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Lady Gaga Creates Prayer Bracelet to Benefit Disaster Relief in Japan

Hours after the world learned the shocking news about Japan's 8.9 quake and 10-meter tsunami, Lady Gaga launched a movement on Twitter to raise relief funds. The singer has designed a white and red wristband for fans to purchase in her official online store, according to MTV News, and she says all sales proceeds will...

Twitter Watch: Kanye West Finally Joins, But So Do Cyber Scammers

(July 29) -- This week, there are two new things to Twitter that users should be on the lookout for: Kanye West and many more cyber criminals. Surge Desk briefly examines each. Disclaimer: This involves more than 140 characters. 1. Cyber Criminals According to a study conducted by Barracuda Labs, the rapid growth of...

Obama, Hitler and Lenin Share New Tea Party Billboard

(July 13) -- Look, up in the sky: It's Hitler, it's that guy who came before Stalin, it's Obama the socialist! At least that's the scene set by a controversial new roadside billboard in rural Iowa that puts the president literally right in the middle of two of history's most infamous totalitarian leaders, Adolf Hitler and...

Opinion: A Criminal Oversight in College Background Checks

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(July 13) -- Posting a scandalous photo on Facebook could get you rejected from the college of your choice. But there's a good chance a rape conviction won't. Only 4 percent of colleges conduct criminal background checks on students, and 36 percent of schools don't even require self-disclosure of crimes, according to a...

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The Role (and Future) of Social Reputation

We find our homes on Craigslist , score our most treasured items with eBay , send gifts via Amazon , and order dinner through GrubHub.

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Douglas Crets: You Want Disrupt With That? Why New York is Good for Silicon Valley Tech

New York City. City that has beaten the pants off of me.

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Pew: 8% Of U.S. Online Adults Now Use Twitter Daily

According to the latest data from the Pew Internet & American Life project , 15% of online adults in the U.S. now say that they have used Twitter in the past and 8% told Pew that they do so on a typical day.

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Pew: 8% Of U.S. Online Adults Now Use Twitter Daily

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The News Dissector's Blogothon

"Some time ago, in the last century and in what now seems like a personal universe that is far, far away," veteran newsman Danny Schechter writes in the foreword to his newest book, "I was dubbed "The News Dissector." The "Nom de Media Guerre," as Schechter puts it, gave his "compulsive media addiction a vocational role,...

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05/31/12 Report: Chatwing Introduces Web Chat Tool for Ajax... Source: PRWeb Cambridge, MA (PRWEB) May 31, 2012 Ajax is one of the best and highly-needed programming languages in the Internet today.
05/31/12 Manusis Technologies Releases Mobile Application to... Source: PRWeb (PRWEB) May 31, 2012 Manusis Technologies, the leading web and mobile development company in India, has expanded its mobile portfolio with the release of Tweetwood mobile app.
05/31/12 Brewers' catcher Lucroy: My wife is getting hate mail... Source: The How-To Travel Guru - CBS News (CBS News) Brewers catcher Jonathan Lucroy will undergo surgery today to put a pin in his broken right hand - but it's his wife who is really feeling the pain.
05/31/12 Nordstrom in online collaboration with GQ magazine Source: DSN Retailing Today Nordstrom and GQ, the popular men's general interest magazine, announced a multimedia strategy designed to integrate GQ editorial into the Nordstrom online shopping experience.
05/31/12 Facebook Falls on Concern for Growth: San Francisco... Source: Bloomberg.com Facebook Inc. (FB) shares fell for a fourth straight day amid concern that the world's largest social-networking service will struggle to wring profit from its 901 million users.