World Wide Web

7 Oct 2012

As Pinterest takes the world by storm, Max Chafkin looks at how the website's founders have rewritten the rulebook on the way we browse, shop and share.

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Should old acquaintance be forgot?

23 Sep 2012

As social media platforms swell our circles of friends to unmanageable levels, why are we still so reluctant to let go of defunct relationships, asks Oliver Burkeman.

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The truth hurts

2 Sep 2012

Arguably, WikiLeaks has helped changed the course of history, leaving diplomatic embarrassment and a journalistic goldmine in its wake. Sian Powell looks at the legacy of the whistle blowing...

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In character

11 Nov 2012

Whether they want to take the pulse of the nation or merely shore up a dwindling fanbase, foreign celebrities are jumping on the mainland microblogging bandwagon. Sian Powell and Jie Chen look at...

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Digital Lifestyle: a post-mortem web presence

2 Nov 2012

There are few thoughts creepier than receiving messages from beyond the grave. In older times, when people passed away, relatives and friends would give them loving send-offs and get on with their...

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Digital lifestyle: sports marketing

5 Oct 2012

So explosive has been the impact of social media that sports journalists long ago swapped their little black book of contacts for accounts on micro-blogging websites, and frequently get their...

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Opinion

The last straw for Terry Wong?

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Alex Lo

We need a sober view of sexual violence

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The dark side of social media

In 2010, Time magazine's prestigious Person of the Year title went to Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook. He was the choice of the magazine's editors, though its readers picked Julian...

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Dissident jailed with evidence from Yahoo HK to be freed, wife says

A dissident whose conviction in 2003 for subversion was based on evidence from United States internet giant Yahoo will be released from a 10-year jail term this week, his wife says.

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62 million users duped by internet shopping cheats

Nearly one-third of online shoppers in the mainland were cheated an average of about 500 yuan in the past year, a Xinhua report said yesterday.

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Issues, not personalities, stir net users to action

The theme of a protest matters more to the online community than the political personalities behind the rallies, a study has found. Internet users tend to trust online media more than traditional...

11:10PM

Power down

I surrender: I have reached overload, the point where my online, virtual life is taking up so much time that it is affecting what I do in the physical world.

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It's party time, even for zombies!

This week's top 10 album downloads on iTunes

1 The Soul Sessions, Vol 2 (Deluxe Edition), Joss Stone (pictured)

2 Underwater, Joshua Radin

3 Uncaged, Zac...

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