Twitter Places: to check-in or not to check-in?

A giant enters the landscape Twitter announced on its blog yesterday that it’s rolling out an optional location identification feature across 65 different countries to help provide context to tw.

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YouTube Turns Five: Changing TV & Creating Celebrities

TV networks hate it, audience-seeking creatives love it, and we all watch it: YouTube. Five years ago this past Monday, three former employees of early PayPal — Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jaw.

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Facebook Privacy: the Tell-All Generation Learning Discretion?

Privacy isn’t to be taken for granted in an increasingly ‘jacked in’ world, and many are taking cue. Last week’s security lapse that exposed personal Facebook chats was embarrassin.

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Considering Social Interaction: Even Techies Meet Face-to-Face

As virtual communications inch closer and closer toward simulating real-world everyday interactions, even techies, it seems, prefer meeting face-to-face. Gizmodo scooped a rare, public in-person meet.

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Internet Access as a Right: the FCC’s National Broadband Plan

Should internet access be a right? The Federal Communications Commission thinks it should be. Unveiled on March 16, 2010, the FCC’s National Broadband Plan outlines an ambitious vision to make b.

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