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Sex, lies, and subtweets: Ohio high school tormented by Twitter gossip

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As reported on The Verge. By Casey Newton An anonymous account bullies teens, foils administrators School’s out for summer in Hudson, Ohio, but students haven’t left campus behind completely. They couldn’t if they tried: an unsettling source of gossip has agitated the student body, broadcasting classmates’ confessions about their crushes, enemies, and sexual escapades. It’s anonymous, unregulated, and occasionally veers into bullying. And it’s all happening on Twitter, powered by a controversial Q&A service calledAsk.fm. At…

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LinkedIn Gets A Little More Watchful, Now Tells You Who’s Viewed Your Updates, And Where You’ve Been Looking

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As reported on TechCrunch. by INGRID LUNDEN LinkedIn, the social network used by people for job hunting and making other business connections, is adding two more enhancements to its homepage that highlight one of its more unnerving, but occasionally useful, elements: how it tracks what people visit on the site and then reports on that activity. From today, it will start showing users who has viewed not just their overall profiles, but also their updates on…

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With New Study And Marketing Campaign, Microsoft Puts Renewed Emphasis On Its Social Tools For The Enterprise

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As reported on TechCrunch. by FREDERIC LARDINOIS Microsoft’s SharePoint always featured a core set of social tools, but with the acquisition of Yammer, as well as the ongoing integration ofLync and Skype, the folks over in Redmond are clearly ready to push social as the next major cornerstone of their enterprise offerings. Today, Microsoft is launching a new campaign to help companies understand how social canhelp them become more productive. In connection to this, the company also commissioned a new study that tried…

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Facebook on building for Google Glass: it’s another way to ‘plug into the world’

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As reported on The Verge. By Ellis Hamburger The social network offers first details on what it was like to build for Glass Google today launched several new services for Glass — dubbed “Glassware” — including a Facebook app that lets you post photos to your timeline. Facebook’s efforts were led by Mobile Product Manager Erick Tseng, a former Product Manager on Android, after an early conversation with some old colleagues at Google. “They’ve done a great job creating, even…

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Facebook rumored to be buying GPS app Waze for up to $1 billion

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As reported on Engadget. By Daniel Cooper Between buying Instagram and calling Facebook Home the “next version” of his social network, it’s fairly clear Mark Zuckerberg’s obsessed with the prime real estate on your smartphone. Israeli newspaper Calcalist is reporting that Zuckerberg and Co. are eyeing up crowdsourced GPS app Waze, which generates mapping data by pulling it from its users’ devices in real time. The paper says that Facebook entered into discussions around six months ago, with prices in the $800 million to…

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Facebook Home And The Promise Of Android

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As reported on TechCrunch. by SARAH PEREZ If you’re an iPhone user, you might be feeling a little left behind, because Facebook launched an application called Facebook Home, touted by CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the “next version of Facebook.” In fact, you might be feeling this way if you’re an Android user, too. For now, only a handful of select devices can even run Home (officially) — notably missing from the lineup is Google’s Nexus 4, the latest in the lineup of…

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The Idiocy Of The Social Animal

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As reported on TechCrunch. by JOHN BIGGS As we move closer to the launch of the (probably awful) Facebook phone, let’s examine just what the social network and its ilk have created. Millions of us use these new tools to joke, flirt and share memories, but just as many of us use these tools much to our disadvantage. In some ways, however, that is making things better for all of us. This morning Gawker posted surveillance video…

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HTC First pictured ahead of Thursday’s Facebook event (update: now with more colors) Mobile

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As reported on Engadget. By Brad Molen The mysterious Facebook event is quickly approaching , and as luck would have it,@evleaks is hooking us up with an image of the device that we’ll be introduced to on Thursday, known as the HTC first. If this is indeed accurate, the press render you see above is what was previously known as the HTC Myst (as well as the Opera and Buffy, if you go back in time far enough). We still don’t…

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Why Facebook Home Is Potentially Brilliant

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As reported on TechCrunch. by GREG KUMPARAK Let’s say we build a phone, theoretically. We’re not! But if we did, we could get maybe 10 million people to use it. 20 million. That doesn’t move the needle for us. –Mark Zuckerberg, Disrupt SF 2012 With today’s leaks, it’s looking like Zuck was being almost completely honest. Facebook isn’t building a Facebook Phone. They’re letting HTC do it for them. But that’s seemingly not the end goal, here. Don’t…

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Why I Think LinkedIn Endorsements Will Be Dead By The End Of The Year

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As reported on Businessinsider.com René Shimada Siegel, Inc. LinkedIn LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner gives employees iPad Minis at an all-hands meeting Today, I received LinkedIn endorsements of my skills from five people I’ve never met. There’s no way these people have any context for my ability to deliver the skills and expertise they endorsed. Don’t get me wrong. LinkedIn is still an invaluable tool for my business and I’ve written about it before. But I’m worried about these endorsements which…

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