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userinfuser - Open Source Gamification Platform - Google Project Hosting - 0 views

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    "From the makers of AppScale comes an open source platform that provides customizable gamification elements designed to increase user interaction on websites. The project involves badging, points, live notifications, and leaderboards. Additonally, the platform provides analytics to track user participation."
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How 4 people & their social network turned an unwitting witness to bin Laden's death in... - 0 views

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    In this case, there are four key players. Two of them are a couple: a journalist who lives in New York and a social media specialist who lives in London. The other two have roots in Pakistan: a journalist and documentary filmmaker who recently moved to the U.S. and a political commentator in Islamabad. Each of them contributed to a chain of information that turned one man's offhand comments about a helicopter in the middle of the night into an internationally known work of citizen journalism.
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Imagine Digg Fed by Your Twitter & Facebook Friends: That's XYDO - 1 views

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    A new social network launched today around the sharing and engagement of news. XYDO takes the social graph and turns it into a network of news that is automatically curated through users Twitter and Facebook streams. Think Digg and Reddit, add social news feeds automatically and you have XYDO.
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Sysomos on Osama Bin Laden: Wow, Does News Travel Fast - 0 views

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    Update: @TwitterGlobalPR has tweeted some factoids this afternoon. Twitter saw its highest rate of tweets per second last night with the peak coming with 5,106 at 11:00 p.m. EST. Between 10:45 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. EST Twitter average 3440 tweets per second. It is notable that Twitter did not crash under the load. A year ago at this time Twitter was having problems surrounding people tweeting about the soccer World Cup. This year the most notorious man in the world is killed and the company can handle it fine.
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Blogger "tweets" attack on Osama bin Laden | Pakistan | DAWN.COM - 0 views

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    ""People don't use Twitter here, hence they don't realize the attention they're getting," Athar said, referring to himself simply as a "tweeter" who happened to be awake when the action broke out. "Ignorance is bliss.""
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Your Gmail Hacking Finale: Official Advice from Google - James Fallows - Technology - T... - 0 views

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    What to do if your gmail account gets hacked and tips for avoiding getting hacked in the first place. 
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Obama Administration punishes reporter for using multimedia : Bronstein at Large - 2 views

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    Archaic policies designed for a previous age and knee-jerk reactions may have derailed a political journalist's career. Looks like the White House is still struggling to embrace the 21st century. Sounds familiar...
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How To Find Creative Commons Content With Google - 0 views

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    How to force Google to search for creative commons licensed stuff only.  
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Additional iPhone tracking research - O'Reilly Radar - 0 views

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    As some time passes we're getting a better understanding of what's going on with the iphone and android tracking data.  This post summarizes the research done as of 24 April, 2011. 
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Galaxy S II hits Korea with NFC payment system ready to go | Android Community - 0 views

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    Samsung and Korea's "KT" announces first NFC payment system that will be available to users. 
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Privacy, Security & Your Dropbox - 0 views

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    Dropbox explains changes to their Terms of Service and their various policies and approaches to protecting user data
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The AWS Outage: The Cloud's Shining Moment - O'Reilly Broadcast - 0 views

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    So many cloud pundits are piling on to the misfortunes of Amazon Web Services this week as a response to the massive failures in the AWS Virginia region. If you think this week exposed weakness in the cloud, you don't get it: it was the cloud's shining moment, exposing the strength of cloud computing. In short, if your systems failed in the Amazon cloud this week, it wasn't Amazon's fault. You either deemed an outage of this nature an acceptable risk or you failed to design for Amazon's cloud computing model.
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Skype Update for Android Fixes Security Flaw, Adds 3G Calling | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

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    Skype adds 3G calling on all US networks as it fixes security flaw. 
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