I just read a great article reporting the results of a study about how community websites influence people - even when they don’t communicate directly.  As I read this, I realized that the influence is probably more a matter of “herd” mentality.

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Amazing, T-Mobile keeps a large number of people from getting tweets, and the world stops moving for many of them.  I won’t comment on apparent need to get a majority of useless “tweets” everyday.  Like the guy that wants to “tweet” while shopping with his wife… Whether T-Mobile is contractually obligated to provide the “unlimited” service is probably something that could be debated.  However, the fact that T-Mobile has decided that SMS messaging is not something they want to provide, in particular to “short code” messaging, it shows that they see a potential loss of revenue.

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Sleezo - what a name! That just draws all kinds of ideas of what is probably uploaded. This site is a no frills picture/image repository. There isn’t really any way to view the images uploaded, there are no accounts to create, they don’t know who you are. But you can upload any image you have access to.

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I recently starting playing around with Pipes - The Yahoo BETA of RSS mashing. Mashing is a way of aggregating many different sources of information into a single stream of data or information. In the case of Pipes, RSS is not the only thing you can mash!

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