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  • #outsourcing

    Indian Kids Work Cheap for Google

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  • #shutuptwitter

    Barack Obama Has Better Things to Do Than Tweet

    You would have been delusional to think that the president didn't use a ghostwriter to update his Twitter account, @BarackObama. Still, it's now been confirmed that he didn't write any of his 418 tweets. Geeks are scandalized. More »
  • #rumors

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    If the New York Times' The Moment blog and its Twitter feed "hear" that Moz is dead, does it actually happen? Former Idolator editor Maura Johnston writes: "This inspired a lot of panicked e-mails to me late last night." Why? More »
  • #facebook

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  • #twitterati

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  • #thewaywelivenow

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  • #mediawars

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