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I don't know if I totally understand this article, but it sounds scary. I can't work in Web media without having first-hand experience with social networking sites, yet I HATE any information on me to be truly public.

Quoted: One of the most anticipated days in the history of social networking site Facebook has finally come: the company announced today that it has begun making status messages, photos and videos visible to the public at large by default instead of being visible only to a user's approved friends.

restaurants they mentioned on the show.
- Cactus
- Cafe Flora
- Dinette
- Lark Restaurant
- Txori
- Volterra

Quoted: Join Rachael on vacation as she explores the neighborhoods of Seattle. With trips to Queen Anne ,Easy Street Records,Madison Park,lunch at Cactus a snack at Lark and dinner at Volterra.

In /The Tipping Point/, Malcolm Gladwell argues a tiny minority of unusually informed, persuasive, well-connected influentials drive trends. The idea sounds intuitive and compelling—we think we see it happening all the time—but it's wrong. Think about it: these charismatic individuals would need to drive the meme beyond two degrees of separation, through people they don't know.

Instead, trends take root when a sufficient number of open-minded adopters propagate the meme in chain reaction, depending more on prevailing culture than key opinion leaders.

Too much uninformed skepticism does our economy no good. This in part seems to be Rochester's problem. Even as a freshman in college, my friends and i noted how Rochester seemed years, even decades, behind in smart worthy trends.

Update: this Harvard Business School Review article is now hidden behind a paywall. At http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?ml_action=get-article&articleID=R0702A&ml_subscriber=true is a synopsis.

Quoted: In the spirit of Guy Kawasaki's Truemors experiment, we challenged ourselves to create a social networking iPhone app - from concept to development to distribution - in 30 days. This includes coding the servers, clients, spatial implementation (PhotoKast is an LBS app), etc. This document is a combination of what we have learned over the last four years in mobile development, and how that was applied to the making of PhotoKast.

The dark underbelly of why people use Facebook ...

Quoted: Seven lies we tell ourselves about social networking.

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Quoted: Crime Digest, April 1, 2008 (The Union-Recorder)Reports from the Milledgeville Police Department and Baldwin County Sheriff's Office for the day. LAURA ORTIZ: New in your neighborhood (Detroit Free Press)Project: Avalon Meadows, 62 two-bedroom, two-bath ranch condominiums that are 1,600 square feet and base priced from $214,900. Place: Sterling Heights