Facebook User Names
Apparently, there’s to be a sort of rush, according to TechCrunch.
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Google Buzz with WordPress
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I posted on March 23 about how security and convenience conflict. I just found some numbers on one of my favorite sites, FiveThirtyEight.com. Their article The Trouble With Leaving Facebook Is That We Like Facebook explains the data.
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I subscribe to Inside Higher Ed’s RSS feed, which delivered notice of an article by Alex Golub titled The Flaws of Facebook. Now while I’m going to react negatively to a portion of his work, there are some valid issues he’s addressing. If you’re a professor who might need to place more than one level…
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I’ve been missing TweetDeck on my main office system, which uses Ubuntu Linux, ever since Twitter bought it and eliminated Adobe Air. I was suspicious of the stability of Air, but I liked TweetDeck, and it worked. I’m embarrassed to say that I didn’t think of the solution myself, but rather found it here–TweetDeck for…
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They will, according to the New York Times and many other sources. It’s a form of advertising that they’re testing, designed to build revenue. At some point Twitter was going to have to do something like this. It was just a matter of time. I’ll be interested to see how well it works for advertisers…