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A couple days ago, actor Ashton Kutcher stated his goal to beat CNN to be the first Twitter user with a million followers. He promised to punk CNN founder Ted Turner if the Internet made it happen. Yesterday, CNN anchor Larry King fired back at Kutcher saying that one man couldn't take down a whole network.
Kutcher was still trailing CNN by tens of thousands of followers, so he upped the ante by offering his one millionth follower the popular game Guitar Hero. A pretty weak offering for a...
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When the iPhone App Store launched last year, a flood of 'virtual' music apps, ranging from pianos to drums hit the market. Most of these didn't fare so well on the iPhone's small screen, save for one fantastic standout: Smule's Ocarina, which was perfectly suited for the iPhone and was fairly easy for beginners to pick up. The app became a massive success, and became one of the App Store's most popular applications ever. Today, Smule has released Leaf Trombone: World Stage, a new virtual...
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If it seems like Twitter is growing faster and faster each day, that is because it is. ComScore has released its March numbers for the U.S., and it estimates that unique visitors to Twitter.com grew 131 percent between February and March to 9.3 million visitors. No wonder Twitter is more popular than Britney.
Not only did Twitter more than double the number of people that go to its site in a single month, but it accelerated its growth from the 55 percent rate it experienced in February. ...
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In 1988, a young Bill O'Reilly and his Inside Edition team tried to answer the question: "What the hey is this 'Mario Brothers' craze sweeping the nation?" They failed, of course. Entertainingly!...
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Uh oh! Silicon Valley journalist Sarah Lacy laughed when Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk called a New York Times writer a "douchebag." Now the Times is in a snit and she's calling the newspaper sexist!...
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GROU.PS, a do-it-yourself social network focused on moderated online collaboration is launching a new tool, ActivityRank Pipelines. The feature is a point and reward system that lets moderators of a social network measure and rank members' content contributions and then extend moderation privileges to members based on these rankings.
The moderators are able to activate the "ActivityRank" feature within their admin interface, which can rank users by how much content is submitted onto the...
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Cloud storage startup Nirvanix said today it’s raised an additional $5 million from existing investors to continue the expansion of its business. The funding, from Intel Capital, Mission Ventures, Valhalla Partners and Windward Ventures, brings the total amount raised for the San Diego, Calif.-based startup’s Series A round to more than $23 million.
Nirvanix currently competes [...]
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Apple reveals the top iPhone apps to date (TheAppleBlog)
Twitter’s an energy guzzler (and other hard truths for Web 2.0 app addicts) (Earth2Tech)
Good news for new media job seekers (NewTeeVee)
Keep passwords in sync using RoboForm Online (WebWorkerDaily)
Silently track your family members with At&T’s FamilyMap (jkOnTheRun)
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They say numbers don’t lie, and in recent months the number of people populating virtual world Second Life has started to rise again. Mark Kingdon, CEO of parent company Linden Lab, has been touting the return to steady user growth; to back up his claims, he shared with us the chart below, which tracks the [...]
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It was in a conversation with Skype CEO Josh Silverman last fall that I raised the question: When will eBay spin off the mammoth Internet calling service via a public offering? Of course, he didn’t answer the question. The answer to that question came today, when eBay CEO John Donhaoe announced that Skype will have [...]
