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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

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

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

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

Torque 3D is out of beta and officially released to the world.  Torque was one of the first indie affordable game engines and they continue that work at Garage Games with a web enabled Torque 3D output much like the Unity 3D player .  The pipeline is not yet as streamlined as  as Unity 3D as Torque has many legacy formats and components such as DTS models, DIF interiors and DSQ animation files that are specific to the Torque Engine.  But they have added support for COLLADA models and the community is strong for Torque 3D. Also, since Torque 3D is built on an older engine but updated for modern uses, the file formats and loading is streamlined for low poly and web based games that need small asset sizes but still have quality.  Like Unity 3D there are many paths to truly get your game published and available to many platforms from desktop on Windows and Mac to web players in all major browsers. When I initially got into heavier game development in early 2003 there were two major things missing, a web player export and a good editor with intellisense .  Torque 3D provides the web player export and Torsion is a great IDE for TorqueScript beyond using Visual Studio or XCode for C++ source editing.

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Torque 3D Released

Palm Pre owners, rejoice: iTunes sync is working again. Until the next round, that is.

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FIGHT: Palm Pre Restores iTunes Sync, Defies Apple and USB Forum

The following example shows how you can toggle the application control bar in a Spark Application container in Flex 4 by setting the Boolean controlBarVisible property. Full code after the jump.

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Toggling the application control bar in a Spark Application container in Flex 4