Man, you know the spammers are getting pretty good when they can manage to spoof the best and brightest. SocialMinder seemed like a good idea - manage all your contacts across all your social network profiles and your email.

So I got an email from Sam Sethi, the ex-TechCrunch UK editor, for whom I have a [...]

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Online ads not the license to print money they were for a while, so the internet is doomed. Right?
In the UK:
Enders, a research group, estimates that the UK online display advertising market was at best flat in the third quarter, compared with the same period last year. Growth rates in recent years have been double [...]

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I’m not sure what to make of this. Got an email notifying me of a new Follower on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/VirtualPodium
Who does VirtualPodium turn out to be?
Turns out it’s a promotion, using the Daily Show/Colbert Report, with cooperation from Viacom in a promotion for Comcast, the cable company so beloved of the 27 million US households [...]

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Seems I’m not the only one suddenly deluged with Twitter spam (20 attempted followers in 48 hrs - which is 18 more than the rest of the time I’ve been on Twitter). Twitter says:
However, spammers are posting links on a whole different scale and they’re doing something else we call Aggressive Following. This behavior entails [...]

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Boy meets phone. Boy loses phone through third party interference, miscommunication and misunderstanding. Boy wins phone back with help from commenter on blog.
A happy ending. Until the sequel.
It’s Mamma Mia!* crossed with WALL-E.
Took Herself to this last night as a — gift, penance, masochistic act? — and I laughed in spite of myself several [...]

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We never thought we’d live to see the day. iPhone porn from former boycott-the-iPhone advocate, Cork’s telecoms entrepreneur supremo Pat Phelan.
The caress of the box. The pauses - oh, the pauses. The tender, delicate removal of each layer of wrapping.
Wow.

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Obama talks to student organisers in Storm Lake, Iowa, September 07
Now that Obama has clinched, a number of long “how he did it” pieces appear today. One of the best is Karen Tumulty’s Time mag piece, with some explanations from Obama himself - showing a pretty detailed (perhaps unsurprisingly so) grasp by him of the [...]

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This case is one particularly horrific example of why Facebook et al have the right idea. No more pseudonyms. You should be as accountable for what you do online as you are standing in front of someone.
A federal indictment accuses Lori Drew, 49, of O’Fallon, Missouri, of using the social networking Web site MySpace.com [...]

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Who says there’s no poetry in Twitter? Their eyes met (over Skype) discussing thoughts about Dreamweaver. Awww. Then he tweeted the question. Awwwww. (h/t Andrew Sullivan)
Or actual twitter poetry. Can it be long before the 140-character tweet an officially accepted form taught in high school English, like a micro-haiku? She tweets poetic quite often. My [...]

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In a Wal-Mart world, shopping at Target is a form of resistance. Seriously.
Genius.

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