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For those of you who haven't been invited to beta-test Twitter's redundant waste of time new ReTweet feature, I've got the full skinny here: you're not missing much, and nothing innovative is brought to the table here at all. Twitter's Retweet (beta) feature: note the "ReTweet" link next to th
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Ever noticed in Gmail, Twitter or Facebook how the last portion of the URL (the so-called "hash") changes with each navigation, while the actual URL remains the same? This unique AJAX technique, employed by some of the top current Web 2.0 apps, has many benefits besides usability: it actually sav
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When I was a kid, I would take foods that tasted really good by themselves and mix them all together - sometimes in a blender. And it was fucking nasty. I look at Google Wave as Google's technological way of repeating the same experiment: take Docs, Orkut, Gmail, Wikipedia, and IM, stick the
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Twitter decided to give a nice Happy Halloween to users today in the form of radically changing the site's design and modifying tweets upon an update containing solely "#trick" or "#treat" tweeted from its standard web client. Below are some screenshots of this temporary feature (for historic pu
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Bored websurfers have, at some point or another, typed "www.hell.com" into their browser's address bar just out of curiosity. And they've discovered an anomaly that provokes many questions, seemingly with no answers. Well, this article explains everything behind www.hell.com that there is to kno
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If anybody noticed, Yahoo! Geocities officially closes today for good. But, for the geeks that recall being on the Internet prior to 2000, a piece of history was lost today. To pay tribute to what was the first web host for many of us, several popular website have paid tribute and provided archives
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As the Facebook Insider reports, Facebook recently added a 'Widowed' option to its list of relationship status types in response to a growing petition. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="267" caption="Facebook's Updated Relationship Statuses, Including the Newly-added 'Widowed'
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It's on everyone's mind every now and again, but nobody ever says it: SEO and spam both have the same goals, yet the ethics involved in the tactics of reaching said goals are what separate one from the other. This post is more of a "Dos and Don'ts" post as far as SEO is concerned. There is a poi
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Google: If they ever make any change to their front page, it's usually just a link to a new product/service or merely swapping out their logo to celebrate some event (including April Fool's). But now the search engine giant is radically changing their entire search engine, behind the scenes at l
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Remember in the mid-90's when people were absolutely paranoid about the Internet, believing that the government knew everything about us and that these "hackers" might be able to steal our information? Those AOL trial-goers would drop dead if they saw the new project being led by MIT's Aaron Zin
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