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The Truth About E-mail: We Check It All the Time [STATS]

E-mail has invaded every aspect of our lives. We don’t need a survey to tell us as much, but new research from Xobni and Harris Interactive confirms that we’re not alone in dealing with e-mail overload. 2,200 adults 18 and older in the U.S. and U.K were surveyed on their e-mail habits and attitudes. Most respondents — 72% in the U.S, 68% in the U.K
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HOW TO: Respond when Social Media Attacks Your Brand

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. For all the praise that brand advertisers have for social media, they must be aware that it’s very much a double-edged sword. And for all the free marketing, advertising and brand promotion via Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, and other platforms used to help build an identity and relationship with your customers, it can just as quickly turn on you and your brand. Social media disasters occur for a number of reasons, the first being that your company probably messed up
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10 Incredibly Inspirational Moments on YouTube [VIDEOS]

YouTube isn’t just for kittens, cute kids, and confabulating celebrities. It’s also home to some of the most inspiring moments from history ever captured on camera. Here, we’ve selected 10 videos highlighting some of the most amazing scenes that can be witnessed on-demand through the world’s most popular online video platform.
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Cheezburger CEO’s Tweet Gets a Response From Reddit’s Co-Founder

Around this time yesterday, Cheezburger Network CEO Ben Huh publicly offered on Twitter to buy Reddit from publishing company Condé Nast . Reddit Co-Founder Alexis Ohanian responded in a blog post this morning suggesting that all the relevant parties get together and talk… over cheeseburgers. Ohanian, who is no longer directly involved in managing Reddit on a daily basis, actually teased in his blog post’s title that he would respond using only LOLcats (for which Huh’s Cheezburger Network is famous), but he didn’t make good on that promise. Instead, he explained how Reddit ’s ads are restricted to preserve a clean user experience, and how that poses “a difficult monetization problem that hasn’t yet been solved.” You might remember that Reddit called on its users to contribute money in exchange for “gold” memberships when the site struggled to meet the revenue goals set by Condé Nast. Huh offered to give Reddit “more resources and less corporate interference” than Condé Nast.
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Engadget Podcast 210 – 08.27.2010

Do you hear that? It's the sound of Nilay Patel's heavy breathing and ice clinking, but not there. Enjoy it, this week only. Hosts: Joshua Topolsky, Paul Miller Producer: Trent Wolbe Music: Dancing Queen 00:02:29 - Samsung Galaxy Tab gets official teaser video 00:13:28 - Exclusive: Dell Thunder prototype preview (video) 00:13:50 - Exclusive: Samsung Cetus i917 bows for AT&T, shows off its Windows Phone 7 ways 00:13:58 - Exclusive: T-Mobile G2 in the wild! 00:14:05 - T-Mobile G2 again, this time with less Mr.
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Humyo Helps You Upload And Access Files From Anywhere

All computer users want remote access to their files; but remote access requires your computer to stay powered on and have internet access. If you do not want to leave your computer powered on all the time, then uploading your files on the web is the best solution. You could use file hosting websites but that would be impractical as you would have to save separate URLs for each file. There are a few web services out there that let you upload files and keep it organized but almost all do not provide storage capacity more than 1 GB.
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A Brief History of Digg

Just a few months shy of its sixth birthday, social news site Digg has launched its highly anticipated overhaul/redesign . What started as an experiment in the fall of 2004 is now a major online presence with an estimated 40 million monthly users. Kevin Rose’s concept of a user-controlled community that votes to “digg up” what links that they collectively deem important, or “bury” down those of little interest, has been successful in part because of the company’s ability to adapt and add new features.
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AutoRotate Switch Toggles Screen Rotation on Your Android Phone [Downloads]

Android: If you frequently read on your phone while sitting or laying in odd positions, you might find the automatic screen rotation frustrating if you'd prefer to read in portrait mode all the time. Here's how to fix that. More
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Hide the Contacts and Tasks Links (for Good This Time) in the Gmail Sidebar [Annoyances]

When Google updated Contacts in Gmail , they also added prominence to Contacts and Tasks in the sidebar. A lot of people didn't like that, but the button that hid Contacts and Tasks didn't work (a known bug ). Now it does. So if you were particularly annoyed by those links and wish they'd go away forever, just click the minimize button. This time, it should actually stick.
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Google Tests New Feature: Search As You Type [VIDEO]

Google is testing a feature that displays live-updating search results as you type your search query, no keystroke on “Enter” or “Return” required. When you start typing, the search box is relocated to the top of the site. Results are changed to match what you type as you go, kind of like a Firefox page search, Spotlight on the Mac, or Windows 7’s “Search programs and files” field in the start menu. These live search results are not available to the public at large. Google regularly tests new features with very small selections of users
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