July 2012
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“Good grammar makes good business sense — and not just when it comes to hiring...”
– Kyle Wiens, I Won’t Hire People Who Use Poor Grammar. Here’s Why
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Daily Report: Worries for Facebook in Zynga's... →
stoweboyd:
As goes Zynga, so goes Facebook?
NY Times
Weak second-quarter financial results for Zynga — and worse expectations for the rest of the year — sent its already faltering stock down in after-hours trading Wednesday by more than a third, David Streitfeld and Jenna Wortham report in Thursday’s New York Times.
The unexpected news was seen as boding ill for Facebook, which is closely...
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“Children can’t change their DNA, and now it seems they’re inheriting...”
– Study: 82 percent of kids under 2 have an online presence - CNN (via socialnetworkingnews)
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Twitter: What was the worst tweet of all time? →
Nice read on Quora via @randfish and this one will top them all »
@KennethCole: “Millions are in uproar in #Cairo. Rumor is they heard our new spring collection is now available online”
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“Crippling a digital product with DRM is like selling books with some pages...”
– Vijayendra Mohanty, on DRM (Digital rights management), which “is a class of access control technologies that are used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, copyright holders and individuals with the intent to limit the use of digital content and devices after sale. DRM is any technology that...
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Twitter, Hollywood Working on In-Stream Video... →
Twitter, they said, has been actively pitching a select group of advertisers on a video series that would live on Twitter and enable users to participate in real time in some fashion. Twitter declined to comment.
The original series has been described by sources as similar to MTV reality shows The Real World and The Hills; in fact, one of the producers behind The Hills is said to be behind the...
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