical taste. We talked about it on...
Posted In: firesheep, privacy, security, social media
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Most NBA players, it seems, are now on Twitter

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John Moe
Oct 25, 2010
The New York Times says that 11 out of 14 Knicks players are on Twitter, a number matched by two other teams. Two additional teams have ten players...
Posted In: games, NBA, social media
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Here's a new word that will freak you out: Firesheep

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John Moe
Oct 25, 2010
It's a Firefox extension that lets you easily eavesdrop on people. It reads/steals cookies from users on unsecure connections and masquerades as...
Posted In: firesheep, gadgets, privacy, social media
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Checking in from Space

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Steve Henn
Oct 22, 2010
Commander Douglas Wheelock became the first person to use a location-based service in space. Wheelock checked in on Foursquare, from the...
Posted In: social media, space
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Is Smart Twitter an Oxymoron?

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Steve Henn
Oct 21, 2010
Smart Twitter posts your tweets on Facebook while allowing you to screen out # hashtags, @blahblah and other elements of twitter-speak. The app...
Posted In: social media
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Known and Unknown Tweets

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Steve Henn
Oct 20, 2010
Don Rumsfeld once said "I don't do quagmires," but he does do Twitter. Beginning this morning you too can follow the former defense secretary ...
Posted In: military, social media
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De-Facebook the web

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Larissa Anderson
Oct 20, 2010
9 hours ago, a Google engineer tweeted: "After more privacy bad news, I wrote a Chrome extension to stop Facebook from following you around the web...
Posted In: Facebook, privacy, social media

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