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    contradicto: What's with the tiny Business Insider link at the bottom of this post? more »
    sfBirdie: Yelp is useful, but you have to read reviews with an open mind - especially in the Bay Area. Many of the 'Yelp Elite' reviewers take the title way to... more »
    DennyCrane: Boutros, Boutros, golly! more »
    raincoaster: The older Yelp gets, the more closely it resembles a cheesy freebie newspaper, the kind with 50-year-old jokes to keep the ad columns apart. The longe... more »
    resipsaloquacious: Henry Blodget? Really? more »
    Shadowlayer: 500M for a "company" nobody outside SF uses or even knows about... Thats it, google just went fucking retarded. more »
    Pope John Peeps II: There's something completely expected, and still totally disturbing about her using a childhood picture of her natural face to represent her now. Cons... more »
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    NathanSt: Girl better find herself some industrial grade moisturizer to get that chapped, abused vajay back into decent shape. more »
    Z und Vielpunkt's chick: I wonder if her brother knows about this. I can see her leaving a baby in a wrapped box with air holes cut out of it under the tree on Christmas morn... more »
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    CumaeanSibyl: A lot of times, when something that awful happens, it doesn't sink in all at once. You're numb, and your first instinct is to keep doing the things yo... more »
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    How Google CEO's 'Ex' Girlfriend Keeps Tabs on Him

    Eric Schmidt's rekindled relationship with sometime girlfriend Marcy Simon may be heading into another season: After a summer of hanging out and an autumn jet ride, they've been spotted again this winter. And Simon's keeping a close eye on Schmidt. More »
  • #shutuptwitter

    Twittered Toddler Death Immediately Converted into Flame War

    Shellie Ross lost her two-year-old child when he drowned in the family swimming pool. She tweeted about the incident, hoping for emotional support. How do you think that went? More »
  • #shutuptwitter

    How a Fake Twitter Death Report Tragically Came True

    Last night on Twitter, someone impersonating a newspaper writer falsely reported the death of football player Chris Henry. Henry died about 12 hours later, according to news reports, finally making one of Twitter's many fake stories come true. More »
  • #yourprivacyisanillusion

    Facebook Begins 'Privacy' Con

    It would seem our conspiracy theory is coming true: Facebook's big push to give you "more control of your information" is actually an initiative to get you to give up control of your information. Step one: Frame greed as concern. More »
  • #project

    The Laziest Journalists on Twitter

    Reporters everywhere are in love with "crowdsourcing," in which sources magically come to them, saving the reporters several backbreaking telephone calls. But some correspondents have gotten embarrassingly addicted to this journalistic crack cocaine. And it's time for a intervention. More »
  • #reversals

    Eric Schmidt Bullied into Submission Twice in One Day

    It's not everyday you see the CEO of Google eating his words. But Eric Schmidt has made two embarrassing reversals so far today: Admitting he was wrong about Twitter, and admitting he's got a terrible, AOL-user-esque sense of internet fashion. More »
  • #printisdead

    The Disruption Is Coming from Inside the Building

    Layoffs at the fast-shrinking San Francisco Chronicle have freed up a lot of office space in the newspaper's headquarters. So naturally the Chronicle is now subleasing to a guy who severely undercut its business model in the first place. Spooky. More »
  • #conspiracytheories

    Facebook's New 'Privacy' Scheme Smells Like an Anti-Privacy Plot

    Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg issued an open letter to his 350+ million users; you probably saw it this morning when logging in. Facebook will kill regional networks like "New York." Why? To trick you. More »
  • #thewaywelivenow

    Groom Tweets, Changes Facebook Relationship Status from the Altar

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  • #google

    It's Not Just You: Everyone Really Is Talking About Twitter

    Google released its year-end "Google Zeitgeist" search stats, revealing 2009 America to be way less interested in John McCain and Sarah Palin, and way more interested in Twitter, Google.com's fastest-rising search term. So, forget this "Google," where's Twitter Zeitgeist, already?
  • #selfhelpbooks

    Twitter-to-Book Phenomenon Reaches Bottom of the Barrel with Self-Publishing

    Couldn't get a Twitter book deal like Nick Douglas, Twitterature, or business huckster Garyvee? Don't fret! Thanks to TweetBookz you don't even need a deal to see your precious 140-character musings on paper. Congrats! You're an author. More »
  • #theendisnear

    The Return of Pay Per Post and the End of Twitter: Internet as One Long, Subversive Ad

    Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is back. More »
  • #valleyspeak

    Twitter's New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In

    Twitter today announced it will prompt users to post by asking "What's happening?" rather than the old "What are you doing?" We asked a prominent linguist if this means anything. Turns out it does: Twitterers are no longer such loners. More »
  • #cubicleculture

    The Eccentric Office Mrs. Twitter Helped Build

    Weird pictures continue to emerge from Twitter's new San Francisco HQ. But at least now we know where some of the outrĂ© decor is coming from: the CEO's wife, a designer, reportedly helped with the interior. More »
  • #cubicleculture

    The Three Weirdest Things in Twitter's New Office

    Twitter employees have been uploading pictures of their new digs in San Francisco. Looks like the microblogging startup is more concerned with catching up to its rapid growth than with coherent interior decoration. More »
  • #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

    Killing Them Softly: The ______ Is Dead Twitter Meme

    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 »
  • #losergeneratedcontent

    Re-Tweet Redesign Helps the Rich Get Richer on Twitter

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  • #exclusive

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  • #howthingswork

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