The Sift 316-320

The Sift 316: Social Media

• Twitter Has 100 Million Monthly Active Users; 50% Log In Every Day
• No, Facebook Is Not Ruining Your Grades
• Hack a Label Printer into a Twitter Hashtag Ticker
• Facebook Friend Count Linked to Brain Density
• Adam Ostrow: After your final status update

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The Sift 317: Space

• NASA Details the Next 25 Years of Space Exploration
• NASA Launches Solar-Powered Twin GRAIL Spacecrafts
• NASA Unveils Plans for the World’s Largest Rocket
• NASA Turns its Space Missions into a Kid-Friendly Video Game
• Virgin Galactic to Charter Suborbital Flights to Space With NASA

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The Sift 318: Advertising, Marketing, News and Media

• New York Times Paywall Helps it Turn a Profit
• How Gamification Can Make News Sites More Engaging
• Style.com Goes Retro, Launches Print Magazine
• Learn more about ads in Gmail
• Google promises 'greater transparency' for targeted ads, gives users more control over them

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The Sift 319: Amazon

• Amazon's Kindle Cloud Reader storms into Firefox on an HTML5 chariot
• Amazon focusing on 'lifetime' Kindle revenue, anticipating record device sales for Q4
• Amazon Embraces HTML5 for New Ebooks
• Siri in the Kindle? Amazon Buys a Voice Recognition Startup
• Amazon Reveals Kindle Fire Apps: Facebook, Netflix, Pandora and More

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The Sift 320: Art, Architecture, Design and Style

• Top 10 finalists in the 2010 Best Illustion of the Year Contest
• Properly Paint a Brick Fireplace
• World's Coolest Offices
• Incredible Decaying Victorian Home Made From 110,000+ LEGO Blocks!
• Dan Phillips: Creative houses from reclaimed stuff

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