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Jerry Yang’s Brush With Death (Comic)

Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on January 20 at 5:14 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.

There Are Seven Billion People on Planet Earth Right Now (Try to Keep Up, Facebook!)

Kara Swisher in News on October 31, 2011 at 10:49 am PT

It’s official: Seven billion people are alive in the world at this moment, a high population point of all time. And they are more digital than ever.

Viral Video: The Funniest Steve Jobs Spoof Ever

Kara Swisher in Media on October 6, 2011 at 12:14 am PT

We all need to laugh a little after today’s sad news of the death of Apple co-founder and chairman Steve Jobs.

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I-Postmortem Wants to Make Us All Virtually Immortal

Liz Gannes in Social on September 12, 2011 at 9:01 pm PT

All of us who use the Internet are going to die at some point, and it’s not yet established what we’ll do with our online presences and whether we’ll leave digital legacies. A new entrant to the online cemetery space launching at the DEMO conference today is I-Postmortem, which offers sites for not-dead-yet people to create a sort of time capsule of their last wishes and documents stored at a Swiss data warehouse (costing a hefty $120 per year!). What seems problematic about this approach is that start-ups often die much sooner than people.

Handling the Digital Death — Or Not — Of a Business

Liz Gannes in Social on September 6, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Online acknowledgement of the death of a commercial establishment is perhaps not as touchy a subject as how the Web handles the death of a person — but it’s still pretty awkward.

QOTD: Keep Calm and Carry on, Twitter!

In any case, I hope Google+ succeeds. Given the blog posts saying this will kill Tumblr, Twitter, Foursquare, etc, you might wonder why I feel that way. Well first, I don’t think competitors kill companies and services. I think the vast majority of “deaths” are self inflicted.

– A VC Fred Wilson, on the newest entrant into social networking game.

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If You Die Tomorrow, Who Will Bury Your Data Six Feet Under?

Drake Martinet, Associate Editor, All Things Digital in News on April 8, 2011 at 9:12 am PT

Who is going to be reading your email after you die? Life Ensured, a start-up offering end-of-life planning, thinks this will be a grave issue in the future.

How to Hoodwink Twitter (Hint: It’s Easy)

Peter Kafka in Media on March 15, 2010 at 3:00 am PT

You don’t need to get a group of Digg fans to spread a fake story on Twitter. But it’s a pretty effective way to do it.

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SeaWorld Shuts Down Shamu's Twitter Feed After Trainer's Death

Marisa Taylor, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on March 1, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Following the death of SeaWorld whale trainer Dawn Brancheau, the Twitter account of killer whale Shamu has been silenced. Yes, Shamu has a Twitter account, and boasts more than 10,000 followers.

A Bing Bug? If Not, How Did This Dude Beat Out Megan Fox and the Even Prettier Robert Pattinson for Most-Searched Celeb?

Kara Swisher in News on November 30, 2009 at 5:25 am PT

Since Bing only debuted at mid-year (and at the D: All Things Digital conference too), BoomTown is willing to cut it some slack. Until the Microsoft search service revealed on its blog last night that Perez Hilton–the irksome gossip blogger–beat out “Transformers” hottie Megan Fox and “Twilight” hottie-er Robert Pattinson for the top celebrity searched using Bing in 2009. Clearly, Bing’s algorithm needs some tweaking by real people.

Jerry Yang’s Brush With Death (Comic)

There Are Seven Billion People on Planet Earth Right Now (Try to Keep Up, Facebook!)

Viral Video: The Funniest Steve Jobs Spoof Ever

I-Postmortem Wants to Make Us All Virtually Immortal

Handling the Digital Death — Or Not — Of a Business

QOTD: Keep Calm and Carry on, Twitter!

If You Die Tomorrow, Who Will Bury Your Data Six Feet Under?

How to Hoodwink Twitter (Hint: It’s Easy)

SeaWorld Shuts Down Shamu's Twitter Feed After Trainer's Death

A Bing Bug? If Not, How Did This Dude Beat Out Megan Fox and the Even Prettier Robert Pattinson for Most-Searched Celeb?

TMZ's Harvey Levin Speaks About Michael Jackson and More!

Michael Jackson’s Last Performance on the Web: Big, but Not Obama Big

Jeff Goldblum Defies the Web, Denies His Death on “Colbert Report”

Bing Marketing Dollars at Work: Farewell, Michael Jackson

Farrah Fawcett Also Remembered on the Web

Viral Video: Luke Russert Honors His Father

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