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		<title>How to Get Your Underage Kid on Facebook: Just Lie!</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/11/02/how-to-get-your-underage-kid-on-facebook-just-lie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey parents, did you know Facebook has an age limit, or don&#8217;t you care? Turns out it&#8217;s the latter for most of you: Facebook sets the minimum age threshold at 13, a point I, too, was ignorant of until this study popped up, indicating that virtually all parents of underage kids that sign into Facebook on the sly are aware of and in fact appear to endorse what their kids are doing. According to the report, titled &#8220;Why parents help their children lie to Facebook about age,&#8221; millions of underage users simply bypass Facebook&#8217;s age rule and sign up for accounts anyway. What&#8217;s more, their parents know they&#8217;re doing it, and often help them make it so. &#8220;I know that Facebook isn’t meant for children under the age of 13,&#8221; said one parent involved in the study, &#8220;but I’m not sure what the harm is in letting my daughter join. She’s mature for her age and our computer is in the living room and I could require her to be ‘friends’ with me. Am I a bad mother if I let my 11–year–old on Facebook?&#8221; (MORE: If Zuck Had a Time Machine, Facebook May Have Stayed in Boston) She&#8217;s hardly alone. Parental awareness of whether a child had signed up for Facebook or not appears to increase as the child&#8217;s age decreases, so while 82% of parents surveyed knew their 12-year-olds were Facebook members, 95% were aware their 10-year-olds had an illicit account. And in the latter instance, 78% of parents surveyed actually helped them create the account. &#8220;Although many sites restrict access to children, our data show that many parents knowingly allow their children to lie about their age — in fact, often help them to do so — in order to gain access to age–restricted sites in violation of those sites’ [terms of service],&#8221; write the report&#8217;s authors. &#8220;This is especially true for general–audience social media sites and communication services such as Facebook, Gmail, and Skype, which allow children to connect with peers, classmates, and family members for educational, social,<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=101623&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Social Networking</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/apps-web/social-networking-apps-web/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>New Social Network Aims Smaller, More Local</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/26/new-social-network-aims-smaller-more-local/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget about your friends for a second, and start getting more community-minded; a new social network is much more interested in where you live, and who your neighbors are. Nextdoor is a new social networking site launching to the public today, with a twist. Because, as founder Nirav Tolia told All Things D, &#8220;your neighbors and friends are different people,&#8221; Nextdoor is a site where you and the people you live beside can talk about local issues, whether it&#8217;s block parties, safety or maintenance issues, or anything else that you&#8217;d otherwise have to set up mailing lists, private emails or—gasp—actually leave the internet and go outside to deal with. (MORE: The Future of Local Internet Is&#8230; Edible?) The site currently has 176 active &#8220;neighborhoods&#8221; across the U.S., but users can set up their own neighborhood themselves, selecting a geographical location (boundaries for said location are set by the user) and then convincing neighbors to join. If 10 users sign up from a particular location within 15 days, that neighborhood becomes active. All content posted to the site will remain private to its neighborhood, inaccessible to outsiders. The focus on local community will, Tolia hopes, differentiate Nextdoor from other social networks. It&#8217;ll also provide a hook for future advertisers, with the potential there for hyper-targeted local advertising, as well as the chance for smaller businesses to reach audiences that they otherwise may not have been able to afford. MORE: eBay Diversifies With Where.com, But is Hyperlocal Really the Future? Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=100993&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s iPad App Is Here and I&#8217;m Bored Already</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/10/11/facebooks-ipad-app-is-here-and-im-bored-already/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year and a half after Apple launched the iPad, Facebook has launched an official iPad app. Um, whoopie? While it&#8217;s nice to see Facebook finally take part in the biggest personal computing phenomenon since the laptop, Facebook&#8217;s iPad app has left me feeling cold. For one thing, it&#8217;s barely distinguishable from unofficial Facebook apps like MyPad and Friendly. (One exception: It links to iPad versions of any Facebook-powered apps you use, such as Zynga Poker.) More importantly, the lack of integration throughout iOS is a big letdown in light of what other platforms have done with Facebook, and what Apple has done with Twitter. (MORE: 10 Things You Shouldn&#8217;t Do On Facebook) Twitter is a big part of iOS 5, so users can tweet directly from built-in apps such as Safari, Photos and YouTube. Third-party apps will be able to tap these abilities as well, essentially letting you tweet from anywhere. No such functionality exists on iOS devices for Facebook. Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Phone platform, meanwhile, has full Facebook integration. It can show Facebook messages alongside incoming text messages. It can show new Facebook photos right on the home screen. You can easily share and tag photos in Facebook directly in the camera app. I&#8217;m sure these capabilities will extend to Windows 8 tablets next year. Android also has some Facebook integration thanks to the way the operating system lets apps share information. Whenever you see the &#8220;Share&#8221; button in an Android app—for example, in the camera, the web browser or some social networks—there&#8217;s a good chance you&#8217;ll be able to post that photo, link or status update to Facebook. Even HP&#8217;s fallen TouchPad has a touch of Facebook integration, showing photos from the social network inside the main Photos app, and letting users populate their contacts and calendars with Facebook data. (Mashable recently reported that Facebook&#8217;s TouchPad app infuriated Apple and further sullied relations between the two companies.) Compared to all these advancements, Facebook&#8217;s iPad app is like a lonely island, unable to communicate with the outside world of iOS.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=99514&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Fed Wants to Know What You&#8217;re Tweeting</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/28/the-fed-wants-to-know-what-youre-tweeting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 19:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve been badmouthing the Federal Reserve on Twitter and thinking no one cares, be warned: That&#8217;s not going to be the case much longer. The Fed is already planning to ensure that it knows exactly what you&#8217;re saying about it on all forms of social media. Responses are due today to a Request for Proposal issued by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which is looking for &#8220;a Sentiment Analysis and Social Media Monitoring Solution [to] identify and reach out to key bloggers and influencers,&#8221; in addition to monitoring any and all public online conversations about the Fed, as part of the FRBNY&#8217;s &#8220;Social Media Listening Platforms&#8221; initiative. (MORE: &#8216;Anonymous&#8217; Levels Hacking Threat Against Federal Reserve) As the RFP explains: Social media platforms are changing the way organizations are communicating to the public. Conversations are happening all the time and everywhere. There is need for the Communications Group to be timely and proactively aware of the reactions and opinions expressed by the general public as it relates to the Federal Reserve and its actions on a variety of subjects&#8230; Social media listening platforms are solutions that gather data from various social media outlets and news sources. They monitor billions of conversations and generate text analytics based on predefined criteria. They can also determine the sentiment of a speaker or writer with respect to some topic or document. Ideally, the Fed says, it&#8217;s looking for a solution that will monitor online discussions from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs and online forums as well as aggregate data from media outlets like the Wall Street Journal, CNN or even Techland. I don&#8217;t know which I&#8217;m more surprised about: that the Fed thinks this level of surveillance is necessary, or that there&#8217;s not already something available to federal agencies that lets them do this. MORE: Russia Develops Bank Machines with Built-In Lie Detectors Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98476&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Twitter</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/companies-2/twitter/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Facebook Gets into Politics, Forms Its Own PAC</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/27/facebook-gets-into-politics-forms-its-own-pac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, it&#8217;s not enough to &#8220;Like&#8221; a political campaign anymore; now Facebook wants to ensure that its voice is heard in the upcoming U.S. presidential election. The social media giant confirmed yesterday that it had filed paperwork to start its own Political Action Committee (PAC), following rumors spinning out of the registration of domain names FBPAC.org and FBPAC.us. According to a company spokesperson, &#8220;FB PAC will give our employees a way to make their voice heard in the political process by supporting candidates who share our goals of promoting the value of innovation to our economy while giving people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.&#8221; This isn&#8217;t Facebook&#8217;s first foray into political activism—the company&#8217;s lobbying spend for the fiscal year has totalled $550,000, up from $350,000 in 2010 and $200,000 in 2009—but, unlike previous experiences, the PAC will be the first time the company will back specific candidates. MORE: #NoEscapeFrom2012: Twitter to Start Selling Political Advertising Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98401&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Burglars Now Using Twitter, Facebook Against You</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/27/burglars-now-using-twitter-facebook-against-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next time you leave your home for any appreciable length of time, whatever you do, don&#8217;t tell the Internet. A new study has revealed that an unsettling 78% of burglars use social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare to choose just where they&#8217;re going to break in next. That&#8217;s not the only way that burglars have started using the Internet; 74% of those polled by British home security firm Friedland also admitted to casing their joint of choice using Google Street View wherever possible. If there&#8217;s an upside to this report, it&#8217;s that the survey sample size was surprisingly small—only 50 former burglars responded to the questions—meaning that there&#8217;s every possibility these results can&#8217;t be properly mapped onto a larger framework. Of course, it&#8217;s just as likely that while we&#8217;re mulling over the problem, smarter burglars are keeping their mouths shut about their methods and Googling your house even as you read this. Perhaps it&#8217;s time to start Facebooking about that terrifying new guard dog you bought last week, just in case. MORE: NYPD to Scour Facebook and Twitter for Evidence of Crimes Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98391&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ask Techland: How Do I Activate Facebook&#8217;s New &#8216;Timeline&#8217; Profile?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/23/ask-techland-how-do-i-activate-facebooks-new-timeline-profile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have a question for Techland? Send an e-mail to tips at Techland dot com and we&#8217;ll do our best to answer it. Question: I saw that Facebook announced some sort of new profile yesterday. Like, like, like and like! How do I get it?! Answer: So sorry loyal Techland reader: As Zuckerberg said at the end of f8 yesterday, you&#8217;ll have to wait a few months before Facebook rolls out the new&#8230; JUST KIDDING! (He said &#8220;weeks&#8221; anyway.) Over at TechCrunch they&#8217;ve outlined a way to get the new Timeline profile now. We tried it ourselves, and&#8230;it works! (LIST: 10 Things You Shouldn&#8217;t Do On Facebook) But it&#8217;s kind of harrowing: You&#8217;ll be able to go back to every status update you&#8217;ve ever posted since you created your Facebook account. Ready to hop in the DeLorean and push it to 88mph? Sure you are. Let&#8217;s do this. Step 1: When you log into Facebook, type &#8220;Developer&#8221; into the search bar up top. Step 4: Next you&#8217;re going to create a test action and object for your app. I filled these in as &#8220;read&#8221; and &#8220;magazine&#8221; (see the picture below). When you&#8217;re finished, click &#8220;Get Started.&#8221; And there you go! Poke around, tidy things up, add a cover photo&#8230;and cringe a little when you read the emo status updates you left for everyone in 2004. Pat yourself on the back for a job well done. Screen high-five? My hand&#8217;s touching. Chris Gayomali is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @chrigz, on Facebook, or on Google+. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98098&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Screenshot Tour of Facebook&#8217;s New &#8216;Timeline&#8217; Interface</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/23/screenshot-tour-of-facebooks-new-timeline-interface/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I signed up on Facebook back in 2004, mere months after Zuckerberg launched the social network at Harvard. At the time, the network was a hit amongst college campuses and was not yet available to the public. Since then, the user interface has gone through more looks and changes than Lady Gaga sees in a good month. Yesterday, Facebook&#8217;s new &#8220;Timeline&#8221; interface was unveiled at the annual f8 developer conference, and although the changes won’t be rolled out for a few weeks, developers can take a look at it now. So can regular users, by following a few steps provided by TechCrunch. We actually don&#8217;t suggest enabling Timeline right away, but here are a couple of interesting features you should know about it. (MORE: Reveal More, Consume More: Facebook&#8217;s Big Changes) Timeline, frankly, doesn’t feel like the Facebook you know and love. It feels like a giant album cover of your life put on display (which also explains why you can add a “cover photo” to your profile). Frankly, it’s an attractive and somewhat radical interface. With a two-column stream of updates, this redesign utilizes more space than ever before. Scrolling is reduced to a minimum, and the upper right-hand corner presents a neat little timeline since you’ve joined. Clicking on 2006, for instance, brings me straight back to college. It’s also possible to get even more granular, sorting events by specific months. Not unlike previous designs, the information section—where I state my occupation along with where I eat, live and breathe—fills the page, with blocks of content to segregate different types of data. There’s really not too much to comment on, other than the fact that it sort of looks a bit clunky compared to the rest of the makeover. (MORE: Two Minute Video: Quick Look at the New Facebook Interface) Perhaps a key feature of Facebook’s Timeline is the ability to go back and add important events that happened in your life. For example, it’s possible to add that you went traveling back in 2008, that you broke<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=98058&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Introduces &#8216;Timeline&#8217;: The &#8216;Story&#8217; of Your Life</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/22/facebook-introduces-timeline-the-story-of-your-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 18:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At today&#8217;s Facebook f8 conference, Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage to announce the biggest overhaul to the social network we&#8217;ve seen since 2008: &#8220;Timeline,&#8221; a new kind of profile. Zuckerberg introduced the new Facebook feature as &#8220;all your stories, all your apps and a new way to express who you are.&#8221; Previously your old information published on Facebook disappeared at the bottom of your profile in chronological order, kind of like &#8220;falling off a cliff.&#8221; (LIST: 10 Things You Shouldn&#8217;t Do On Facebook) &#8220;With timeline, now you have a home for all the great stories you&#8217;ve already shared,&#8221; writes Samuel W. Lessin, a product manager at Facebook on the company&#8217;s blog. &#8220;They don&#8217;t just vanish as you add new stuff.&#8221; The new timeline user interface is incredibly visual and unlike any type of profile we&#8217;ve seen on a social network. It starts with a giant cover photo sitting above a person&#8217;s profile (Zuck used his dog, Beast). When you scroll down, your Facebook activity is given a heavy visual treatment with photos and videos, something akin to Tumblr. When you click on a story it&#8217;ll double in size, allowing you to explore it more fully. Come across something that you want to look into more later? You can star your favorites or hide stories you don&#8217;t want to see. The new timeline won&#8217;t be available for a few weeks, although once it rolls out you&#8217;ll be able to either publish it immediately or spend a couple of days curating it, adding and removing content that you want people to see. Really, really cool stuff, Zuck. &#8220;Awesome&#8221; might even be in order. PHOTOS: Zuckerberg Somehow Qualifies for Mortgage, Buys House Chris Gayomali is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @chrigz, on Facebook, or on Google+. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=97995&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Changes News Feed to Focus on &#8216;Top Stories&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/21/facebook-redesigns-home-page-news-feed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=97750</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three things, they say, are certain in life: death, taxes, and Facebook redesigns. The social network, notorious for tinkering with its home page, has just introduced changes to the Facebook news feed with an emphasis on &#8220;top stories&#8221; instead of recent posts. Facebook users who don&#8217;t regularly visit the site will only see these top stories, which are based on your relationship to the person who posted, the type of story posted and the number of comments and likes received. Frequent visitors will see an option to expand recent posts at the top of the page. Top stories are marked with a little blue triangle in the top-left corner of each post. (MORE: 10 Things You Shouldn&#8217;t Do On Facebook) In a blog post, Facebook&#8217;s Mark Tonkelowitz likens the new look to a personalized newspaper. &#8220;You won&#8217;t have to worry about missing important stuff,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;All your news will be in a single stream with the most interesting stories featured at the top.&#8221; To make up for the lack of a proper timeline in Facebook&#8217;s main news feed, a &#8220;news ticker&#8221; now appears on the top-right corner of the screen, showing friends&#8217; latest updates in chronological order. Clicking on these updates shows the full story and all related likes and comments. (You may have noticed the news ticker already; it&#8217;s now available to all users.) You can also view status updates in chronological order by using lists, including the new &#8220;smart lists&#8221; that launched last week. (MORE: Everything You Need to Know About the Current State of Digital Comics) Not surprisingly, some Facebook users are already riled up about the redesign. &#8220;Stop changing,&#8221; Brandi Genest Weeks wrote on Facebook&#8217;s blog post. &#8220;You&#8217;re becoming MySpace and I left there for a reason.&#8221; But most users will probably enjoy the changes over time. How do I know this? Let&#8217;s consult a TIME story from 2006, in which students protest the addition of the news feed: &#8220;By its nature, News Feed is intrusive, and that&#8217;s what upsets students. It&#8217;s one thing to casually<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=97750&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook More Important than Toilets that Flush, Say British</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/14/facebook-better-than-flushing-toilets-say-british/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure, Americans may cumulatively spend 53 billion minutes per month on Facebook, but at least users in the U.S. understand that social media is less important than the ability to, for example, flush away human waste&#8230;unlike Facebook addicts in the United Kingdom. A study, carried out by the London Science Museum, has discovered that more Britons would prefer to live without a flushing toilet than abandon Facebook. Also on the list of things that people in the United Kingdom are more willing to give up than Facebook: fresh vegetables, fresh fruit and the chance to shower. (MORE: Americans Spend over 53 Billion Minutes per Month on Facebook) The results of the study—described by the museum&#8217;s exhibition manager, Sarah Richardson, as &#8220;crazy&#8221;—revealed a strange obsession with technology at the expense of the 3,000 respondents&#8217; well-being: An Internet connection was judged to be the second most vital thing in their lives (after sunshine), ahead of clean drinking water—surely not the intended result, as the study was carried out to promote the museum&#8217;s &#8220;Water Wars: Fight The Food Crisis&#8221; exhibit promoting the importance of clean drinking water. &#8220;Brits are obsessed by the weather, so it’s not surprising sunshine was rated as the top thing we couldn’t live without. But to say you can’t live without material things over drinking water is crazy,&#8221; said Richardson. &#8220;It seems having fresh drinking water is something that many of us take for granted but is becoming scarcer in many parts of the world. If you see how little water others have to drink or grow food you soon realize water is fast becoming a luxury for millions.&#8221; While the survey may have made Facebook feel good about its market penetration in the United Kingdom, Twitter didn&#8217;t fare as well; it was the first thing those asked were willing to give up. Perhaps the popular micro-blogging service should start advertising itself as the social media choice for people with their priorities straight. MORE: Study: 28% of U.S. Adults Use Phones for Directions Graeme McMillan is a reporter at<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=96812&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Reveals Active User Number, How Many Actually Say Something</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/09/twitter-reveals-active-user-number-how-many-actually-say-something/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 18:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[100,000,000. That&#8217;s Twitter&#8217;s magic user number, apparently. Twitter has finally revealed how many people actively use its microblogging service worldwide, and it&#8217;s significantly higher than the 21 million estimated by Business Insider earlier this year. According to CEO Dick Costolo, Twitter has 100 million active users currently, though not all of them are saying anything. (MORE: How Many People Actually Use Twitter? Good Question) Costolo&#8217;s presentation in fact provides all sorts of fascinating details about who&#8217;s using the micro-blogging service as well as how. For example, the 100 million active number is only half the number of registered accounts with the service, and of that 100 million, almost 40% log in merely to see what other people are saying. More than 50 million users log in each day, and the daily average number of tweets is in the realm of 230 million—up 110% since January. What&#8217;s more, over 55% of Twitter&#8217;s active users access the service via mobile devices, though direct traffic to Twitter.com is up 70% since January, topping 400 million monthly unique visitors. Sadly not revealed: what percentage of the 100 million active users were actually spambots with names made up of random letters who just want to tell you how to win an iPhone (or who knows what else). Perhaps we&#8217;ll get that from the next major info-dump, Twitter? MORE: Report: 92% of Newt Gingrich&#8217;s Twitter Followers Aren&#8217;t Real Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=96554&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Employees Pink-Slipped for Griping About Work on Facebook Get Re-Hired</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/09/07/complaining-about-work-on-facebook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five workers who were fired for complaining to each other about their jobs on Facebook will go back to work and receive back pay, following a National Labor Relations Board ruling in their favor. According to Inc., this was NLRB&#8217;s first social media ruling that didn&#8217;t target a specific company policy, and it was also the first social media case that didn&#8217;t involve a unionized workplace. The brouhaha began when an employee at Hispanics United of Buffalo, a non-profit, took to Facebook to complain about a co-worker. “[A co-worker] feels that we don’t help our clients enough at HUB,&#8221; the employee wrote. &#8220;I about had it! My fellow co-workers: how do u feel?” (MORE: Can You Be Fired for Bad-Mouthing Your Boss on Facebook?) Several other employees chimed in, defending themselves but criticizing working conditions and staffing issues. When Hispanics United got wind of the conversation, the company then fired five employees, on the grounds that they were harassing one of their co-workers. One of the employees complained to the NLRB&#8217;s regional office, alleging that Hispanics United was &#8220;interfering with, restraining, and coercing employees in the exercise of rights&#8221; under the National Labor Relations Act. A judge agreed, ruling that the employees were within their rights to converse among themselves about working conditions. That last part—conversing among themselves—is important. Under the National Labor Relations Act, employees have the right to talk with each other about improving work conditions. The NLRB viewed the employees&#8217; Facebook conversation as an example of that activity. It&#8217;s not clear whether the remarks could be seen by other Facebook users, but as a previous NLRB ruling has shown, it doesn&#8217;t matter as long as some employees are involved. Hispanics United can still appeal to the NLRB in Washington, Inc. reports. While the ruling is good news for people who want to vent their work frustrations on Facebook or other social networks, you&#8217;ll still want to be careful. This isn&#8217;t the first example of people getting fired for trash-talking their jobs on Facebook (other examples: waitress gets canned for complaining<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=96288&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Do You Think of Facebook&#8217;s New Privacy Features?</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/30/what-do-you-think-of-facebooks-new-privacy-features/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we reported that Facebook was set to give its privacy pages a much needed facelift. Its goal? To better streamline the controls granted to users over who can and can&#8217;t see their content. Previously Facebook users had to navigate through an unclear array of menus to get to their privacy settings. Now, that control is inline with each post, as well as available through multiple access points. In the process the social network eradicated its &#8220;Facebook Places&#8221; feature in favor of a status update bar that asks &#8220;Who You&#8217;re With,&#8221; &#8220;Where You Are&#8221; and whether you want each post to be public or private. (MORE: Why Facebook&#8217;s New Privacy Features Won&#8217;t Bury Google+)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=95333&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Adding Vintage Photo Filters Similar to Instagram&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/25/facebook-adding-vintage-photo-filters-similar-to-instagrams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:46:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Gayomali</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Google Plus was first unveiled, lots of photo geeks applauded the social network for its big 2,048 pixel resolution and ease of use. One of the more damning complaints leveled at Facebook was the way it compressed photos, at least until late last year. It was a long overdue upgrade, but along the way, Facebook earned a poor reputation as a space for photographers to share their work. That frankly makes this next move seem like a step backwards: The New York Times reports that Facebook will soon be letting users add their own Instagram-like filters to their photos. If you&#8217;re not familiar with Instagram, it&#8217;s an iPhone based photo-sharing service that now boasts over seven million users and recently crossed the 150 million photo threshold. Part of the allure is the ability to add vintage-looking filters to your pictures, which can compensate for less than ideal capture settings. The filters themselves add a kitschy charm that makes up for the iPhone camera&#8217;s shortcomings (though it&#8217;s actually quite good, all things considered). (LIST: 10 Things You Shouldn&#8217;t Do On Facebook) But on Facebook that won&#8217;t be the case. Sam Biddle at Gizmodo suggests that it&#8217;s the user base more than anything: Instagram&#8217;s audience tends to be photo savvy; there&#8217;s an element of competition to take better photos than your friends, and you&#8217;re not just uploading photos from the bar (although people do). On the other hand, Facebook—a massive enterprise with over 750 million users—may be unwieldy or simply too big for this sort of image fiddling. &#8220;There&#8217;s no more irritating place to superfluously alter photos than this kind of mundane s*** pit,&#8221; says Biddle. &#8220;Artificial grain, over-saturation, and Lomo-blotchiness will do nothing to enhance eight kids drinking shots in a dorm room, or a sweet sixteen, or a bad trip to Fort Lauderdale.&#8221; Mind you, people have been adding filters to their photos for awhile—Photobooth is one of the first applications people trend towards whenever they purchase a new Mac. But when you contrast Facebook&#8217;s photo system with Google Plus&#8217;s, for example, the former&#8217;s<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=94958&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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	<primary_category>Facebook</primary_category><primary_category_link>http://techland.time.com/category/companies-2/facebook/</primary_category_link>
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		<title>Facebook Tops One Trillion Hits Per Month, Wins Internet</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/25/facebook-tops-one-trillion-hits-per-month-wins-internet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Graeme McMillan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=94954</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Internet now belongs to Facebook, apparently. According to figures released for web traffic in June 2011, Facebook hit one trillion page views that month, with 870 million unique visitors for the same period, giving the site a staggering 46.9% reach among all web surfers. (MORE: Facebook Comments Make Websites Smarter, More Polite) Strangely enough, those 870 million visitors are around 120 million greater than the Facebook&#8217;s reported total number of registered users. The discrepancy may be down to non-Facebook members visiting the site from other social media links or through search engine traffic. After Facebook, the next most popular site is YouTube, which has only one-tenth of the page views, but matches 90% of Facebook&#8217;s unique visitors for the same time period, giving it a respectable 42.6% reach among web users. All Google needs to do is work out some way to lure YouTube users to its fledgling Google+ service (still invite-only, and in beta) and it may finally become the Facebook killer it clearly wants to be. MORE: Is Google+ Momentum Slowing? Report Says Visitors Spent Less Time on Site Graeme McMillan is a reporter at TIME. Find him on Twitter at @Graemem or on Facebook at Facebook/Graeme.McMillan. You can also continue the discussion on TIME’s Facebook page and on Twitter at @TIME.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=94954&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Facebook&#8217;s New Privacy Features Won&#8217;t Bury Google+</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/25/why-facebooks-new-privacy-features-wont-bury-google/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://techland.time.com/?p=94783</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kudos to Facebook for introducing a bunch of new privacy controls. Users may now review tagged photos, easily control who sees each post and change who sees a post after it&#8217;s gone live. Facebook has also cleaned up the way privacy options are displayed in several areas of the site. Although Facebook claims these privacy changes have been in the pipeline for a while, they still seem like a direct response to Google+. Central to Google&#8217;s social network is the ability to control who sees what, thanks to the &#8220;social circles&#8221; that let users sort their contacts into groups. The title of Facebook&#8217;s blog post on the new changes is &#8220;Making It Easier to Share With Who You Want,&#8221; which is essentially what Google set out to do with Google+. Eventually, sharing options will be extended to include any groups you&#8217;re in, becoming a lot like the social circle controls in Google+. (MORE: Why Google+ Shouldn&#8217;t Be Chasing Celebrities) But Facebook&#8217;s latest privacy overhaul doesn&#8217;t spell doom for Google&#8217;s social network. That&#8217;s partly because Google+ got off to a good start, with more than 20 million people signing on in the first 21 days, according to ComScore. More importantly—and I know I&#8217;m being a broken record—it&#8217;s because Google&#8217;s other services, such as Gmail, YouTube and Google Docs, will potentially allow Google+ to become useful in ways Facebook is not. Google&#8217;s plan is to make those services better through the integration of social circles. Yesterday, the company rolled out the ability to share links with specific circles through the +1 button. In the future, I speculate that users will be able to limit YouTube video access to a specific group of friends or quickly share a spreadsheet with only their co-workers. Even if you don&#8217;t use Google+ now, you may eventually be drawn to the network through its integration with other Google products. In fairness, Facebook has its own hooks into other web services. Partner sites like Yelp and Rotten Tomatoes show reviews written by friends, Skype lets you dial people from<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=94783&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meet &#8216;Lift&#8217;, the New Social Network from Twitter&#8217;s Founders</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/24/meet-lift-the-new-social-network-from-twitters-founders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Peckham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t look now, there&#8217;s another social network lurking, and with Twitter&#8217;s best and brightest pulling the strings, it already has all the proper buzz-wordy tags. &#8220;Interesting,&#8221; check. &#8220;Unlocking human potential,&#8221; check. &#8220;Positive reinforcement,&#8221; check and—wait a second, positive reinforcement? What are we, a Pavlovian experiment? Don&#8217;t answer that, though I gather Twitter mucky-muck Biz Stone (and cohorts) plan to soon enough. Stone just dropped a bloggy tease on his web media incubator The Obvious Corporation&#8217;s site titled &#8220;Unlocking Potential&#8221; about what sure sounds like a new social networking thingamajig dubbed &#8220;Lift.&#8221; (LIST: 10 Ways Twitter Will Change American Business) Oh they&#8217;re not actually calling it a social network yet. That&#8217;d be too—wait for it—obvious. In fact Stone&#8217;s appeal to readers is more of a folksy &#8220;it&#8217;s important never to delude ourselves into thinking that technology changes the world&#8221; (pretty sure we&#8217;re all aware HAL, Shodan and GLaDOS are fictional entities, guys). It apparently looks a lot like Twitter, too, only &#8220;with more structure.&#8221; That&#8217;s according to ReadWriteWeb, which traced Lift back to something called Mibbles just a few weeks ago (that project&#8217;s site, GetMibbles.com, now automatically redirects viewers to lift.do). The plan with Mibbles was apparently to allow people to track their daily goals and accomplishments with friends and sort of collectively chart everyone&#8217;s progress. &#8220;We’re both interested in ways new technology can help unlock human potential, especially through the use of positive reinforcement,&#8221; writes Lift co-founder Tony Stubblebine in a post echoing Stone&#8217;s at Stubbleblog. &#8220;We do have a prototype, but we’re a long way from opening the doors.&#8221; That prototype&#8217;s in &#8220;private Alpha,&#8221; and you can sign up to potentially have a gander by visiting lift.do, where you&#8217;ll discover—surprise!—an actual lift (or as we say in the U.S., an elevator—&#8221;lift&#8221; would be the British term) with an upturned dirigible (or zeppelin) crossing the doors, which, you have to admit, aren&#8217;t very well put together, what with all that mysterious light leaking through. What&#8217;s on the other side, Katy Perry&#8217;s sequined dress? MORE: Two Minute Video: Google+ vs. Facebook and Twitter Matt<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=94698&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Google+ Posts Creep into Gmail</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/23/google-plus-posts-in-gmail/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jared Newman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slowly, Google+ is working its way into other Google services. Earlier today we reported on the ability to start Google+ hangouts directly from YouTube, and now Gmail is getting the Google+ treatment. If the sender of an e-mail has shared any Google+ posts with you, a link to the most recent post will appear in Gmail&#8217;s &#8220;people widget.&#8221; The widget appears just to the right of the main e-mail window, showing a thumbnail image of the contact, recent messages and other contact options in addition to the new Google+ shared posts. (MORE: Google+ Is Everything Facebook Should Be) This is a very small step for Google+ integration—if none of your contacts have shared a post directly with you, you won&#8217;t notice any changes—but it&#8217;s just the beginning. The Gmail team hasn&#8217;t said what its other plans are for Google+, but I&#8217;m guessing we&#8217;ll eventually see more Google+ posts within Gmail and the ability to reply to Google+ posts directly from Gmail. Tight integration with other Google services will be the key to success for Google+, because those services (Gmail, search, YouTube, Docs and so on) are already popular. Google+, with its &#8220;social circles&#8221; that let you control who sees what, could provide powerful sharing options. It&#8217;s safe to assume that tight Facebook integration will never come to those Google services, giving Google+ the upper hand. If you don&#8217;t like all this extra clutter in Gmail, you can disable the people widget in mail settings, or you can install browser extension such as Minimalist for Gmail. MORE: Why Google+ Shouldn&#8217;t Be Chasing Celebrities<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=94526&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As Rebels Close In On Gaddafi, Libya&#8217;s Internet Flickers Back to Life</title>
		<link>http://techland.time.com/2011/08/22/as-rebels-close-in-on-gaddafi-libyas-internet-flickers-back-to-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erica Ho</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late Saturday, somewhere in Libya, a blinking light on a wireless router began to pulsate. It was the first time that most of Libya&#8217;s citizens were being connected to the rest of the world since Internet access had been killed in March. Over the weekend, data connections began to trickle in and out as the rebels gained on Tripoli. Far from being fully restored, Libya&#8217;s Internet shows the tale of a persistent force of rebels, bent on completely removing Muammar Gaddafi from power and making their voices heard. Just as Internet connectivity was regained Saturday, it disappeared again. There is not much known about exactly what happened during its disappearance, but after several hours, one of Libya&#8217;s Internet service providers, Libya Telecommunications &#38; Technology (LTT), regained service. It reappeared, with an ominously scrawling news flash, reading, according to Internet security firm Renesys, &#8220;Congratulations, Libya, on emancipation from the rule of the tyrant.&#8221; (PHOTOS: The Rule of Libya&#8217;s Colonel Gaddafi) While a few people can still access the Internet normally, Renesys says by large it has not been fully functional to most of the Libyan public for quite some time. Depending on where civilians live, Internet access has &#8220;been largely blocked for the last three to five months&#8221; in Libya. For the vast majority of residents, the only way to connect to the outside world is through a satellite phone or an international dial-up connection – which are slow, expensive, and not viable, everyday solutions. The news was being reported late Saturday, as Libyan groups discussed the change through Twitter. One Libyan resident tweeted, &#8220;Can confirm Internet is on in #Tripoli. Not sure what the catch is,&#8221; expressing some trepidation about the stability of the situation. Jim Cowes, the chief technology officer of Renesys, posted on the company blog that &#8220;…It became apparent from the Libyan Twitterstream over the last couple days that things were about to heat up in Tripoli.&#8221; (MORE: How Libyan Rebels Built Their Own Cellphone Network) In late January of this year, Egyptian authorities turned off the<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techland.time.com&#038;blog=5290478&#038;post=94336&#038;subd=timenerdworld&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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