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Eleven Things About Demand Media’s Richard Rosenblatt

Beth Callaghan in Ten Things About Me May 18, 2012 at 2:08 pm PT

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Google Says Forced “Sharing” Is a Bug, Not a Feature

Peter Kafka in Media May 15, 2012 at 11:38 am PT

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News Byte

Twitter Tailors Your “Who to Follow List,” but Only if You Want It

in Social on May 17 at 4:18 pm PT

Twitter began rolling out tailored suggestions for users to follow on Thursday, aiming to give Twitter newcomers better direction in learning how to navigate the somewhat abstruse microblogging platform. The suggestions stem from a tracking cookie Twitter sends to new users, allowing the company to see sites visited within the past 10 days. Twitter then uses that information to recommend who to follow. Users can also opt out of this service.

News Byte

Twitter Enables “Do Not Track” Feature Across Supporting Browsers

in Social on May 17 at 9:59 am PT

Twitter users on supported browsers can now opt out of being tracked by third-party sites and cookies by enabling the “Do Not Track” feature, Twitter announced on Thursday. Federal Trade Commission CTO Ed Felton championed the feature at a conference in New York on Thursday morning. Since Mozilla first introduced the feature for its Firefox browser last year, the company claims nearly 10 percent desktop-user adoption of DNT, and almost 20 percent on Firefox for mobile.

And the Blood Money?

The smart money is flying out of Facebook as the dumb money piles in.

– From The Wall Street Journal’s Rolfe Winkler

You don’t get to 500 million movies without making a few duds.

Aaron Sorkin’s Steve Jobs will be the best or worst movie I’ve ever seen.

– Dan Frommer, via Twitter

News Byte

Cannes Ad Conference Roars for Twitter’s Jack Dorsey

in Media on May 15 at 7:02 am PT

The Cannes Lions, the people who put on a giant advertising trade show every year in France, have named Twitter’s Jack Dorsey as their “Media Person of The Year.” The honorific comes as Twitter has begun ramping up its ad-selling efforts. For context: Previous winners include Google’s Eric Schmidt and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg.

Pinterest Prompts a Start-Up’s Pivot: Meet Curalate, an Analytics Engine for Images

in Social on May 15 at 5:20 am PT

You’re a brand that has lots of stuff on Pinterest. How do you find it?
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Tweeter’s Digest: Twitter Rolls Out Weekly Recap Emails

in Social on May 14 at 2:53 pm PT

For those not used to real-time Twitter news, there’s a compact version available.
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Voices

How to Improve the Worst Mother’s Day Gifts Ever (Comic)

in Voices on May 11 at 4:00 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.
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Bing Redesigns to Split Out Details and Social Into Their Own Panes

in News on May 10 at 10:00 am PT

Microsoft today is changing up its Bing search interface to separate out a lot of the information it had previously packed directly into the core list of search results.
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MS iCloud.NET Live

iCloud is among the best products Microsoft has ever designed.

– Mike Monteiro, via Twitter

Adaptly Tries to Ride Facebook’s Ad Rise, With a $10.5 Million Round

in Media, May 9, 2012 at 6:00 am PT

Hackers Post Mostly Inconsequential Twitter Account Data Online

Tweet Free or Die: In Defense of Occupy Protester, Twitter Fights the Man

in Social, May 8, 2012 at 5:49 pm PT

Start-Up Domo Goes 100 Percent More Social Starting Today

in Enterprise, May 8, 2012 at 1:22 pm PT

In Wake of Instagram Acquisition, Twitpic Launches iPhone App

Flipboard CEO McCue Likely to Step Down From Twitter Board Over Potential Future Conflicts (Or Closer Cooperation)

in News, May 7, 2012 at 1:37 pm PT

HootSuite Adds Industrial-Strength Social Media for Corporate Teams

in News, May 7, 2012 at 5:58 am PT

They Shoot Yahoo CEOs, Don’t They? But Not Without a Really Smoking Gun and a Much Stronger Board.

in News, May 5, 2012 at 9:33 am PT

Dude, You’re Getting an F

Twitter Pairs With UC Berkeley for Big Data 10

DataSift Raises $7.2 Million in Venture Funding

Zimmerman Legal Team Launches Social Media Campaign

In a Bid for Accessibility, Twitter Updates Its Discovery Engine

in Social, May 1, 2012 at 10:16 am PT

Understanding the IP Wars

in Voices, April 30, 2012 at 10:12 am PT