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Stop everything, The Internet : AOL is now Aol. Whether superimposed on a fish or a hand or just some swirly crap, this logo makes the bold statement: We can no longer afford capital letters. [ Ad Age ]
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AOL
Besides his Patrick Bateman hair, obviously. The San Francisco mayor and obvious prick went into hiding after mysteriously quitting the governor's race , and his silence-breaking TV interview was a mess.
So, like, you might assume that interviewer Hank Plante would ask about this ...
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Couldn't get a Twitter book deal like Nick Douglas , Twitterature , or business huckster Garyvee ? Don't fret! Thanks to TweetBookz you don't even need a deal to see you precious 140-character musings on paper. Congrats! You're an author.
The most annoying thing about TweetBookz isn't that ...
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Wikipedia was probably pretty cool a few years back when you could just get a wild hair and immediately post up an article on The Artifacts , or whatever. But now it's run by a dead-ender Debbie Downer "deletionist" nerd army.
The WSJ reports that the number of Wikipedia editors ( real ...
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Wikipedia
Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is back .
Today, the Times runs a trend(ing) piece in the business section on how Twitter users ...
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Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is back .
Today, the Times runs a trend(ing) piece in the business section on how Twitter users ...
Online
Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is back .
Today, the Times runs a trend(ing) piece in the business section on how Twitter users ...
Online
Neel Shah got his scandal-phone returned; Kevin Marks got retweeted by ghosts and Al Yankovic was surrounded by nobodies. The Twitterati were haunted, in a good way.
Neel Shah, Page Six gossip and former Gawker and Radar -ite, was glad his phone didn't end up with the likes of his present or ...
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Kevin Rose
A National Security Agency director just bragged to a Senate subcommittee about his agency's close "cooperation" with Microsoft to, err, "enhance" how Windows 7 guards a user's privacy. Doesn't that just make you feel all warm and fuzzy?
The spooks at the NSA are, of course, notorious for ...
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The heretofore anonymous founder of Regretsy , the blog that appropriately mocks your dumb arts-and-crafts projects, has been outed. Because she got a book deal! New blog-to-book trend: Saying right up front the book will be more paltry than the blog.
Speakeasy reports that the Regretsy ...
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A Twitter engineer said Google's new "Chrome" OS is something you resign yourself to; a CNET writer said it's something you are infected with; and Mediaite might hang out awkwardly on Tumblr with it. The Twitterati were ruthless.
Twitter engineer Alex Payne is, needless to say, not impressed ...
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Courtenay Semel , the sapphic spawn of former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, is quoted in the lesbian magazine Curve dissing former lady friend Lindsay Lohan . Then she complains that the media twists her relationships. The nerve of this one.
Courtenay Semel , for those who are not familiar with ...
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Twitter today announced it will prompt users to post by asking "What's happening?" rather than the old "What are you doing?" We asked a prominent linguist if this means anything. Turns out it does: Twitterers are no longer such loners.
In short, Twitter's new slogan reflects the microblogging ...
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Facebook and Zynga are the defendants in a federal class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday, which seeks upwards of $5 million for social network users scammed in online game ads. Neither company's top-drawer investors can be happy.
The suit was probably inevitable. As we first reported , the ...
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Below, find the initial complaint in the federal class-action suit against online gaming company Zynga and social network Facebook, alleging the companies are liable for the scammy actions of their advertisers .
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Just in time for Christmas, AOL is asking 2,500 of its workers to volunteer for buyouts starting Dec. 4 (layoffs come after) as the company separates from Time Warner and a shadow of its former online conglomerate self.
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong (pictured) said in a memo to staff (below) that the ...
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Condé Nast says it is already racing to repackage its magazines for Apple's forthcoming tablet, staring with Wired , even while towing Apple's line that the Tabelt doesn't exist. Publishers are clearly betting Steve Jobs can save their business model.
The Apple Tablet has been something of a ...
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Rachel Sklar went without pants, Julia Allison went without sleep/discretion and Adam Lambert said you can go without him being too obviously gay in your magazine. The Twitterati were deprived and depriving.
Singer Adam Lambert issued Out a non-dential denial about him purposely keeping lady ...
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the PayPal co-founder and artificial intelligence enthusiast, explaining to Business Insider that Luddites may well be the first up against the wall when the robot revolution comes. The new order "could be very good, it could be very bad."
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Ricky Van Veen announced the production schedule for his brand-new TV studio, and it would appear the CollegeHumor founder believes the future of the small screen lies in the past, because he's unleashing a mess of game shows.
Maybe Van Veen has been spending too much time with his ...
