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New Delicious: now with more flavour

Quiet day, settled in for the evening, and then… up pops a new Delicious.
It shouldn’t be a big deal (the Delicious refresh has been circling over the runways for what seems like years now), and in some ways isn’t. There no wild and wacky shift in functionality; you save your bookmarks to the site, and [...]

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Muppets on social media

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Last.FM: life after the big buy-out

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What’s so wrong with context, love and understanding?

There’s now a well-established universe of A-List bloggers. Among the millions of us sharing our mundane adventures, these people are the elite, the pivot around which the blogosphere rotates.
But far from evolving from enthusiastic semi-amateurs into a formidable new journalistic force, this elite may be turning inward. Cyndy Aleo-Carreirra over at Profy.com argues that they [...]

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‘Completely open social networks do not work’

Human beings collaborate. They also deviate, plan and plot. On a good day, they’ll create intricate towers. On average days, they’ll saw half way through your chair leg while you’re out at lunch. This seems to be the basis of a piece over at Publishing 2.0, which argues that Digg – the original open social [...]

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Like Google, only hand-crafted

Just stumbled upon a Firefox extension from the people at Mahalo.

Not Earth-shaking, I know, but quietly cool. Mahalo, in case you’ve been holidaying on Mars for the last six months, in the new search engine from Jason Calacanis, the entrepreneur who brought you such legendary web properties as WeblogsInc (the power behind Engadget and Autoblog).

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Baby Boomers Storm Internet

Everyone knows the UK has an aging population – by 2012, the average Briton will be 132 years old, and all of them will rely on the handful of under-20s to help them cross the road.
Doubt this as fact? Try a new report from Neilsen, which points to a fundamental shift in the age profile [...]

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The largest threat to Google yet?

Wikia Search went live today.
So what? So it’s the brainchild of one Jimmy Whales, the clever chap who brought you Wikipedia. So there’s just a remote chance that it may fly.
The search results are, so far, pretty damn poor, and many of the preferences do not work. But as the world gets stuck in and [...]

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Twitter, Facebook bring world economies to their knees

Nope, it’s not Islamists, the Russians or short-sighted Americans taking unaffordable loans. No, the globe’s financial wiring is being pulled apart by… instant messaging and your online buddies.
OK, so it’s the late noughties version of IM and buddies, but it’s IM all the same. I’ve been monitoring various stories this week concerning the public use [...]

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Google to launch Facebook rival

 So the search giant is going to unveil its Facebook rival on November 5 (no source here… just a hail of blogosphere noise).I’m wondering what tricks Google has up its sleeve to bring down the social giant. In case they’re still wondering, and happen to be reading this, here are a few ideas:

Bring every social [...]

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