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Wikipedia losing contributors, to streamline editing
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says the user-generated encyclopedia is losing volunteer contributors, and must simplify its editing procedures.
Originally posted at News - Digital Media
See what's new in Thunderbird
As Thunderbird joins Mozilla's rapid-release program, the e-mail client reorients itself for a new road map. But where's it going? See what the Outlook alternative offers in this new First Look video.
Originally posted at The Download Blog
Twitter revamping mobile site for iPad users
The company is tweaking its mobile twitter.com site using HTML5 to make it more user-friendly for iPad users.
Originally posted at News - Digital Media
How to tweet like a man
Sociolinguistics gives us the keys to more masculine or feminine tweeting. Hint, guys: Google my jeep my ni$$@, http it up, bro. 4 sale. need $.
Originally posted at Crave
Gmail voice calling offering lower international rates
Accessible through Gmail, Google's phone call feature is being rolled out in 38 new languages with cheaper rates across more than 150 countries.
Originally posted at News - Digital Media
Yahoo Mail suffers outage; users react
Mail service was down for many, and affected users took to Twitter to complain. Yahoo now says all's well again, after acknowledging problems for "some users in certain locations."
Originally posted at The Digital Home
Google+ speeds to 25 million users in first month
Growing at around 1 million members per day, Google+ captured 25 million visitors as of July 24, becoming the fastest site to reach that level, according to ComScore.
Originally posted at News - Digital Media
Twitter ready to close the door on old site
Popular microblogging site says it will migrate users still on old home page interface to the redesigned home page this week.
Originally posted at News - Digital Media
Chrome 13 delivers Instant Pages
The latest update to Google Chrome brings the new Instant Pages feature to the stable version of the browser, along with print preview--but not for all.
Originally posted at The Download Blog
Facebook buys digital bookmaker Push Pop Press
Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, but the social network makes it clear that it won't be getting into the book-publishing industry.
Originally posted at The Digital Home
Airbnb revamps policies in response to vandalism
After a customer's home was vandalized by a guest, travel marketplace Airbnb makes a slew of changes to its policies to help guard against future incidents.
Originally posted at News - Digital Media
Firefox could get even more Chrome style
Preliminary designs for the nightly build of Firefox indicate that future versions of the browser could look even more like its Google competitor.
Originally posted at The Download Blog
Square handling $4 million daily in mobile payments
The mobile payments company says that its credit card reader attachment for mobile devices has raised daily transactions by another million since late May.
Originally posted at News - Wireless
Facebook makes it easier to announce pregnancy
Site adds "expecting" option to its family member section--replete with anticipated date of birth and baby name--which is then published in the member's news feed.
Originally posted at News - Health Tech
A tale of Facebook woe: Nobody 'Likes' me anymore
A technical glitch disconnects a CNET editor from all the people who "Like" her, leading her to ponder what it even means to be "Liked" in the first place.
Originally posted at Crave
Security firm warns of new Twitter threat
Compromised Twitter accounts are being used to scam people into signing up for a "make money fast" Web site, security firm Sophos says.
Originally posted at The Digital Home
Google Plus plots demise of private profiles
Google had warned that it planned to start deleting Google+ profiles that had not been made public sometime after yesterday, July 31. It's unclear whether this has started happening yet.
Originally posted at News - Digital Media
Google+ to delete private profiles starting yesterday
Google had said it planned to start deleting Google+ profiles that had not been made public beginning sometime after yesterday, July 31. It's unclear whether this has started happening yet.
Originally posted at News - Digital Media
