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Facebook Search Now Displaying Top “Liked” Stories from Across the Web

In today’s world of real-time status updates, search is evolving to account for the social nature of the web. Facebook is pushing forward in this direction with on-site search functionality that now displays search results — for Facebook and web content — based on “Likes” and shares. Facebook appears to have quietly rolled out the beefed-up search offering some time over the past few days; it was first spotted by All Facebook . From the looks of it, Facebook is ranking results based on how users engage with content via its social plugins
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NVIDIA Updates Mobile Lineup with GeForce 400M Series GPUs

Today, NVIDIA announced the GeForce 400M Series, a major addition to its lineup of mobile graphics processing units (GPUs). The 400M series features seven new processors, including the GTX 470M and GTX 460M monsters aimed at “enthusiast users,” as well as the GT 445M, GT 435M, GT 425M, GT 420M and GT 415M, intended for real-world use. If you’re questioning why NVIDIA is releasing five GT GPUs, you’re not alone. While there will likely be a noticeable difference between GT and GTX models, the variations between any two of the GT processors are likely to be minimal. Like all things currently graphics-related (or so it seems), the 400M will support stereoscopic 3D video.
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Our Favorite YouTube Videos This Week: The Secrets Edition

Happy Labor Day weekend, folks! I’m guessing that many of you are heading home this fine Friday to dine and drink with friends and merry relations. Well, you know what happens when you get scads of loved ones together in one room? Dark truths are revealed (that and Aunt Marge’s bald head after she loses her wig limboing at your yearly BBQ). So in honor of all the upcoming unburdening, we’ve made “Secrets” the theme of this week’s YouTube roundup.
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Explore Space with NASA HD for iPad

NASA has just released an iPad version of its official NASA app for iPhone. NASA HD is a free app that lets users view thousands of NASA images, information about current NASA images and videos, as well as live stream NASA TV. The app also includes access to curated topic areas, like “Women in Space,” and to NASA Twitter feeds from around the agency.
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iTunes Ping: The Missing Thing

Apple this week launched Ping , a new social network that runs within the iTunes software. Ping takes the “activity stream” format popularized by Twitter and Facebook and applies it to the music your friends are “talking about, listening to, and downloading”. In theory, this should take us beyond mainstream hits and further down the so-called “long tail” of lesser known artists. It’s here that Ping fails to deliver: The network is currently just another way to follow Lady Gaga
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Social Media Grammar: The “Checkin” Conundrum

Alanna Francis is a SEO Specialist and Grammar Enthusiast at the website design company Blue Fountain Media , where she specializes in e-commerce marketing. She writes for the company’s web design and SEO trends blog and you can follow her on Twitter @AlannaFrancis . We’re thrilled that the Associated Press has recently released an updated set of style rules specifically tailored to web and social media terms. But given how quickly new sites and their accompanying terms gain popularity, it can be difficult to keep up. Such is the case for geolocation services like Facebook Places , Foursquare , Gowalla , and Brightkite
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iTunes Ping’s Latest Problem: Spam

iTunes Ping is apparently full of spam, yet another hiccup in Apple’s road to establishing a legitimate social network. As Sophos notes on its blog, a barrage of spam links are hitting the music-themed social network. Many of these links are to offers promising free iPad, iPhone or iPod touch devices. Apple released iTunes 10 and iTunes Ping earlier this week and the rollout has been a little bit rocky.
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Determine Restaurant Wait Times Before You Leave the House [APPS]

If you’re anything like me (too impatient to boil water), you hate waiting to be seated at restaurants — those blinking, vibrating beeper things really are instruments of the devil, no? Well, The Onion ’s A.V. Club has come up with a solution for you: a crowdsourced iPhone app that lets you know about wait times at local eateries. According to The A.V. Club’s website , the idea was inspired by popular Chicago hot dog maker, Hot Doug.
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Twitter Surpasses 145 Million Registered Users

Buried in last night’s update on skyrocketing mobile usage , Twitter CEO Evan Williams revealed that the company now has more than 145 million registered users. The last time Twitter went on the record with member registrations, it was touting 105 million registered users . That stat came just four months ago, which makes last night’s reveal quite significant and proves that Twitter is adding nearly 300,000 new users per day, as previously disclosed. Of course, mobile plays a huge role in Twitter’s growth. Sixteen percent of new Twitter users now join via mobile device, as opposed to signing up on the web
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The Top 10 Most Watched Web Series, July 2010

Each month, our partner Visible Measures compiles a list of the top 10 most popular web video series , and we share those results with you and provide analysis. Visible Measures tracks views, comments and other data on web video. If you’re looking for some video entertainment to watch online during your lunch break, this chart is a great place to start.
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