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Tech NewsSocial MediaDealzmodo: Papa John’s Facebook Friends Get One Free Pizza
If Papa John’s thinks that they can buy our Facebook friendship by offering us a free medium pizza with any online order…they’re completely right. The free medium pizza is a new promotion to generate social networking buzz, and 10,000 users have already signed up, probably rubbing a collective hundreds of gallons of free garlic sauce … Continued
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SNIF Tag Social Networking Lets Your Dog Get in on the Action
If you’re a devoted dog lover and have ever created a Facebook profile for your loyal companion (and I hope for your sake that you haven’t), SNIF Tag offers you the chance for beloved Fido to get in on the action. Just for $299, the SNIF Tag clips on to your pet’s collar and picks … Continued
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Tech NewsSocial MediaHumanity Will Record Apocalypse with Cellphones
After yesterday’s California earthquake everyone and their dogs* is posting videos online. Cellphones, camcorders, digital cameras, or CCTV, it doesn’t matter: like the following clips show, it looks like this era of democratized gadgetry has made humans eager to record their own destruction, perhaps as a last chance to leave a notch in History. I … Continued
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California Earthquake: Don’t Make Phone Calls, Use Text or IM Instead
You might’ve noticed that the ground got a little rumbly California. You also might’ve noticed that the phone lines are basically blowing up. AT&T is officially recommending to only “make emergency or urgent calls” and use text messaging instead, to keep lines open for emergency personnel. Facebook and Twitter are other options (if you’re one … Continued
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First Full Facebook App for Windows Mobile
Windows Mobile users have had to look on in envy as people poked and drew penises on their friends’ walls with dedicated apps for BlackBerry and Palm, wistfully hoping that joy could one day be their own. And now it is! Apparently the first full Facebook app for Windows Mobile, FriendMobilizer will let you do … Continued
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Rhapsody Makes Facebook App (Because Everyone Else Is Doing It)
Just got word that the Rhapsody music service has a new Facebook app called Music By Rhapsody. You get “access” to 4.5 million songs, and there’s a preference engine that recommends songs for you and your visitors to play from the profile page. The price catch is, you get 25 free songs per month, after … Continued
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W00t Wins Webster’s Word of the Year, Just Edges Out the Verb Facebook
W00t, that expression of joy invented by gamers way back when Sonic and Tails were special friends, has been given the accolade of word of the year by Webster’s dictionary. The word, which beat the verb “to facebook” has an uncertain providence: while some people think it is an acronym for “We own the other … Continued
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Web 2.0 T-Shirt Tells Us All Whether You Facebook Your Life Away
The latest addition to the chic geek’s wardrobe has got to be this web 2.0 T-shirt. The classy bit of kit contains a list of 79 social networking sites, all followed by tick boxes. Tick the ones you belong to and wear. By adorning your scrawny chest with this garment outdoors, you are able to … Continued
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RIM Launches Facebook App for BlackBerries
Always working to meet the needs of their bleary eyed, raw-thumbed customers, RIM’s making it easier for power traders and venture capitalists to poke each other right from their BlackBerries. The new Facebook app, available later today from Facebook or RIM only for T-Mobile customers for now [Update: People with other providers are saying it … Continued
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A-Space, MySpace for Feds
What do the the United States’ most classified, undercover agents need to do their job better? A little social networking. In order to better share information between various areas of U.S. intelligence, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is setting up a network called A-Space. A-Space is a social community ala Facebook that … Continued
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Bluetooth/Facebook Nodes Take Even More Human Interaction Out of Meeting People
Some scientists at Bath University in the UK have come up with an interesting albeit only marginally useful new way of making friends via Facebook. Rather than having to go through the process of, you know, meeting people and talking to them, it instead basically gathers the info of people who’ve been in the same … Continued
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Barack Obama Hops on the Web 2.0 Bandwagon
Remember in 2004 when Howard Dean discovered blogs and it “revolutionized” presidential campaigning? That was quaint. This time around, blogs are old hat and everyone is looking to use the internet to connect to you, the concerned and unapathetic voter. Prepare to get jaded and cynical. Barack Obama looks to be diving into this whole … Continued
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Cemetery 2.0 Connects Real Life Grave to Web 2.0 Fun
Whoever said Web 2.0 is nothing more than a passing phase? With something called Cemetery 2.0, people can connect physical gravestones to online memorials of dead people. Yup. Remember Great Aunt Agnes? Oh what a fighter she was. Now you can link her burial plot to her Facebook account, all her pics on Flickr and … Continued
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