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Non-Profit Challenges You to Ditch the iPhone for a Day

A non-profit organization called Reboot has a mighty challenge for you this Friday night: Power down your cellphone, let your FarmVille crops languish and sign out of Skype for a full 24 hours. What do you think: Can you hack a single day sans technology? We’re seen efforts of this nature before — remember when John Mayer wanted you to make like a Luddite for the first week of 2010?
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Conan Launches a Twitter Contest for Tour Tickets

If you weren’t able to pick up tickets for Conan O’Brien’s “ Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour ” the first time around, you’ve just been given a second chance by way of a contest the former late night host announced on Twitter. The contest is a promotion for American Express ( disclosure: also a Mashable sponsor ), asking users to follow the credit card company on Twitter and then tweet “Hey @americanexpress I want to be with Coco in (insert city from list below). Pick me! http://bit.ly/bEUqsh #amexConan.” The winners –- who will get two tickets for Conan shows in either New York, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco or Los Angeles — will be selected at random from the tweets sent out between now and 11:59 p.m. ET on Monday
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Niko, the N900-powered Lego robot, looks poised to take over Twitter (video)

While we've seen no shortage of smartphone - powered robots in the past, the Nokia camp has been sadly under-represented. But, there's a new one coming to balance things out, a machine called Niko that has Lego Mindstorm NXT 2.0 components for a body and an N900 for a brain. The bot has been under construction for a few weeks but it has just made its YouTube debut with the short video posted after the break, showing it roving around and taking a photo whenever it bumps into something. When all systems are go and the machine is set free Niko will be posting messages and pictures to Twitter describing its every move in thrilling detail. We can't wait for it to start picking fights with @CourtneyLoveUK
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Twitter Search Results to Show Popular Tweets On Top

Twitter appears set to tweak search results to return the most popular tweets first — instead of the most recent — for any given search query. This according to Twitter Developer Advocate Taylor Singletary, who has just updated the developer Google Group announcing the yet-to-be-released product. Singletary says, “This is a beta project, but an important first step to surface the most popular tweets for users searching Twitter.” The announcement is geared toward developers to prepare them for changes in the search API. The implication, however, is that the appearance of Twitter Search will also be altered to highlight popular tweets. Ultimately, it appears that the revamped search experience will be available on both Twitter.com and third-party applications and clients that move to support it
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4 Easy Ways to Engage Your Facebook Fans

Leyl Master Black is a Managing Director at Sparkpr , one of the world’s top independent PR agencies. Leyl has more than 15 years experience driving high-impact communications programs for emerging technology companies. While more than three million businesses, brands and celebrities have created Facebook Pages, many are struggling to figure out how best to use them. Companies are finding that even when they keep their pages updated with fresh content, they still aren’t seeing steady growth in their fan base. And yet there are many brands who’ve surpassed the one million fan mark, while their peers have languished in the thousands.
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Facebook Warns of New E-mail Scam [ALERT]

Facebook has warned users to “delete e-mails asking you to open an attachment to get a new Facebook password,” in the wake of a new scam making its way around the web. Earlier in the week, security firm McAfee alerted users to such a threat, saying that because of Facebook’s size, the scam “threatens computers worldwide.” In this case, if a user opens the malicious e-mail –- which can appear to come from Facebook as a result of spoofing –- and then the attachment, they’re actually installing a password stealer that McAfee says can “potentially access any username and password combination utilized on that computer.” This scam should be easy to protect yourself from –- after all, Facebook would never send you a new password unprompted, let alone one that requires you to open an attachment. Nonetheless, it’s probably a good idea to warn your less savvy friends and family. Here’s what one of the scam e-mails looks like: Reviews: Facebook Tags: facebook , online security , security
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Congratulations To The Winners Of SyncMate Expert Edition

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which SyncMate Is Giving Away 15 Single User Expert Edition Licenses . We ran the MySql random query and selected these 15 commenter to give them Single User licenses of SyncMate Expert Edition . Chris Rajesh Kanuri @ TechCats Vryuk Kim Evan Andrew Ortwein Adone (Please contact us) Passuf Heather St. Marie Askari Vpap Joanna Nicole Matthias Paulo SyncMate is probably the only sync tool which allows syncing your Mac with multiple devices simultaneously (Windows Mobile devices and Nokia S40 phones, other Mac and PC computers, Google account and online storage, Sony PSP and USB flash drive)
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Digg: The Future of Social News?

Digg this week unveiled plans to become a hub of web content, adding Twitter and Facebook shares to its Digg counts to present a more complete view of what’s popular on the web. What’s more, Digg will soon let you log in with any of your social networking accounts — or even Digg stories without logging in at all. Is Digg defining a new direction for the curation economy? And could the new site help us cope with information overload?
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