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After four months in a lockout, the NBA rejected the NBA Players Association’s latest proposal Monday — and decided to completely disband the union. The players now face an antitrust lawsuit and the possibility of losing the 2011-12 NBA season altogether. According to the...Twitter Can Predict Who...
Political candidates do better in the polls when they gain more Twitter followers, new research reveals. National polls happen all the time but it’s possible to predict when certain candidates will climb in the rankings based the rate they are followed. Zach Green, CEO of Twitter...
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Brands are increasingly turning to Facebook both as a place to advertise and as a complementary platform by which to build their online presence — and begin conducting social commerce. There are a number of solutions, for example, that allow big and small operations alike to...
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Flying a helicopter is just slightly less difficult than building one from scratch. Didn’t stop these guys from giving it a shot—both in the building and the flying. Our friends at Oobject. com have assembled nine of the best homemade whirley-birds. More » See...Real-Time World War II ...
A 24-year-old Oxford history graduate is doing something wonderful for all of you right now: narrate World War II in Twitter, in real time. It may not be as academic as a John Keegan book, but so far it’s excellent. More » See the original post here: Real-Time World...How Hashtagging the Web...
Laura Larsell is the information ontologist at Trapit , a content discovery, personalization and curation platform currently in beta. Laura holds an M.A. in library sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. I rolled my eyes when the Library of Congress announced in the spring of...Twitter Ordered to Give...
A federal judge on Thursday ordered Twitter to give up information about three account holders under investigation for possible connections to WikiLeaks. The decision rejected an appeal by the three account holders that argued their IP addresses should be considered private. Those...