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Infographic: Compare Perks and Benefits at Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Other Web Cos.
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When I first started at Yahoo! in 1996, every Friday the company would set out free bagels (a perk about which several friends had to eventually tell me to shut the hell up.) Since then, things have gotten progressively cushier … Continue reading
Facebook Unveils Subscriptions to Compete with Google+ and Twitter
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The Old Way: You send people a friend request on Facebook. If they approve it, you get to see their stream of data. The New Way: You can subscribe to someone – if they've opted in to subscribe. Whether or … Continue reading
The First (Ever) Presidential Twitter Debate!
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Held yesterday, by TheTeaParty.net. Participants in the GOP-only event, as described by Time's Techland blog: Gingrich, former CEO of Godfather's Pizza Herman Cain, Rep. Michele Bachmann, former Sen. Rick Santorum, former Gov. Gary Johnson, and Rep. Thaddeus McCotter all participated … Continue reading
Video: Poet Billy Collins on Social Media, Twitter, and Poetry
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Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins was on our KQED Forum last week to discuss his new anthology, Horoscopes of the Dead. Afterwards, KQED News Interactive Producer Amanda Stupi asked him what he thought, as a poet, of social media. … Continue reading
Animation: The Twitter Tax Break
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Taiwan's Next Media Animation is at it again with this informative video report on the Twitter tax break. Not a bad way to familiarize yourself with the story, actually.
Burning Man to Move Headquarters to Mid-Market; Audio: Larry Harvey, Ed Lee
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Burning Man LLC, which puts on the 50,000-person Burning Man arts festival in the desert every year, is moving its headquarters to the mid-Market area, it was announced today. Combined with the retention of Twitter and not to mention the … Continue reading
Morning Splash: Caltrain to Cut Trains, Stations, Up Fares; Twitter Tax Break; U.S. Shutdown Looms
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Caltrain to halt trains, close stations, raise fares, slow express service (Bay Area News Group) After dire warnings that threatened to cripple the popular commuter train line, Caltrain on Tuesday scrapped the worst of its proposed cutbacks — but will … Continue reading
SF Supervisors Pass Mid-Market Tax Break for Twitter, Other Companies
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For our reporter Rachel Dornhelm's live tweets from the Board of Supervisors, click here. Update 3:13 p.m. KQED's Rachel Dornhelm has tweeted that the legislation passed 8 to 3, with only Supervisors Avalos, Mirkarimi, and Campos voting no. Earlier post … Continue reading
Alice Waters' New Twitter Feed
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Chez Panisse owner and California cuisine-guru Alice Waters launched her very own Twitter feed yesterday. Inside Scoop SF was live at the press conference, held at Twitter itself, in San Francisco, thereby enabling this maxi-mega-meta event: Alice Waters tweeting about … Continue reading
