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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

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

Was Sesame Street this current when we were growing up?

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Sesame Street Does an iPod Ad [VIDEO]

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

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

History is littered with good ideas that didn’t work out because they were ahead of their time. Tablet PCs didn’t work out a decade ago, but with technology advances, they’re poised to make a comeback . Microsoft’s local information web site Sidewalk.com was a bust in 1997, but now sites like Yelp and Google Maps offer local information that many people couldn’t fathom living without.

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Facebook Wave: Why Facebook Should Clone Google Wave

Could you find your way home across 3000 miles armed with only Qik, Twitter, Skype and $50? That’s the experiment CBS News weather anchor David Price has just embarked on .

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Can Social Media Take a CBS Anchor 3000 Miles?