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Nokia C5 social smartphone announced

Nokia today unveiled its first phone from the Cseries family | the Nokia C5. Announced as “a smartphone optimized for social networking and sharing”, you could see Facebook status updates directly from the phonebook.
The C5 candybar measuring over 12mm thin and 46mm across (and 112mm high), packs 2.2 inch QVGA display, S60 3rd edition, HSDPA, [...]

Seesmic adds multi-account support for Android

Seesmic, a client for reading status updates across Twitter, Facebook and other services, just launched an update to its Android app that supports multiple accounts.
It also remembers your position in the timeline, so you don’t have to miss incoming tweets. There are a couple other little fixes like auto-correct for spelling errors and the ability [...]

Is Facebook becoming a portal? Now 4th largest source of traffic to news sites

New data from Experian Hitwise suggests that Facebook users are treating it increasingly like a portal — they’re using it as a source of news. Just under a year ago, less than 0.5% of visits to news and media sites came from Facebook, according to Experian Hitwise. Last week, 3.5% of visits to sites in [...]

Psychoanalyze your Twitter lists for vanity and other vices

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Better avoid any Freudian slips on Twitter!
TweetPsych, an app that uses two linguistic analysis algorithms to compare a person’s last 1,000 tweets against the ones in its database, now looks at lists.
The project uses the Regres­sive Imagery Dic­tio­nary, which measures primordial versus conceptual thinking, and the Lin­guis­tic Inquiry and Word Count, which looks for [...]

Peering into MySpace’s collective consciousness with real-time search

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One of the best essays on Internet culture I’ve read in the last couple years is Danah Boyd’s take on viewing class divisions through social networks. She controversially argued that “white flight” was playing out on the Internet, with MySpace becoming a digital ghetto as wealthier, more educated users fled for Facebook. As [...]

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