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The Turducken-Free All Things D Thanksgiving Reader (And Watcher)

Liz Gannes in Social on November 24, 2010 at 12:10 pm PT

Hold the Turducken! Even without that freakish Thanksgiving treat, the Web is full of fun diversions on every topic, including the thankful, enhanced-patted-down long weekend of consumption Americans have ahead of us.

Yahoo Dramatically Expands Twitter Relationship in Next Stage of "Project Rushmore" (Complete With Cutesy Bird Puns)

Kara Swisher in News on February 23, 2010 at 5:42 pm PT

Yahoo announced tonight that it is dramatically expanding its relationship with Twitter, integrating it broadly through its Web site, much in the same way it did recently with Facebook.

Yahoo's "Project Rushmore" Begins With Massive Facebook Connect Deployment Across Internet Giant

Kara Swisher in News on December 2, 2009 at 5:30 am PT

A few weeks ago, several sources at Yahoo began telling BoomTown about a mysterious “Project Rushmore,” which was described as a massive integration of major social networking sites across the giant Internet portal. Now, the first unveiling of Project Rushmore comes with this morning’s announcement that Yahoo will be integrating Facebook Connect with its many properties, from its powerful media sites to its Flickr photo service to its email. One delicious irony here: Yahoo almost bought Facebook several years ago.

The McCain and Obama Speeches: Gracious Both in Defeat and in Victory

Kara Swisher in News on November 5, 2008 at 12:11 am PT

Both President-Elect Barack Obama and the man he beat in a historic election, Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, gave the kinds of speeches at the end of the last night that make one proud to be part of a country where stark differences still mean grace can prevail when it’s all over. But don’t take my word for it–the Internet makes it possible to consider them again and again. They are a shining example of–as Obama quoted our greatest president (in my estimation, at least), Abraham Lincoln last night–of how such a contest should end: “We are not enemies, but friends, though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection.”