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I bought four copies of “Twilight,” the first in the hit book series by Stephenie Meyer for each of the girls in my house. I thought it would be great to hear the book talk with all of them reading the same book after hearing so many of my eastern co-workers raving about how much they and their teenage daughters enjoy the series.

As the cashier at the airport bookstore rang me up, she stopped and asked, “Do you realize these are all the same title?” I said, “Sure. I’m looking forward to reading and rereading it several times.” She looked over her glasses at me for the longest time trying to connect those dots until someone standing behind me started giggling.

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I have dozens of feeds I’ve segregated by page using My Yahoo!. The one thing that keeps me using My Yahoo! is that I can filter each feed to show me only content that is X days fresh. I prefer 2 days as a norm. As a result I end up with only recent content on what are still very heavily laden industry dashboards. I love that I can do that with My Yahoo! and have not found this ability anywhere else (except if I made a Y! Pipe for every feed and manually applied a filter but who has the time?).

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Recent change to the family cell phone plan meant new phones. Eldest daughter has taught us that she’s all about the texting and not so much about the calls. She also guided us to the LG eNV phone which has the full keyboard, etc. Perfect for the texting fiend.

A week after getting the phones (one each for mom, dad and daughter), we discovered mom had developed a talent for texting instead of calling. Woo hoo! This from someone who hated having to check her email more than once a week. Since then we’ve become better informed of our daughter’s activities (work, school, play, boys) and she ours.

But last night the there was a change in the life as we knew it as my wife opened up a Facebook account and started reaching out to school chums - all on her own.

That’s pretty kewl.

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The following is a Facebook chat I had with someone who just set up their Facebook account. Their co-workers had insisted they set up an account and they caved. Then the revelations set in:

5:31pm Joe
And you can even chat across Facebook. weeeeee

5:38pm xxxxx
what?
omg
this is weird

5:38pm Joe
kewl eh?

5:38pm xxxxx
interesting…

5:39pm xxxxx
so this whole time i’ve been actually working when i come to work, but everyone else has been playing around on facebook???

5:39pm Joe
pretty much, yeah
you’re probably solely responsible for keeping your company afloat

5:41pm xxxxx
crap

 

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Yahoo! just announced something that I think, if handled properly, may be a huge coup for online news and may also represent print media handing over the reins to their last cash cow to online media.

NEW YORK, Jun 04, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — To help merchants drive footsteps and sales, Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) today announced the launch of the Yahoo! Circular Program, enabling retailers for the first time to deliver personalized newspaper circulars directly to consumers across the Yahoo! network based on their interests.

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