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ESPN tries to kill the trolls: Facebook comments only
Jul 17, 2013
After more than five years of anonymous comments, ESPN.com now requires your Facebook account if you have something to say.
The New Facebook and why Netflix split in two
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Steve Henn
Sep 23, 2011
How important is Facebook's push into digital media? It's huge. Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix, believes the social network could remake the w...
Facebook's new face
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Steve Henn
Sep 22, 2011
Facebook wants to spend more time with you. Deepen the conversation, peer into your soul, hear the story of your life. It wants you to break out...
Solving Problems, One Song at a Time
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Adriene Hill
Sep 22, 2011
Need to unload? Or want to help out the emo boy on the bus? Emotional Bag Check is a website that lets strangers suggest songs to cheer other...
Michael Arrington Is Out at Tech Crunch
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Steve Henn
Sep 8, 2011
Arianna Huffington appears to have won the glorious, public, smack-down within AOL over Michael Arrington's plans to both write about startups at...
Wikipedia losing contributors
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Adriene Hill
Aug 4, 2011
The online encyclopedia Wikipedia isn't attracting contributors like it used to. Founder Jimmy Wales told the Associated Press that the company...
Airbnb is sorry enough to give you a $50,000 guarantee
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Adriene Hill
Aug 2, 2011
Airbnb, the travel start-up that matches travelers with people looking to rent their home or apartment, is fending off a recent rash of really bad...
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OK Go's kaleidoscopic magic
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Steve Henn
Jul 29, 2011
The hipster, pop-band OK Go has a new video out. And it is interactive. It uses HTML 5 and a whole lot of little browser windows crate a kind of ...
Rickrolling @whitehouse
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Steve Henn
Jul 28, 2011
The White House is holding "office hours" on Twitter during the debt ceiling negotiations. During yesterday's session, some Obama staffer...
Airbnb users has apartment trashed
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Steve Henn
Jul 28, 2011
Airbnb is an online service that helps home owners hook up with vacationers looking to rent apartments or houses. The idea is simple, while you're...