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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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Check in on Foursquare Using Your Voice [APPS]

It may not be the most socially acceptable way to check in, but Vlingo has created a way for Android app users to check in on Foursquare with their voices. It’s a speech-to-checkin feature that will save time, even if it does raise a few eyebrows. With the new app , Android users can speak a simple “check in to [insert place name]” command after tapping the home screen button. The command will prompt Vlingo to automatically pull up the location in question, and other nearby venues, on Foursquare, providing users with a fast alternative to touch-based Foursquare checkins.
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Ping Is the Last Nail in the Coffin for MySpace

If I were MySpace , I would be shaking in my boots. Earlier today, Apple launched iTunes 10, the latest rendition of its wildly popular music software. Really though, iTunes 10 is just a vessel for Ping , Apple’s new music-centric social network.
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Gowalla Feature Defines Place Popularity by Experience, Not Checkins

Travelers and city adventurers looking for a better way to harness geolocation data for their own amusement, get ready: Gowalla is releasing a brand new beta feature designed to crowdsource the best a city has to offer. Gowalla Highlights is a web-based product that currently consists of 18 place-based questions that query members about their favorite date night locales, watering holes, spots for people watching or celebrity sightings, etc. The power of the product is in the aggregate. Gowalla users will be able to discover the best places in town, as determined by popular vote, and easily find new coffee spots or bars to try out when visiting a foreign city. The feature itself is both simple and enjoyable to use.
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Facebook’s Latest Patent Targets Search Behaviors

Serving up search results based on what your friends clicked: It’s been a hot topic lately, and one that Facebook has seen fit to claim as its own. The social networking goliath has just won a patent covering a certain type of search algorithm, one that is largely based on the interests and clicks of a user’s friends and friends-of-friends. Specifically, the patent is for “ranking search results based on the frequency of clicks on the search results by members of a social network who are within a predetermined degree of separation.” The patent continues, “Search results, including sponsored links and algorithmic search results, are generated in response to a query and are marked based on frequency of clicks on the search results by members of social network who are within a predetermined degree of separation from the member who submitted the query.
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Nike+ Meets Gowalla in Vail Resorts App for Skiers and Snowboarders

More than just powder will be coating the mountains and chair lifts at Vail Resorts this fall. The Colorado-based company has unveiled a new social gaming app for its 2010-2011 ski and snowboard season that allows visitors to track their activities and share them with their friends and family — all via radio frequency (RF)-enabled chips embedded in their season passes and lift tickets. The app, called EpicMix , is a cross between Nike+ and miCoach , which allow you to track your physical activities, and Gowalla , which rewards users for exploring new areas via its Trips feature.
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Survey Says Facebook Feeds Narcissism [STUDY]

In a rather small survey conducted by a young psychologist, Facebook was shown to have some interesting correlations with self-esteem and narcissism in young adults. In a survey of 100 college students, young people with narcissistic personality traits were shown to exhibit Facebook activity that was distinctly more self-promotional. These people had “About Me” sections that referred to their intelligence and photos that were more about displaying the user’s physical attractiveness than about capturing memories with friends. Narcissism is defined in this study as “a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration and an exaggerated sense of self-importance.” For the average narcissist, Facebook “offers a gateway for hundreds of shallow relationships and emotionally detached communication.” More importantly for this study, social networking in general allows the user a great deal of control over how he or she is presented to and perceived by peers and other users.
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Google Calendar Streamlines Event Scheduling [Scheduling]

Google pushed out a small update to Google Calendar last night, updating the repeating event editor with a more streamlined interface and adding a great new "find a time" feature that helps you and your friends or coworkers find an appointment time that fits everyone's schedule. [ Official Gmail Blog ] More
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Google Simplifies Event Scheduling in Calendar

Google is launching a revamped version of Google Calendar’s event page with a focus on simplicity and coordinating multiple schedules. The updated version of Calendar has already begun rolling out and will be launched to all users by tomorrow, according to Google . It’s sparser and simpler than the previous iteration. More importantly though, it adds several new features for easier scheduling. First, the repeating events interface has been overhauled
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