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iPhone Owners Have the Most Sex Partners [STUDY]

By admin | Published: August 10, 2010
Dating site OkCupid has completed a study about its users’ smartphones and sexual history and has determined that among people who use smartphones, iPhone users have the most sexual partners, followed by BlackBerry users and finally Android users. OkCupid looked at the data hidden in the images that users uploaded as profile pictures to see which cameras were used to take them — including smartphone cameras. With many of the site’s users also having taken personality tests like “The Dating Persona Test” or “The Slut Test,” which ask for a count of sexual partners, the site was able to cross-reference that data to complete the study. In one approach, the survey sample was restricted to people aged 30. That way, differences in the usual ages of users of one smartphone type or another couldn’t affect the results
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3 Things Facebook Does Very Well

By melissa | Published: June 22, 2010
In recent months, Facebook and its young CEO have received a bevy of criticism from users and press following the company’s decision to automatically opt all users into its Open Graph initiative . In spite of all the ruckus however, Facebook continues to thrive. Web denizens may be financing the next Facebook alternative , but right now the majority of the Facebook population has yet to abandon ship . We stay because it’s hard to leave. It’s hard to leave because Facebook has become a digital repository of everything that matters to us
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What Do @BarackObama and @TechCrunch Followers Have In Common?

By admin | Published: June 16, 2010
At first glance, our Twitter account, @TechCrunch , doesn’t have much in common with @BarackObama ‘s. He’s the President, we are a lowly tech blog. His staff Tweets out quotes from his speeches, we Tweet out links to our stories. He has 5.3 million followers, we have 1.4 million. But according to social media analytics firm Sysomos , both of our followers have the same average authority—2.4 on a scale of 0 to 10.
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Google’s Pac-Man Logo Costs Society $120,483,800 in Productivity

By admin | Published: May 25, 2010
We joked last week when Google changed its logo to a playable game of Pac-Man that the world’s collective productivity would take a sharp plunge, but it turns out that’s exactly what happened. The blog for time management tool RescueTime did the math and determined that Google Pac-Man consumed 4,819,352 hours of time, or $120,483,800 in productivity. The cost was determined by looking at how much time was spent on Google’s homepage the day the Pac-Man logo was up (48 seconds) versus the average amount of time spent on other days (11 seconds) and multiplied by the number of visitors to the site that day (503,703,000).
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Sneak Peek: Twitter’s “Huge Redesign” Is Coming [PIC]

By melissa | Published: April 9, 2010
Now we know for certain: Twitter is working on a major redesign of its web interface. Twitter’s lead designer has just revealed a taste of what’s to come. Doug Bowman , the head of Twitter’s design team, posted a teaser picture displaying the new interface. While it doesn’t reveal much, it does show that the profiles are being overhauled, and so are the stats that are displayed on profiles. As you can see from the image, new stats displayed on profiles include the amount of days you have been on Twitter, the average number of tweets you send per day, and the percentage of @replies recently.
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Toshiba UX600 series: first HDTVs certified Windows 7 compatible

By anthony | Published: April 2, 2010
Here's something you don't see every day: a Windows 7 certified 55-inch TV. Toshiba's 120Hz UX600 series is just such a beast, the first on the market to receive official Microsoft certification thanks in part to DLNA support over Ethernet or WiFi. The logo's a nice touch that takes the guess work out of the purchase equation for the average consumer looking to stream media to the living room. Just don't let us catch any retailers slapping a "Compatible with Windows 7" sticker on the bezel ok; this ain't no Best Buy laptop. Toshiba UX600 series: first HDTVs certified Windows 7 compatible originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:54:00 EST
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MyFinancialAdvice Simplifies Your Hunt for a Financial Advisor [Personal Finance]

By melissa | Published: April 1, 2010
Finding a financial advisor can be tricky—especially for the average person. Web site MyFinancialAdvice aims to help you find one best suited to your needs, depending on subject and level of service, at a reasonable cost. More
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The New YouTube Revealed [PICS]

By anthony | Published: March 31, 2010
Starting today, YouTube will look dramatically different for everyone. That’s because the Google-owned video website will be rolling out its redesign to all users over the next few hours — the rollout should be complete by 7:00 p.m. today. You may have already seen elements of this redesign: The actual interface was revealed two months ago . Since then, though, YouTube has tested, iterated and made changes to the new design.
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5 Amazing Infographics For the Health Conscious

By admin | Published: March 19, 2010
Researching topics such as health, diet, and (especially) the effectiveness of dietary supplements can be hard and time-consuming. Obscured by thousands of marketing tricks, finding the truth takes days, if not weeks of research. So, when someone puts in the time to do the research and create an infographic that makes certain aspects of these topics easy to understand, it can be a huge time saver. Read on for some of the best health-related infographics we’ve found online.
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Social Networking Usage Surges Globally [STATS]

By melissa | Published: March 19, 2010
According to the  Nielsen Company , the global average time spent per person on social networking sites is now nearly five and half hours per month (February 2010 data), with Facebook accounting for the majority of that time. That’s up more than two hours from last year. In arriving at that conclusion, Nielsen measured social network usage per person across 10 countries and compared that to data from the same time last year. When looking at specific countries, Italy tops the charts with social network time per person just under six and a half hours per month (6:27:53), and Australia is a close second (6:02:34)
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