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While Google introduces its new Chrome OS (which I'm hearing will be widely available in one year?  Did I mishear that?), IBM announced 10 new products today to help companies using IBM System z mainframe technology.
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Facebook Lacks Social Skills
11|20|09   |   1:53   |   1 comment

Facebook's 'Suggestions' for users demonstrate how little social networking sites understand about true social relationships.
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ThinkerNet Wins Min's Award for Best Blogs!
11|19|09   |   1:13   |   4 comments

ThinkerNet wins the Min's award for 'Best Blogs' – Internet Evolution's fifth award this year!
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Dogster.com More Popular Than Gov 2.0
11|17|09   |   2:05   |   1 comment

A lot of attention is being paid to launching Gov 2.0 Websites, but these sites aren't attracting a lot of visitors.
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LinkedIn Takes a Step Away From Professionalism
11|12|09   |   2:10   |   12 comments

LinkedIn partners with Twitter to incorporate Tweets into its status updates. So much for a professional network.
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Two Keys to a Successful Facebook Group
11|9|09   |   2:00   |   4 comments

Most Facebook Groups are fundamentally useless, but Nicole thinks she’s found the two-part formula to making them work.
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Developers Take Google to Task
11|5|09   |   1:53   |   7 comments

The Google backlash continues. After seeing their Project 10^100 submissions disappear into the bowels of a Google server farm, a group of irate developers has started their own site to re-collect and vote on the ideas.
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The Unimportance of Real-Time Search
11|2|09   |   1:36   |   6 comments

The big news at the Web 2.0 Summit was that Twitter partnered with Google and Bing, enabling the search engines to show Tweets in search results. This couldn't possibly be less interesting.
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Why Wi-Fly?
10|22|09   |   1:57   |   13 comments

The three main problems with using in-flight Internet.
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10|15|09   |   1:46   |   11 comments

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Twitter Conferences & the Demise of Humanity
10|13|09   |   1:56   |   6 comments

The rise of industry events centered solely on the topic of Twitter is enough to make some people cry. Literally.
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Google Drops 10^100 Ball
10|6|09   |   1:55   |   13 comments

Google has finally opened voting on Project 10^100, but rather than allow the public to vote on specific, concrete project ideas, Google spent a year watering down its submissions into broad idea 'themes.'
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