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Textual Profiling?
You can tell a lot about a person by their handwriting—I’m not a licensed graphologist, if there is such a thing, but it’s a cool party trick I do—but characterizing and profiling someone by their text messages? British scientists say sure, and linguistic study of text messages could help in murder cases.
New CNN Show Based on Twitter
We all know that Twitter is a huge hit with so-called "geeks," but it just may get a big push into mainstream society, thanks to CNN. The news broadcaster has already been incorporating "tweets" into reports, and now anchor Rich Sanchez, a faithful Twitter user, has left a tweet indicating that they would be debuting a new Twitter show today called "Rick Sanchez Direct".
Cutts Denies Pressuring Twitter Nofollow
Matt Cutts says his pinging of Twitter cofounder Evan Williams about nofollowing Twitter bio links was more of a heads-up than an imperative straight from the Googleplex.
Electronic Newspaper Reader Debuts
Plastic Logic has launched a new electronic newspaper reader similar to Amazon's Kindle, but it's about the size of a regular piece of copy paper. Like the Kindle, this reader utilizes E-Ink's black and white display technology.
Large Marketing Community Opposes Google-Yahoo Deal
The Association of National Advertisers is pretty important; its members have spent over $100 billion on marketing-related efforts. Unfortunately for Google and Yahoo, the ANA isn't supporting their search advertising deal, and has instead expressed its objections in a letter to the Department of Justice.
