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• 20.03.2012 Posted by Donna
  Are visual resumes the new LinkedIn?
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There’s a reason LinkedIn is as successful as it is with more than 150 million accounts and two new ones created every second. It serves the need to separate our personal lives with our professional ones. While LinkedIn has been largely unchallenged as the more serious and subdued ‘professional network’ (as opposed to seemingly more frivolous offerings of Facebook or Twitter), there’s now ResumUP – a site that turns your online profile into a visual resume.

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• 13.03.2012 Posted by Paul
  Real-time tweets from the Titanic
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April 15, 2012 is the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic.  To recognise the event, The History Press opened a Twitter account (@TitanicRealTime) that tweets up-to-the-minute experiences as if it were 1912.

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• 02.03.2012 Posted by Donna
  This is not a conspiracy theory
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A year ago, New York based filmmaker Kirby Ferguson uploaded the first part of his 4-part web series, Everything is a Remix detailing the story of how everything from music to technology is built upon everything else that had come before it. Led Zeppelin were called rip-offs when they first started playing together and Bob Dylan’s first album included only cover songs. The last part of the series was uploaded only 2 weeks ago and outlines how our current legal system doesn’t accommodate this process of creativity, pertinent considering the recent SOPA and PIPA controversy sweeping the internet.

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• 03.02.2012 Posted by Donna
  Hangout with Obama
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When the White House joined Google +, we knew something was up. And lo and behold, a week later, it was announced that President Obama would be holding his very own Hangout or the first “completely virtual interview from The White House.”

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• 28.10.2011 Posted by Donna
  Dare to take this lollipop?
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With internet privacy becoming an increasing concern not only for parents of children who use social networks but everyone who has ever posted anything on the internet, EVER, it is no surprise that something like Take This Lollipop has come about.

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• 30.08.2011 Posted by Sunchi
  The online you is the real you
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You know how everyone grows up following their personal-favourite researcher’s work? …Oh, that’s not normal? Hmm, well this guy is ours anyway…

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• 26.08.2011 Posted by Lauren
  IKEA’s ‘Happy To Bed’
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IKEA’s new ‘Happy To Bed‘, interactive showroom, uses your Facebook profile to design the “perfect” bedroom for you. Kind of, anyway. Definitely worth checking out…

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• 15.08.2011 Posted by Lauren
  Rent-a-bud
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Pal Locate is a website that allows you to locate and rent “friends”.

Personally, this creeps me out. I mean, define “friend”. Would he come shopping with me? Would he laugh at my jokes? Or would he just hover in my shadow… gently exhaling on the back of my neck?

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• 12.08.2011 Posted by Sunchi
  FOMO? Not in Toronto.
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Sometimes, when visiting a city you’ve never been to, you can’t shake the feeling that you’re missing out on something. All you want to know is where the locals are heading, but of course, it’s never easy finding out. This new campaign for Toronto Tourism makes us think it should become standard issue for the world-over.

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• 25.07.2011 Posted by admin
  5 Reasons to Join Google+ (by someone who knows very little about Google+)
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Is this the new Facebook? Perhaps.

Here’s 5 reasons to join Google+ (by someone who knows very little about Google+)

1. Your profile design is the same as everyone else’s. Which is awesome, because, lets face it— individual aesthetic expression is so My Space.

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