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The Generation Gap Between My Teeth

August 2, 2010

The gap between my teeth was generational.  I was not yet seven, so I was years away from the tight teeth of my father. He had busied himself for months in our basement building a radio through which he would tap out Morse code night after night, sometimes connecting with a lone signaler several landmasses [...]

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iPhone 4: For Those Salivating, Here’s the Skinny on Eligibility

June 10, 2010

Just got off the iPhone with my friendly AT&T customer service rep. When the new iPhone 4 was announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on Monday, I had to know if I was eligible for the upgrade. The new iPhone 4 comes in two configuration, 16 gig and 32 gig, and is [...]

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The Official Twitter iPhone App Is Here

May 19, 2010

In April, Twitter bought Tweetie and tweaked it. Now they’re releasing it as simply Twitter, the only official Twitter application in the app store. And they dropped the price from $2.99 USD to free. Tweetie fans are already calling it Tweetie 3. Yesterday, Tweetie 2 was removed from the app store, raising speculation that the [...]

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Facebook, Privacy and the Wild Wild Web

May 17, 2010

Facebook recently unveiled several changes to its service that give users more sharing options, but in the process the company demonstrated what many have come to believe is its intentional disregard for user privacy. This mistake feels a lot like Facebook’s February 2009 debacle when the company changed its user agreement in an “all take, [...]

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Facebook Makes Some Surprisingly Bold Changes

April 20, 2010

Facebook has announced some changes that are sure to cause more than a little annoyance among its more than 400 million active users. But based on what we’ve read, it’s a dose of what most users having been asking for. This is how the Associated Press reported it: Facebook is revamping users’ profiles to emphasize [...]

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VIDEO: The Governator Thanks Twitter Followers for Thier Ideas

March 2, 2010

Favorite on-screen moments of the Governator include one in the 1977 documentary “Pumping Iron” where the master employs a little psychology on a young Lou Ferrigno by telling Ferrigno’s coach, who happens to be Ferrigno’s father, that the amateur shouldn’t make so much noise as they work out together in preparation for a competition. Others [...]

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Twitter Rank: How Can Size Not Matter?

February 22, 2010

There has been some discussion among the ranks about Twitter and how to best use it. Of course, there is no consensus. Twitter is a micro-blog with a feature set that gets richer by the day, so it becomes increasingly difficult to place in the same cubicle any two people who are using Twitter the [...]

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What Isn’t Twitter?

February 9, 2010

One thing Twitter isn’t is unpopular. It grew over 1400% from June of 2008 through June of 2009, one of the fastest growing services of all time on the web. And an expanding feature set is attracting even more users to this micro-blogging oddity. Twitter is a lot of things to a lot of people. [...]

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