What Is a Web 'Riff'? Is a Riff Like a Musical Chord?

Source: About.com: Internet for Beginners

A 'riff' is when you copy or repeat someone else's online text, particularly when you copy someone else's search keywords. For example 'color filter photography examples' is riffed when you use the exact same phrase for your own s ...
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Yahoo’s new search application wants to access all your data

Source: Simply Zesty

It’s easy to forget about Yahoo, but every now and again they come along with a new product or iteration that gets a bit of buzz going around them again. This time they’ve done it with Yahoo Axis – a brand new search experience optimised for the iPhone a ...
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How Mark Zuckerberg Forever Changed the American Wedding

Source: Hacker News

Mark Zuckerberg is no stranger to disrupting industries. In his handful of post-adolescent years, Zuckerberg has turned the global communications industry on its head, disrupting photo, video, advertising, social, search, email and publishing, ju ...
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Editors’ Picks 5/25: Solid, Social Rats

Source: Geekosystem.com

This week in Editors’ Picks: Solid-state drives do you a solid by being awesome. So.cl (pronounced “social”) is Microsoft’s new bizarre social network and proof that you can just arbitrarily decide how things are ...
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Source: this WEEK in TECH

Guess who's buying Opera, Google buys Palm sort of, an 80-inch Windows tablet, and more. AMD nat making "Needlessly Powerful CPUs",I ntel's Going Green, XFX the kings of the midrange GPU, Unreal 4 screenshots, and more. Googarola is a done deal, ...
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New Version of FlipToast Released, Simplifying Social

Source: iStockAnalyst

MINNEAPOLIS, MN -- (Marketwire) -- 05/25/12 -- W3i (www.W3i.com), a leader in monetization and user acquisition solutions for freemium apps, announces a sleek new interface for FlipToast, the app that simplifies social media. This fresh update to ...
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Smarter Than A 5th Grader, Quora, Amazon, Groupon, GifBoom, more on this week’s top 20 emerging Facebook apps by MAU

Source: Inside Facebook

A variety of websites with Facebook logins, as well as games, dominated our list of emerging Facebook apps by monthly active users this week. We define emerging applications as those that ended with between 100,000 and 1 million MAU in the past week. T ...
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New Features That Make Google+ a No Brainer for Business Marketing

Source: Social Media Today

This brings me back to why I’m such a Google+ evangelist. I haven’t seen anything anywhere any time so readily available to anyone and everyone that can help you find and connect to your tribe as powerfully as can G+. Why? It’s because of the unique ...
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Yahoo Axis may be game changer for search and the troubled company

Source: ITWorld.com

May 24, 2012, 4:50 PM — With its new search/browser app Axis, Yahoo is trying to change the search game, while also trying to change its image as a troubled company. Late in the day Wednesday, Yahoo launched Axis, which it ...
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