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Last week you might have noticed quite a few websites were completely black or had something blocked out in protest.  This day was held in order to get the attention of people all over the United States in regards to two pieces of legislation that are currently in congress, SOPA and PIPA.  This led many people to ask, "What is SOPA?"  SOPA stands for Stop Online Piracy Act and PIPA is the Protect IP Act.

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What are people doing with Google+ and Facebook right now, you may wonder, several months after Google finally unleashed its formerly top-secret Facebook competition to the public at large.  Thanks to the passage of time and a few well poised surveys, we now have some data that can be used to answer that question.  One set of people previously believed that there wasn't room enough in this social town for two major social networking sites to coexist.  Others insisted Google+ would actually destroy Facebook.  Others still were certain that Google+ would quietly disappear from the radar after...

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Alright, gadget review time!  Well, not really a gadget review.  Instead, we're going to talk about some of the amusing ways you can interact with Siri, the virtual assistant  available to users of the iPhone 4S, Apple's latest upgrade to the popular smart phone.  Although it is still in the early stages of development, there are sites listing a number of conversations you can have with Siri that are quite entertaining indeed. If you ask her "Who's your daddy?", the reply will make you laugh.  And there are plenty of others as well.  She might not be able to arm your adt home security system...

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Content sharing online happens 24 hours a day in all parts of the world, but sharing patterns by content type and receptivity by content consumers can be examined to shed light on the bigger picture of content sharing:  when, where, and how people share content on the Web.  One amazing fact I learned during my research for this article through directv packages and Internet searches was that 9:30 am is the peak time for content sharing across all platforms including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, and Tumblr.

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If you've never heard of searchenginerapbattle.com, you're missing out on some truly entertaining search comedy.  On the website is a series of three videos of rappers representing the three major search engines, Google, Yahoo!, and MSN/Bing, and they are having a throw down rap war to prove which search engine really rules.  It's hilarious, and don't worry -- all the expletives are bleeped out so it's not much of a flowland.

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Do you remember the last day you did not feel well but you were forced to go into work because there were certain applications for reporting that you absolutely had to have that day?  You felt bad, co-workers were terrified to be close to you, and yet you had to finish some things in the office because your work computer holds the key to it all.  These in house applications and operations can sometimes be a serious pain to deal with, especially on days where you would prefer to get some work done from home.  Well, welcome to the cloud.  On the cloud data, applications, and more are not simply...

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When it comes to beautiful and practical design, few computer builders and designers can hope to compare with Apple, Inc. Since its humble beginnings some 35 years ago, Apple has turned out some of the world's most innovative and standards setting products in tech history. Recently, the iconic Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs announced his retirement from the role of CEO, following the lead of his contemporary freinemy, Bill Gates, into the position of Chairman of the Board of the company he started so many years ago.

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Over the past two years, having fan pages, events and groups on Facebook has been highly utilized by brand marketers to have a relatable social setting for current clients to interact and see what's new as well as increase brand awareness and attract fresh interest. With Google+ already reaching 10 million users after a month of being opening up its platform, you can only expect that brand marketers are clamoring to get in on the action, and many people feel that Google+ wouldn't be a complete social media site if it didn't have place, band and brand pages. Google is currently running test sites...

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Why is Google being investigated by the FTC? The FTC is remaining mum on the point, but Google feels that it is for practices involving its search and advertising practices. If this is the fact, the FTC has picked a decidedly significant time. After all, the FTC just finished its investigation of Microsoft. Furthermore, Google is also quickly losing its monopoly as a search engine provider. Bing and Yahoo have seriously cut into the monopoly once held by almost ten percent. Furthermore, Facebook is seriously hurting Google’s bottom line with Facebook searches. Google has opened Google plus in response...

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The internet has become one of the most essential parts of so many people’s everyday lives. People from all over the world and from all walks of life use the internet in some form or another. Students, parents, police officers, and military personnel all use the internet for various reasons. For some, the internet is a powerful research tool that can be used to find information about almost anything. Some people use the internet mainly for entertainment purposes. There are even people who make their entire living online. That’s right, people actually use the internet to work and make money. Entertainment The...

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