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Stop the presses! Facebook caves in

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

From Wired magazine’s Epicenter blog comes word that the prayers of hundreds of thousands — possibly millions — of Facebook users have finally been answered: the site will be dropping the much-despised “is” from its status updates. In oth ... Continue reading »

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Rob Hyndman
1 year ago

Rob is very happy to hear that.

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mathewi
1 year ago

Mathew is was happy to hear that too :-)

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leigh
1 year ago

I saw that on the facebook news blog this morning and I remember thinking, christ i hope mathew doesn't link to that story and it ends up on freakin' Techmeme as news...

damn you mathew ingram. damn you.

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mathewi
1 year ago

In fairness to me, I'm pretty sure it was already on there before I
wrote about it :-)

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JoeDuck
1 year ago

[groan] I just wrote about how TechMeme surfaces important tech news. This is news? I is needing a barf bag.

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mathewi
1 year ago

Ok, well it's not always *that* important I guess :-)

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Sujoy
1 year ago

The "is" is back again. See for yourself in my post.

http://techkeyla.blogspot.com/2007/11/facebook-...

Perhaps it wasn't permanent

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