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Social Media According to a recent international survey of 2,200 mothers, 81% of children under the age of two currently have some form of online presence — ranging from photos uploaded and shared by their parents, to a full-fledged profile on a social networking site. A full 92% of children in the U.S. have an online presence by the time they are two, compared to 73% in western Europe.
The study, which was conducted by Internet security firm AVG, found that nearly one in…
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Dev & Design Komodo 6, the latest version of a popular, multi-language IDE (integrated developer environment) from ActiveState, has just been released today.
Among its features are support for HTML5 and CSS3; the new IDE also offers more support for Python…
October 7, 2010 Jolie O'Dell View Comments

Dev & Design “Hello, I am Javier Bardem. Welcome to Esquire magazine.”
So opens the October edition of Esquire for the iPad, the first issue the Hearst-owned title has created for the device. The walking and talking video of Bardem quickly fades into…
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Dev & Design Eliot Horowitz is a co-founder and CTO of 10gen, makers of MongoDB, an increasingly trendy database that’s used by Foursquare, among others. He’s just released a statement on what went wrong this week that led to Foursquare’s…
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Social Media Google News is currently testing a new feature that allows users to integrate their Twitter accounts with the news aggregator.
Search Engine Land reports that the experiment appears in a “Friends” section that some users can…
October 7, 2010 Radhika Marya View Comments
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Business The rumors are swirling today about a secret meeting between Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen. While a meeting between the heads of two tech giants isn’t uncommon, reports say that they discussed a possible…
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Nailing down a short pitch for why someone should invest in your business will come in handy at some point, even if you never actually end up in an elevator with the venture capitalist of your dreams.
For…
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Business Bit.ly has just announced a $10 million Series B round led by RRE Ventures (which has invested in Drop.io, Xobni and BuzzFeed, among others) and joined by AOL Ventures, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, Betaworks, Ron Conway’s SV Angel and a…
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Social Media In a new study about the news consumption and sharing habits of its international readership, CNN found that 43% of online news sharing occurs via social media networks and tools, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and
October 7, 2010 Lauren Indvik View Comments

Mobile Mozilla has just unleashed Firefox Beta for mobile on the waiting world.
Formerly codenamed “Fennec,” Mozilla’s mobile project is now simply called FirefoxFirefox.
The initial rollout is available for owners of Nokia N900 phones and any…
October 7, 2010 Jolie O'Dell View Comments
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You saw the movie. You watched every single parody. You even tuned in to the live stream of Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook announcements yesterday just to see his face.
If you can’t get enough of…
October 7, 2010 Brenna Ehrlich View Comments

Social Media After weeks of waiting, it seems that most Twitter users now have access to “
October 7, 2010 Jolie O'Dell View Comments
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Web Video About six months ago a mystery man known only as Merton burst onto the scene, garnering acclaim and attention for creating improvised songs on his piano by surfing Chatroulette.
In addition to the viral buzz, Merton also attracted…
October 7, 2010 Brenna Ehrlich View Comments

Jobs Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, na...

Social Media Gap unveiled yesterday a new logo Vice President of Corporate Communications Bill Chandler describes as, “a more contemporary, modern expression.” Unfortunately, fans, designers and webizens everywhere seem to hate it, so much so that the company appears to be…
October 7, 2010 Jennifer Van Grove View Comments

Business Antony Mayfield is iCrossing’s Senior Vice President, Social Media, leading the company’s services and innovation efforts related to the social web. You can find him on iCrossing’s blog or on Twitter. This article is based on…
October 7, 2010 Antony Mayfield View Comments

Social Good Hey dudes — ever wanted to grow a ’stache to rival the long, flowing follicles of such luminaries as Salvador Dali, Hulk Hogan and the Biker from the Village People? Well, this Movember — a month-long charity event raising money…
October 7, 2010 Brenna Ehrlich View Comments

Business This post originally appeared on Dyn.com, a world leader in managed DNS, powering the best brands on the web including Gowalla, Mashable, Twitter, Wikia and more. Follow @DynInc on Twitter.
Community management is anything but…
October 7, 2010 Jennifer Van Grove View Comments
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Social Media Facebook launched Wednesday its revamped version of “Groups,” a much more social, exclusive version of the old iteration. And, as always, the Facebook community met the new addition with a mixed bag of questions, praise and complaints.…
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