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Smarter Healthcare: How Social Media is Revolutionizing Your Doctor Visits

Bloggers now have up to 11,000 reasons to disclose when they are being paid to review products. The FTC has updated its Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising for the first time since 1980, and among the changes, a requirement that “bloggers who make an endorsement must disclose the material connections they share with the seller of the product or service.” Fines for violating the new rule will run up to $11,000 per post. Some more details from the FTC’s announcement : “The revised Guides also add new examples to illustrate the long standing principle that “material connections” (sometimes payments or free products) between advertisers and endorsers – connections that consumers would not expect – must be disclosed.

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FTC to Fine Bloggers up to $11,000 for Not Disclosing Payments

A few weeks ago, we learned that Facebook was going to get voice chat . The new feature wasn’t going to be powered by Facebook itself though, but rather through Vivox , a well-known voice chat provider for video games and the Second Life virtual world. Today, Vivox Voice Facebook app has launched in beta

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Facebook Voice Chat App Now Live in Beta

While it might not always be a good idea to connect with your boss on social networks , one advantage of following them on Twitter: it could clue you in to when they’re out of the office. Thus, it’s not too surprising that Scott Adams’ perennial slacker Dilbert conspires with a co-worker to get their boss on Twitter in Sunday’s comic strip.

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Twitter Helps Dilbert Goof Off at Work [Cartoon]

Google build its Internet empire not just on the shoulders of its search engine, but also on the cash cow that is its AdSense advertising program.

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Google Ads Get an iPhone Makeover

If you have a Windows Mobile 6.5 phone – and the only one you can currently find in stores is AT&T Pure , so you probably have that one – you can already download applications in the Windows Marketplace for Mobile.

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Windows Marketplace Goes Live for Windows Mobile 6.5 Phones

The story about Flash on smartphones (or lack thereof) has been dragging on for so long many of you will surely be surprised it wasn’t solved by now, but luckily, we’re getting there. At the MAX conference in Los Angeles Adobe is showing off Flash Player 10.1 for smartphones

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Adobe Flash on Every Phone (Except iPhone)

In a move that will once again lead some to question to longevity of the URL shorteners used to shrink links on sites like Twitter, the popular Cl.igs service has announced on its blog (via CenterNetworks ) that it is shutting down. The service has tens of thousands of users and directs tens of millions of URLs per month. The site’s founder writes: On Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00:00 GMT, the service will stop accepting new short URLs and will stop logging analytics.

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Cli.gs URL Shortener To Shut Down

Digg is set to debut a new iPhone app, according to an interview with the news site’s founder, Kevin Rose. The revelation was somewhat unintentional: video podcasters Arnt Eriksen and Thomas Moen were interviewing Rose during the FOWA conference in London and spotted him playing with the new app. When the pair inquired about the application, Rose replied: “You’re not even supposed to know about that…nobody knows about that”.

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Digg To Launch iPhone App [Video]

Just over a week ago, Twitter announced its fifth round of funding . While not officially disclosed, the recent cash infusion is estimated to be around $100 million . Twitter’s new estimated worth?

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Twitter’s Value: 5 Eye-Popping Stats