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Product Website Highlight: Acne.org

Many product-selling websites include a lot of Web 2.0 tricks to convince the Internet surfer that the product is worth checking out.  Heck, even Cheerios has a website which includes a flashy splash intro.  Most product sites seem to be nothing more than an excuse to have a site, like a self-fulfilling prophecy of owning a company:

"Well,...

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Tina Fey, twitter, and the Elections

Ok. I admit it.  I never really "dugg" twitter.  While I did tweet for awhile, it was simply a different way for me to update my Facebook status.  I killed two birds (not the cute twitter bird) with one stone.  I guess that composing snappy 140-character or less haikus isn't my cup of tea,...

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Information Overload during the VP Debate?

I was astounded at the amount of different technical venues for the watchers of the debate.  In four years, the Internet has started playing a more vital role in influencing voters' decisions.

Some of the most impressive tools came from an unsurprising source, the website of ‘political giant'...

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Personal Space Not So Personal for High Schoolers

I remember several years ago when Facebook was fresh out of the coding gate, college seniors feared that their employers would look at a certain picture of them at the fraternity mixer holding a can of beer, and that would be the end of their resume.  In those days, Facebook (and some other social networks) was limited to college-aged persons,...

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Aaron Karo: Comedian and Intelligent Social Networker

It really surprises me that more political figures and celebrities have not taken Obama's lead and created functional social networking sites that engage users and allow for not only greater transparency, but also general likeability of its moderator.  Leave it to a standup comedian to design a site capable of doing both of those things....

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