Knode attempts to compete with LinkedIn in biotech networking

Knode: The Next Stage of the Internet is About What You Know
Alex E. Weaver, bostinno.com

Pre­dict­ing what’s “next” for the Inter­net can be a lot like surf­ing the web itself: daunt­ing, frus­trat­ing and often point­less. There’s a lot of infor­ma­tion swirling around out there, after all, and peo­ple are inter­act­ing with it in…

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Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing

Tom Wolfe on his sociological approach to writing: This…
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Tom Wolfe on his soci­o­log­i­cal approach to writ­ing:

This atten­tion to sta­tus … start­ed when I was in grad­u­ate school and I was in a pro­gram called Amer­i­can Stud­ies, which was a mix­ture of dif­fer­ent dis­ci­plines but one [in which…

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Measuring debate performance on Twitter

Measuring debate performance on Twitter – POLITICO.com

7 Web Tools Every Start-Up Needs

7 Web Tools Every Start-Up Needs | Inc.com

Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online

Fake Reviews Shadow Brands Selling Online

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Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk

Perhaps The Only Good Thing About Expensive Gas Is The Decrease In Teens Driving Drunk
Mary Beth Quirk, consumerist.com

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Try­ing to think of any rea­son pay­ing more at the pump is a good thing would stump the aver­age con­sumer (thin­ner wal­lets after pay­ing with cash?), but one and pos­si­bly the only good side effect of pricey gas is that i…

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Google+ Goes Looking For Love

Google+ Goes Looking For Love
By Andy Meek, fastcompany.com

Instead of going for the billion-user benchmark recently set by social titan Facebook, Google+ is trying to harness emotion, says Google’s Vic Gundotra.

An inter­view with Google’s senior vice pres­i­dent for engi­neer­ing, Vic Gun­do­tra, about…

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Why Do Britney Spears Fans Use Colon Cleansing Products?

Why Do Britney Spears Fans Use Colon Cleansing Products? Only Facebook Knows
Dave Copeland, readwriteweb.com

An ambi­tious Face­book data-collection effort is turn­ing up unlike­ly pat­terns in mem­bers’ inter­ests. Here’s what that means for online mar­keters – and you.

Ian Lurie, founder and CEO of Inter­net mar­ket­ing agency Por­tent, is look­ing f…

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Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?

Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
Stephen Marche, theatlantic.com

Yvette Vick­ers, a for­mer Play­boy play­mate and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exact­ly how old she was when she died. Accord­ing to the Los…

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Top 20 TED Talks That Can Improve Your Life

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TED 2010 – The LXD (Photo credit: redmaxwell)

Mike Vardy, lifehack.org

TED.com recent­ly released their list of the 20 most-watched TED talks to date, and while they have quite a few of the ones list­ed that can serve to improve your life, there are sev­er­al out there that are on the list at deserve some…

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Top 20 TED Talks That Can Improve Your Life