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  Top 5 Social Sites for Film Fans

  7th February 2012 23:56

  If you ranted and raved about the recent Oscar nominations on Facebook, but none of your friends seemed to care, it’s time to either A) find new fri…

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  Rapportive Would Mesh Well With Recent LinkedIn Acquisitions

  7th February 2012 23:56

  AllThingsD's Liz Gannes has sources telling her that Rapportive, the best thing that ever happened to email, has been acquired by LinkedIn. We've heard the scuttlebutt, too. Our friends at LinkedIn won't say a word. Rapportive co-founder Martin Kleppmann "can't comment," and CEO Rahul Vohra has been quiet on Twitter lately. That's all we know. So we aren't reporting that it has happened, but we're bracing ourselves in case it does. Since Rapportive is the most useful plug-in ever, we're…

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  Apple in Talks to Open Mini Shops Within Sam’s Club Locations [RUMOR]

  7th February 2012 23:36

  Apple may be working on a deal to open up a series of mini shops inside Sam’s Club locations, according to a new report. According to a re…

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  Red Hat's GlusterFS Appliance for Amazon Now Totally Virtual

  7th February 2012 23:30

  One thing you don't quite get accustomed to in reporting developments in cloud technology is how even the virtual things become virtualized. Last December, Red Hat released a software storage appliance based on the GlusterFS software-based NAS system that Red Hat acquired in October. That product is a way to apply the same methodology that GlusterFS customers used to build network-attached storage pools completely from existing storage. That product had been described as a "virtual storage appliance" - in fact,…

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  Why Lady Gaga’s New Social Network Looks Like Pinterest [PICS]

  7th February 2012 23:18

  Pop megastar Lady Gaga has pierced her powerful, digitally-willing paws deeper into the online world with the closed beta launch of her new social net…

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  TinyVox & the End of Voicemail

  7th February 2012 22:55

  Last week, I got a kind of tweet I hadn't seen before. It was an audio-tweet from TinyVox, an app for iOS and Android that lets users send voice messages to anyone on the Web or just keep them as memos. That doesn't sound like a new idea, but that's the point. As you can see from the interface, TinyVox is all about recovering an old, beloved medium we've lost: the heartfelt mixtape. My audio-tweet was from Srini Kumar, developer…

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  Prop 8 Is Unconstitutional — Social Media (Mostly) Says Good Riddance

  7th February 2012 22:52

  A federal court decided on Tuesday to uphold a ruling from 2010 that declared the ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional — and it cause…

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  Zuckerberg to Be Taxed at Lower Rate Than Most Facebook Employees

  7th February 2012 22:38

  Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg‘s future tax rate is likely to be in Mitt Romney territory while more recent Facebook employees w…

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  Why Second Screens Beat the Super Bowl

  7th February 2012 22:30

  "If the Super Bowl is such a meaningless game, why are so many people posting updates about how they're not going to watch it?" said one of my Facebook friends, as the game approached halftime. OK, I don't follow football. And I especially don't know anything about the Super Bowl. After the Super Bowl, I was wondering why Nicki Minaj and MIA (aside from her Cee Lo flick-off) didn't play a bigger role in Madonna's halftime show. I was also…

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  An Idea for Fixing Education: Skip College, Work at a Startup

  7th February 2012 22:22

  Skip college, work at a startup. That’s the idea behind a new two-year program called Enstittue that started accepting applications Tuesda…