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It has been argued by many in the digerati that Twitter is the new worldwide, omniscient, democratic news authority. It’s the AP, CNN, and NY Times rolled into one, minus the biased filters. It’s information nirvana, and that spells doom for the aforementioned Main Stream Media.
Wrong.
The US Airways flight 1549 story is a [...]

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For some reason there is a meme going around that Google is a “natural monopoly,” but no one has made a convincing case on why that is. Henry Blodget compares them to Microsoft’s natural monopoly in operating systems, but never supports this claim. He simply states that they “should continue to appraoch…” [...]

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Twitter, an absolute obsession, nay, a way of life for some, is not even on the radar for many people outside Silicon Valley. The root of this lies in the fact that Silicon Valley is the first to know about new technology, either by word of mouth or by targeting of PR and marketing [...]

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Mobile social networking has had more false starts than most “next wave” technologies, with the mild successes of dodgeball, jaiku, twitter, and LimeJuice. But so far they’ve been a mixed bag. Yes, Jaiku was acquried by Google, which is always cool, but did anyone really use it? And yes, Twitter almost qualifies [...]

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