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The Action Movie Blog Post

Sometimes even Generation Realtime doesn't need a second screen because they just can't quite tear their eyes off of the first screen. Helen Sloan/HBO hide caption

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Opinion

Commentary

The Action Movie Blog Post

We're all on overload and the more we try to resist the more we realize that resistance is futile. It's the information age and your duty — or compulsion — is to stare at the nearest screen. Hopefully you'll get something out of it, and put something into it.

Tuesday

Game Your Facebook Status: The 'Via' Spoof And Your Gullible Friends

A status update's "meta" information, like its source device, can be used to help out a lame joke — or to drive the envy of frustrated early-adopters. NPR hide caption

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Opinion

Social Web

Game Your Facebook Status: The 'Via' Spoof And Your Gullible Friends

Facebook status updates have been blamed for both break-ins and break-ups. Now the "via" feature — which shows the source (device and/or service) of a status update — can let you claim to be communicating from outer space, or via Morse code.

Monday

e-Geaux: Social Networking Without The Social Or The Networking
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Social Web

e-Geaux: Social Networking Without The Social Or The Networking

Make your Facebook friends think you care without the time commitment of leaving a meaningful birthday message or bothering to read their ranting comments.

e-Geaux: Social Networking Without The Social Or The Networking

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Wednesday

Quick-Blog Site Tumblr Takes Off In An Uncertain Marketplace

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Social Web

Quick-Blog Site Tumblr Takes Off In An Uncertain Marketplace

The four-year-old site is helping media outlets like The Huffington Post and The New York Times start tumblogs to better engage readers and even puts together social events so its bloggers can meet. But some analysts think people are eventually going to have to put a limit on the number of online communities they're involved with.

Quick-Blog Site Tumblr Takes Off In An Uncertain Marketplace

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How To Create A Social Media Scrapbook

A screenshot of Alex Schmidt's Memolane album. The reporter, left, and her sister Anita, created an album of images and social media postings from a trip to Paris three years ago. Courtesy of Anita Schmidt hide caption

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Social Web

How To Create A Social Media Scrapbook

A new service called Memolane promises to feed your nostalgia by tapping your social media history. It lets you create a graphic online album using content from Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Last.fm, Vimeo, Foursquare and other outlets.

How To Create A Social Media Scrapbook

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Monday

Ken And Barbie Update Their Status

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Ken And Barbie Update Their Status

After seven years of just being friends, Ken and Barbie have reunited. And as he turns 50, Ken is hard at work tweeting, updating his Facebook page and even using Foursquare to let people know what they're up to.

Ken And Barbie Update Their Status

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Thursday

Friday

Thursday

Connectivity: When Your Phone Talks To Your TV

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Apps

Connectivity: When Your Phone Talks To Your TV

There are more Internet-connected devices than ever before and some of them are talking to one another.

Connectivity: When Your Phone Talks To Your TV

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Wednesday

No Facebook? In India, A New Option For Mobile Users

Boys in a Mumbai slum use their cell phones. An Indian service called GupShup is using simple texting functions to form virtual communities. There are vast stretches of India and elsewhere in the developing world with ample basic cellphone service, but that have yet to access social networking platforms like Facebook and Twitter. Rafiq Maqbool/AP hide caption

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Gadgets & Apps

No Facebook? In India, A New Option For Mobile Users

Not everyone in the world is on Facebook, it just seems that way. Most Indians only have cheap, basic cellphones. But a company in India has figured out a low-tech means of creating a social network for the country's 500 million mobile phone users.

No Facebook? In India, A New Option For Mobile Users

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Friday

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