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Ultimate Big Brother: Makosi and Nadia evicted as Vanessa Feltz enters

Ultimate Big Brother: Makosi and Nadia evicted as Vanessa Feltz enters

By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 11:49 PM on 3rd September 2010 The Ultimate Big Brother house lost two housemates but acquired another one tonight.

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Reporters’ Roundtable: Checking in with Facebook and Foursquare

The new hotness in tech investing today is location check-in apps.

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Facebook adds ‘liked’ news stories to search results

Facebook’s search results featuring “liked” articles.

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Is Digital Eavesdropping Evil? Depends Which Country Is Doing It (TCTV)

First we had the Google vs China debacle, then came Saudi Arabia’s tussle with RIM.

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A Closer Look At Apple’s Latest Patents

Apple has been granted nine new patents, and I thought I’d take a look at the claims therein and see whether they match up to the descriptions, and whether they seem (to this humble blogger) like realistic items for which to gain exclusive rights. I’ve included links to all the patents, but the USPTO office is behaving strangely, and often returned an error when I tried to pull up documents. Those guys ought to claim a method to buy some new servers, whereby I don’t have to submit the patent number five times before it comes up

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Tweetmeme’s Button Impressions Collapsed 20% After Twitter’s Button Launched

It was only a year ago that Tweetmeme declared their intention to be the king of retweets . And for most of the past year, that was the case. Their retweet button was everywhere. Of course, that was before Twitter launched its own button last month.

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A World Without E-mail: One Man’s Vision of a Social Workplace

Luis Suarez has a dream, and it’s one that many of us with our overloaded inboxes could well buy in to — a world without e-mail. In fact, it could be argued that Suarez is living the dream

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DoubleClick Ad Planner’s Bestiality Bug (Screenshot)

Is Google serving up ads targeted at sites which categorize themselves as “extreme porn,” bestiality,” and “child porn”? Rest assured, it is not. But if you are a website publisher using DoubleClick’s Ad Planner to select categories to match your site to advertiser’s interests, you might think so

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Offerpal Gets Its Third CEO In A Year, Garrick Named Executive Chairman

Offerpal Media has just announced that Mihir Shah has been named president and CEO, while chairman and former CEO George Garrick has been named executive chairman. This is Offerpal’s third CEO in a year; Anu Shukla left the company last November following the Scamville drama and was replaced with former Mochi Media CEO George Garrick.

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Facebook Search Now Displaying Top “Liked” Stories from Across the Web

Facebook Search Now Displaying Top “Liked” Stories from Across the Web

In today’s world of real-time status updates, search is evolving to account for the social nature of the web. Facebook is pushing forward in this direction with on-site search functionality that now displays search results — for Facebook and web content — based on “Likes” and shares.

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