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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s Stock Price Is the Least Important Thing About Facebook</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/18/facebooks-stock-price-the-least-important-thing-about-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 12:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is fond of telling his cohorts that their journey is only one percent finished. Even if you quibble about the exact percentage, he&#8217;s right that his company&#8217;s vision is boundless and that the service, in its current incarnation, is nowhere near done exploring its potential. The man is nothing if not both ambitious and patient. Wall Street, unlike Zuck, is famously bad at taking the long view of things. When Facebook went public, a year ago today, shares were snapped up by speculators hoping to make an insta-windfall from a pop in its stock price. At the end of the first day of trading &#8212; bedeviled by NASDAQ technical gremlins &#8212; the stock flatlined rather than popping. In the year since, as my colleague Sam Gustin reports, it&#8217;s bumped around without ever returning to the initial offering price of $38. Some people are still brooding about it. If you&#8217;ve lost money on Facebook stock, I feel for ya. Really. But the fact that it didn&#8217;t turn out to be a convenient way to turn a quick buck doesn&#8217;t have much bearing on the company&#8217;s importance to the world. It doesn&#8217;t even say much about the its long-term prospects to do well by investors. Plenty of tech companies have had happier IPOs than Facebook did, but a happy IPO has never been a reliable sign of a bright future. Consider Netscape, the browser pioneer which went public in 1995, in what may remain the most iconic tech-company IPO of them all. In 2003. Jim Cramer, now the host of CNBC&#8217;s Mad Money, wrote a wistful remembrance of it for TIME: We didn&#8217;t know what it was. We had never opened a browser. We had never gone on the Net. But we had heard that the deal would be hot, so we at Cramer &#38; Co., my $250 million hedge fund, dutifully put in our share of stock in the initial public offering of Netscape. We got several thousand shares. And we, along with most everyone who got some,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=163011&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Unfriend on Facebook Without Offending</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/17/how-to-unfriend-on-facebook-without-offending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 09:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Christina DesMarais</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a Facebook friend who constantly is firing off preachy religious or contentious political posts that are clogging up my social stream with stuff I don’t care to read. At the same time, the guy is the dad of one of my son’s best friends and I have to see him on the sidelines of school sporting events, so the last thing I want to do is offend him. If this scenario sounds familiar, take heart. There are ways to rid your Facebook News Feed of annoying posts. First, you can unfriend the person—Facebook will not notify the person you have done so. Of course, if the person starts to wonder why he or she is no longer seeing your posts and searches for you, your former connection will find your profile page and see an “Add friend” box on the top of it, a dead giveaway pointing toward what you&#8217;ve done. Facebook As an alternative, you can tell Facebook to show you fewer posts from a particular person. To do it, click on the little drop-down arrow on the top of something he or she has posted, then choose “Hide.” Facebook then tells you it has hidden the story from your News Feed and gives you the option to “Change what updates you get from (so and so)” or “Organize who you see in news feed.” If you click on the former, you can uncheck—and tell Facebook you don’t want to receive certain kinds of information about this person—things like life events, status updates, photos, games, comments and likes, music and videos and other activity, essentially everything a person is doing on Facebook. There’s also an option to simply unfollow a person. Facebook If you opt to organize your News Feed, you can put people on an acquaintances list so that their posts show up less frequently there as well as get the ability to share things with friends but not acquaintances. Again, nobody will know you’ve put them on this list. But what about the people who you really care about—the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162912&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Tragic Beauty of Google+</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/16/the-tragic-beauty-of-google/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 07:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google likes to use the word &#8220;beautiful&#8221; a lot when describing its own products. That would be grating if it weren&#8217;t for one fact: more and more, the company is building beautiful stuff. And I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s ever built anything more beautiful than the new version of its Google+ social network which debuted on Wednesday during the Google I/O keynote. The service, which was already pretty darn slick, is now among the most attractive and engaging web apps I&#8217;ve ever seen. Streams of activity are now laid out as one, two or three columns of tiles, depending on available screen real estate, with some oversized photos spanning the whole width. (Judging from my stream, some Google+ aficionados like the old format better &#8212; they can switch back to one column &#8212; but I find the new one less claustrophobic.) The left-hand toolbar which used to hog space now disappears until you need it; throughout, the level of visual polish is high, with pixel-perfect design and subtle little animations as you click on different controls. Google+ can now auto-hashtag your items, a feature which is useful because you can click on any hashtag and then flip through related items shared by other people, without leaving the page you&#8217;re on. When it figures out a hashtag based on words in your post, it&#8217;s neat. But in some cases, it can also analyze a photo to determine a relevant hashtag, a feat which can be downright dazzling. I uploaded a shot from Disneyland and a drawing of Superman; it correctly identified both and linked appropriately. The photo features, already practically a service unto themselves, get a thorough makeover. In a feature which reminds me a bit of Everpix, Google+ gives you a page of &#8220;highlights&#8221; which it chooses algorithmically: shots with family members, shots with smiling people, shots which it just deems to be aesthetically pleasing. There&#8217;s an auto-enhancement feature, which would be nice, but no big whoop except that you can tell Google+ to apply it to all your photos<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162860&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ongoing Coverage of Google&#8217;s I/O Conference</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/14/google-io-coverage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 19:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, May 15, Google is kicking off its I/O conference in San Francisco &#8212; the biggest three days of the year when it comes to news about Android, Chrome, Glass, search and other Googley matters. My colleague Jared Newman and I will be there for ongoing coverage, beginning at 12pm ET/9am PT on Wednesday, when the conference begins with a three-hour keynote. Join us then and throughout the week for our take on the show, its announcements and whatever new gadgets debut, all on this page.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162779&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Facebook Ruined Comments (at Least for Me)</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/12/facebook-comments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 18:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlike some folks, I&#8217;m not reflexively opposed to major Facebook changes. Oftentimes, when the service switches things around — which it does more or less continuously — I find the new version to be an improvement. Or at least I understand what it&#8217;s trying to do. But a few weeks ago, Facebook switched things up in a way that briefly left me wondering if I was going prematurely senile. Now that I more or less understand what&#8217;s going on, I&#8217;m an unhappy camper. For the first time, the company has instituted a change that meaningfully lessens my enjoyment of Facebook — and there&#8217;s no way for me to undo it. It gets weirder: it turns out that the change I can&#8217;t stand is something I was initially happy to hear was arriving. It&#8217;s called Replies, and it lets folks respond to specific comments that other members leave on an update, thereby creating individual threads rather than one master list of comments on an item. That change is long overdue. Here&#8217;s the thing, though. The feature doesn&#8217;t simply permit threaded comments. It also attempts to rearrange comments to put the best ones at the top. That&#8217;s the part that&#8217;s driving me bonkers. To quote from Facebook&#8217;s blog post about the Replies feature: Conversation threads are reordered by relevance to viewers, and may appear differently to each person based on their connections, specifically: Positive Feedback: the amount of positive feedback based on the total number of Likes and Replies in a conversation thread, which includes Likes or Replies by the Page owner. Connections: connections to participants in a thread may move the conversation higher. For example, conversations with Comments left by friends may appear at the top. Negative Feedback: the total number of spam reports in a thread, as well as marks-as-spam made by the Page owner. We also may down-rank comments made by frequent spammers. Got it? Threads with Likes and Replies are likely to bubble up; everyone may see different orders based on whom they&#8217;re friends with; spammers will be<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=162436&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Your Facebook Password? Get Back In with a Little Help from Your Friends</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/02/lost-your-facebook-password-let-your-friends-help/</link>
		<comments>http://techland.time.com/2013/05/02/lost-your-facebook-password-let-your-friends-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 16:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no one ideal way for a website to let you recover a lost password &#8212; one which will always let you get back in without inordinate hassle, but which will never allow an imposter to compromise your account. So sites typically provide multiple recovery methods. And after a period of testing, Facebook is formally announcing a new one today called Trusted Contacts. Trusted Contacts is an updated version of an existing feature called Trusted Friends, which lets you specify friends on Facebook who can help you get back into your account. Using the service&#8217;s security settings, you name three to five friends &#8212; the kind, Facebook says, who you&#8217;d entrust with a copy of your house key. Then, if you ever get shut out of your account, you can contact all the friends you chose. Facebook will give each of them a unique code to relay to you; if you enter all the codes, you can restore access to your account. As Facebook&#8217;s blog post on the news notes, this approach isn&#8217;t absolutely free of security concerns: someone could conceivably figure out who your Trusted Contacts are, impersonate you and initiate the recovery process. For that reason, the company encourages members who take advantage of the feature to contact their pals in person or on the phone rather than by e-mail or chat. I wonder what percentage of folks who get locked out will use this option to get back in &#8212; and whether other services will copy the idea?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=161697&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Reddit’s Hunt for the Boston Bombers</title>
		<link>http://nation.time.com/2013/04/23/inside-reddits-hunt-for-the-boston-bombers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Pickert / Watertown and Adam Sorensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As rumor and misinformation circled traditional and new media alike, a few like Cheetham and Luke gathered information from primary sources. “Everybody has a lot of questions and we just want everything answered,” says Cheetham. “Instead of waiting for answers to come to us, we are trying to get them ourselves.” via Inside Reddit’s Hunt for the Boston Bombers &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160841&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Comedy Central to Launch Twitter Comedy Festival</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/22/comedy-central-to-launch-twitter-comedy-festival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Associated Press</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK (AP) &#8212; Putting a new test to the adage that brevity is the soul of wit, Comedy Central is partnering with Twitter for a comedy festival played out in 140 characters and 6-second videos. The Viacom Inc.-owned network said Sunday that the festival with the hashtag &#8220;ComedyFest&#8221; will debut April 29. Over five days, comedians will tweet jokes and post videos with the recently launched video app Vine, which limits footage to 6 seconds. The launch of the festival, which Comedy Central is expected to officially announce Monday, was first reported by The New York Times. Kicking off the social media festival will be an event Monday at the Paley Center in Los Angeles featuring Rob Reiner, Judd Apatow and Mel Brooks. So far, Brooks is a Twitter holdout.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160790&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reddit and Crowdsourcing: Valuable or Problematic?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/19/reddit-and-crowdsourcing-valuable-or-problematic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the mad scramble to figure out who was behind the Boston Marathon bombings, there&#8217;s been a lot of praise and scorn heaped upon Reddit &#8212; and crowdsourcing in general &#8212; for its attempts to play detective. Reddit is deserving of both. While the social news site did unearth some useful information, such as a photo of one of the suspects that originally appeared on Facebook, it also named the wrong man as a suspect and later apologized. This may seem like an incredibly wobbly stance to take (Reddit is good! It&#8217;s also bad!) but the reality is that crowdsourcing is valuable for certain things, and problematic for others. As we follow along with major news events, readers and news organizations alike need to be mindful of what Reddit&#8217;s strengths and weaknesses are so we can stay informed while steering clear of bad info. Reddit Is Great at Gathering&#8230; When thinking about Reddit&#8217;s role in crisis situations, my mind jumped back to the theater shooting in Aurora, Colo., last year. As soon as the news broke, Redditors began compiling information in real time, and the result was a comprehensive timeline of what happened. The information on that page outshined any website story or TV news broadcast you could find at the time. There was no filler, no noise, just hard data updated regularly. Want more? Refresh the page. This is standard procedure for Reddit during huge, breaking news events. Here&#8217;s a timeline for the Boston Marathon explosions, and here&#8217;s one for the West, Texas fertilizer plant explosion. Reddit isn&#8217;t just good at compiling what&#8217;s already known. It&#8217;s also good at digging up new points of interest. After the Aurora shooting, one Redditor who was in the theater offered a first-hand account of the events. This thread led to other first-hand information, such as photos of the scene. Once the suspect was identified as James Holmes, Reddit uncovered information from an adult dating site that the mainstream media missed. Reddit&#8217;s strengths are inherent to its nature. As a massive community on the hunt for<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=160667&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>States Rush to Ban Employers from Asking for Social Media Passwords</title>
		<link>http://swampland.time.com/2013/04/09/states-rush-to-ban-employers-from-asking-for-social-media-passwords/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katy Steinmetz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should your boss ever have access to your Facebook page? What about a prospective boss? Or your school administrator? via States Rush to Ban Employers from Asking for Social Media Passwords &#124; TIME.com.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159846&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Home for Android: What You Need to Know</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/04/facebook-home-what-you-need-to-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wasn&#8217;t lying all those times he insisted there is no Facebook phone. Instead, there&#8217;s Facebook Home, a piece of software for Android that puts social networking front-and-center. How does Facebook Home work? Let&#8217;s walk through the details of what it is, and when you can actually try it yourself: Facebook Home Is a Launcher That Works with Existing Android Phones On Android phones, the launcher determines what your home screen, lock screen and other elements look like. All Android phones have a default launcher, but there are others you can install. For instance, you can get a launcher that gives you extra home screens, or changes the way app icons look. Facebook Home is just another alternative launcher that you can download for free. Once installed, it changes the way your phone&#8217;s software looks and behaves. In place of a traditional lock screen, you get full-screen images from Facebook and status updates that you can swipe through, along with regular phone notifications. From there, you can jump right into Facebook Messenger, open your most recent app or view your app list. You can also post Facebook status updates, photos or check-ins directly from the app launcher. It Runs All the Same Android Apps Facebook isn&#8217;t doing its own app store for Home; it&#8217;s relying on Android&#8217;s existing one. You can still have Gmail, Chrome, Maps and other core Google services, and you can download more apps from Google Play, just like you can with any alternative launcher. In other words, Facebook hasn&#8217;t done any deep modifications to Android, like Amazon did with its Kindle Fire tablets. That allows Facebook Home to run on existing phones, in addition to new phones with Home pre-installed. Think of it as a layer that runs on top of your existing Android software. Facebook Messaging Is a Huge Focus The other big feature in Facebook Home has the rather silly name &#8220;Chatheads.&#8221; When you receive a text message, Facebook message or group Facebook chat, a little circular icon pop ups with<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159608&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Privacy Settings Guide</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/04/04/facebook-privacy-settings-guide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Techlicious / Katharine Knibbs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing you have to realize about Facebook: nothing you put on there is truly private. Yes, you can control how users see or don’t see your profile. But every time you ‘Like’ a product or even look at a page, the company itself is taking note. This doesn’t mean that someday Facebook will malevolently release your every click to the world. But it’s also not your private diary, and what you do on the website gets collected and cataloged. You should always keep that in mind when you’re using the service. That said, Facebook is a great way to stay in touch and share small and big moments with family, friends and assorted other connections. The key is making sure you’re presenting the most appropriate profile possible to each &#8220;Friend.&#8221; So let’s go over the various settings you can change to ensure pictures of your wacky jaunt to Vegas don’t end up at the top of your boss&#8217;s News Feed. Facebook  has retooled its privacy settings time and time again to make them more user friendly, so customizing your settings is a fairly straightforward procedure. It’s an important one, though, since Facebook tends to automatically opt you in to new information sharing unless you go through and manually adjust the settings to the level of transparency you want. Check your current basic privacy settings When you log into Facebook, in the top right hand corner there are two different ways you can assess your privacy settings. If you push the lock icon, you open a drop-down menu that shows “Privacy Shortcuts.” From here, you can make a few key changes to your settings. Who can see your future posts? In this section you can limit exactly who sees your updates. That may be a little too restrictive, but at the very least click on the Custom button in that section and make sure your posts are being posted Publicly (unless you want them to be.) You can also place your Facebook Friends in lists and restrict your posts to those<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=159510&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TIME Staff</dc:creator>
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		<title>15 Twitter 140 Alumni You Should Follow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 09:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Amy Lombard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, in celebration of the release of our 2013 Twitter 140 list, we&#8217;re highlighting fifteen spectacular alumni – ranging from politics to fashion – from our previous Twitter 140 lists that are worth your follow. BuzzFeed Its Twitter bio says it all: Worth sharing. BuzzFeed features the latest viral content floating around the social web – from breaking news and politics to cats. 27 brilliant Grumpy Cat items for sale bzfd.it/11jsjMU http://t.co/qdiTMJGqSw&#8212; &#160; (@BuzzFeed) March 20, 2013 SFMOMA SFMOMA is the West Coast’s first museum dedicated to 20th century art. Its Twitter feed is exemplary – educating and actively engaging its audience on the history of art. &#34;What is art?&#34; Here&#039;s a word cloud created from your responses to the question: sfmoma.me/ZsgQGZ Phew, glad we got that one solved! ;)&#8212; &#160; (@SFMOMA) March 19, 2013 Cory Booker Cory Booker is the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and a bonafide social media superhero. His Twitter account serves as an online help hotline, responding directly to residents’ requests at all hours of the day. Give her my best. RT @Megsingtonville: My sister says what&#039;s up.&#8212; Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) March 09, 2013 Alyssa Milano To say that Alyssa Milano, the actress best known for her roles on Who&#8217;s the Boss and Charmed, is an active Twitter user would be an understatement. Her constant Tweets cover everything from science and parenting to hard news. &#34;What happens when a redditor discovers a locked safe in a former drug house?&#34; dly.do/YmCIRF via @dailydot @Ramisms&#8212; Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) March 19, 2013 Whole Foods With tweets about organic food, nutrition and cooking tips, Whole Foods’ Twitter account will make you never want to eat junk food ever again. EGG FACT: A hen can produce one egg in 24 to 26 hours! (3/23 is Eggstravaganza) #WFMegg&#8212; Whole Foods Market (@WholeFoods) March 20, 2013 Mindy Kaling Mindy Kaling is a triple threat – an actress, television writer and published author. As we put it in 2012, “Mindy Kaling tweets are an intelligent — and more sane — version of her Office character, Kelly Kapoor.” Following Kaling on<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158716&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Netflix Goes Social in the U.S., but Watch Out for Your Privacy</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/13/netflix-goes-social-in-the-u-s-but-watch-out-for-your-privacy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Netflix]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than a year after Netflix added Facebook connectivity in other parts of the world, U.S. users are finally getting their chance to share. Netflix&#8217;s social features are rolling out in the United States this week, allowing users to see what their Facebook friends are watching, and vice versa. Although 44 other countries have enjoyed this feature since 2011, the United States had been excluded due to an old law against disclosing people&#8217;s video sale and rental records. The law was amended in January, after a big lobbying push by Netflix. Being able to see what friends are watching could be useful when Netflix&#8217;s own recommendation algorithms fall short, which happens quite often, in my experience. Still, not everyone will want to be transparent about their viewing habits. Thankfully, sharing with Facebook is opt-in, but once you&#8217;ve done so, everything you watch gets shared automatically. Here&#8217;s how the sharing works in detail: Once sharing becomes available to you, you&#8217;ll see a dialog box on Netflix&#8217;s website asking if you want to connect with Facebook and share your viewing history. If you agree to share, the videos you&#8217;ve watched &#8212; both past and present &#8212; become visible to your Facebook friends. They&#8217;ll see your viewing history as part of a &#8220;Friends&#8217; Favorites&#8221; list on Netflix&#8217;s website and apps, and they&#8217;ll also be able to look up what you, specifically, have watched lately. Things get a little messy if you want to pre-screen which movies and shows to share. The only way to do this is to start playing a video, then click a &#8220;Don&#8217;t Share This&#8221; button in the player during the first few minutes of playback. You can also go to the web page for that title and click the &#8220;Unshare&#8221; button. There&#8217;s no way to choose whether to share or not share a video before you actually start watching it. By default, the videos you watch don&#8217;t appear on your Facebook timeline, they only show up within Netflix itself. You can, however, add Netflix viewing history to your Facebook<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=158076&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South by Southwest (SXSW): Commerce Goes Local, Social and Mobile</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/10/south-by-southwest-sxsw-commerce-goes-local-social-and-mobile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 03:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Smartphones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As usual, I&#039;ve been spending most of my South by Southwest Interactive conference hanging out and chatting with interesting people. On Sunday afternoon, I did so with Chi-Hua Chien, a partner at venture-capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers; Logan Green, co-founder and CEO of ride-sharing services ZimRide and Lyft; and Bo Fishback, co-founder and CEO of local marketplace Zaarly. And the only thing which made this engaging conversation different from any of the other ones I&#039;ve had this year in Austin was that we were having it on a stage in front of a large ballroom full of conference attendees. Our panel was titled &#8220;Mobile Disruption &#38; the Rise of the Local Web,&#8221; and the subject was services which, like Lyft and Zaarly, involve commerce between local individuals &#8212; and which are designed primarily for phones and other mobile gadgets rather than PC browsers. (Another excellent example, which kept coming up during our discussion, is person-to-person lodging rental service Airbnb.) We talked about how these services differ from their predecessors designed for old-school browsers; how Lyft and Zaarly are rolling, out local community by local community; and the challenges of building a business when entrenched competitors don&#8217;t like you and laws were never designed with you in mind. I&#039;d tell you more, but the only downside of moderating an absorbing panel is that it&#039;s, well, absorbing &#8212; and you really can&#039;t take notes to jog your memory later. So after our talk concluded and the final audience members were done peppering Chien, Green and Fishback with questions, I headed to Twitter to check out the tweets which the panel had inspired. Here, in Storify form, are a sampling of them:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157918&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Few Reasons to Actually Like Facebook&#8217;s News Feed Redesign</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/07/a-few-reasons-to-actually-like-facebooks-news-feed-redesign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook users have a long history of flipping out over the site&#8217;s numerous redesigns. While I fully expect this to happen again as Facebook rolls out its upcoming News Feed overhaul, the changes actually seem welcome. The redesigned News Feed is simpler, cleaner and designed to be consistent across desktop and mobile devices. Here are a few reasons why that&#8217;s a good thing: The Current News Feed Is a Godawful Mess Just step back and look at the News Feed today and admire what a terrible wall of text it has become. Seriously, who thought the four-column layout with two separate feeds &#8212; a main column for major news, and a smaller news ticker for the network&#8217;s excruciating minutiae &#8211; was a good idea? There&#8217;s so much clutter on the screen that it&#8217;s hard to find the types of information you&#8217;re actually looking for. With the redesign, Facebook has condensed its two feeds into one, with an easy-to-spot filter on the right side for viewing certain types of updates (more on that shortly). The chat frame has been condensed into the left sidebar, which is now just a strip of icons, so there&#8217;s less text on the screen overall. In total, the page is back down to three columns &#8212; one of them being quite narrow &#8212; and all the action happens at the center of the screen, as it should. Facebook Things You Don&#8217;t Care About Should Be Easier to Ignore (and Vice Versa) A key feature in the redesign is a feed selector, which lets you focus on specific types of news. The &#8220;News Feed&#8221; filter is the regular assortment of updates, sorted by algorithm in order of importance, while the &#8220;Most Recent&#8221; filter shows everything in reverse chronological order. There are also specialized feeds for Photos, Music, Games, Groups and more. The use of filters is basically an acknowledgement that the old ticker on the right side of the screen didn&#8217;t work. It was just an unwieldy mass of random likes, comments, game activity and shared Spotify songs, with<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157802&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter to Take TweetDeck Web-Only, Axe Facebook Integration</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/03/05/twitter-to-take-tweetdeck-web-only-axe-facebook-integration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:05:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Aamoth</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had a good run, TweetDeck. Thanks for the memories. Your ability to show me my Twitter feed and Facebook feed in a single column, combined with the ability to post work-related updates to both Facebook and Twitter at the same time while converting our URLs to custom ti.me Bitly shortlinks on the fly will not be forgotten. You may not have been used the same way by others, but to me, you were perfect. I don&#8217;t mind the web-only version of you. The future is in the cloud, after all, and getting rid of your desktop, Android and iPhone apps makes it that much easier for Twitter to update you across the board. When Twitter bought you in May of 2011, some worried that your ability to pull in updates from multiple social networks would wither on the vine. T&#8217;was a cold December that same year, as you lost LinkedIn, Foursquare, MySpace and Google Buzz integration. Facebook was all that remained &#8212; but it was all that I needed. Let&#8217;s make the best of the remaining time we have together. In May, when your Facebook integration draws its final breath and the sound of a million uninstallation procedures rips through the aether in unison, I&#8217;ll remember the words of a band that once thought they&#8217;d be bigger than the Beatles: I won&#8217;t look back in anger. An update on TweetDeck [TweetDeck Blog]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157631&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>App.net Goes Freemium</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/25/app-net-goes-freemium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Harry McCracken</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Technologizer]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until now, one of the defining aspects of App.net&#039;s upstart social network has been the fact that it costs $36 a year (or $5 a month) to belong. The price of participation keeps droves of new members from flooding in &#8212; and that may be a good thing if the main thing you care about is the quality of the conversation, since people who pay up are more likely to be thoughtful, fully-engaged members of the community. Now the service is introducing a free level of service. But as CEO Dalton Caldwell explains, it&#039;s not throwing the doors wide open: To get access to the App.net free tier, you must have an invite. These invites are being distributed to current App.net members on paid plans. Free tier accounts are similar to paid tier accounts, but with a few limitations. These limitations are as follows: Free tier accounts can follow a maximum of 40 users Free tier accounts have 500 MB of available file storage Free tier accounts can upload a file with a maximum size of 10 MB The services which App.net offers &#8212; a Twitter-style discussion network and online storage &#8212; have plenty of free, freely-available competitors with less restrictive policies. So anyone who uses App.net&#039;s free version will do so because they believe in its community and its philosophies, which include encouraging the creation of third-party apps (there are now over a hundred of &#039;em) and avoiding ads and other forms of monetization which bring third parties other than users into the equation. It&#039;ll be interesting to see if the free option has any fundamental impact on the service&#039;s scale and personality.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=157220&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Poutsch, Your Opinion Matters</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2013/02/25/to-poutsch-your-opinion-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rebecca Nelson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there a God? What about your eggs – how do you like them? Poutsch, a Paris-born startup launched in late 2012, wants to know what you think. Or really, your friends, family, colleagues and strangers online want to know, and the opinion-aggregating social network lets users ask and answer questions on any topic. They can be specific (Hummus or guacamole?), broad and philosophical (Are you confident in the future?), political (Is Hugo Chavez a dictator?). Click your answer to see what others think: people you follow, people in your area, people the world over. Fill out your gender and age to see the demographic breakdown. &#8220;It’s a bit of a little online democracy,&#8221; says Etienne Adriaenssen, who co-founded Poutsch with two of his friends. During the 2011 Arab Spring, they saw the outcry on Facebook and Twitter, but couldn&#8217;t make sense of who was involved, and to what extent they were participating. There weren&#8217;t hard numbers. &#8220;There was no real place where we could figure out quantitative and qualitative data on what had happened and how many people were involved in these movements,&#8221; Adriaenssen explains. Various social networking profiles can give away a lot about our beliefs: what pages and statuses we &#8220;like,&#8221; what we retweet, what we pin to our &#8220;Outfits I Love&#8221; Pinterest boards. But these actions aren&#8217;t reliable as hard data. When a person retweets something, Adriaenssen says, there&#8217;s no way to determine their stance: Do they agree with the initial sentiment, are they angry or are they just interested in the topic? And while you can guess at demographics, a person&#8217;s Twitter profile doesn&#8217;t always give away their age, gender and location &#8211; crucial factors in data analysis. (MORE: Quora Goes Beyond Q&#38;A with Blogs) Poutsch, a play on the German word for coup d&#8217;état, aims to bring the world&#8217;s opinions into a global conversation. &#8220;To be able to really understand history,&#8221; says Adriaenssen, &#8221;you also need to be able to understand why, what drives certain people to do things. And opinion is really that.&#8221; At the International Youth<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=156600&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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