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Facebook Adds the Ticker Because One News Feed Isn’t Enough

Published on 2011-08-23 23:30:02

Feel like there aren't enough bits of info streaming at you in realtime? Facebook understands. That's why they're starting to roll out their latest feature: the Ticker. The blog All Facebook says the Ticker will appear concurrently with the main feed, with the intention of delivering every status update, like, tag and comment in realtime as they arrive. The Main Feed, meanwhile, will still be for the top posts (which is determined by whatever strange algorithm Facebook is using these days).

Google+’s New "Verified Profiles" Feature:

Published on 2011-08-21 09:17:40

 The new feature gives the network's big names a "verified user" badge next to their name. But... why? It just strikes me as redundant since no one could make a fake account to begin with without being banned. And it's not even clear how a celebrity with a pseudonym would go about getting a profile with their stage/pen name. CNN wrote last month that celebs might have to send a copy of their driver's license to get the new badges. First, it doesn't look like Robin Wauters at TechCrunch di

Preview of Motorola Photon 4G It Is Big and Good.

Published on 2011-08-03 10:21:21

The Photon is a thick and heavy phone. It makes no qualms about this. On the other hand, it's a fast, bright, and powerful phone. The latter's worth it—pretty rare. Basically, the Photon is what the EVO 3D could (and should) have been, had all the stupid 3D crap been stripped away: a big-boned, meat-chewin', 4G-rainbow riding, powerful Android handset. It's got good guts stuffed inside that big black rubberized frame: dual-core Tegra 2 CPU, 16 GB of storage, sitting behind a delightfully br