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Aug. 6, 2010, 6 p.m.

Links on Twitter: Google gets Slide, Slate gets Weigel, women get social

The first website went live exactly nineteen years ago today–on August 6th, 1991 http://j.mp/btnerO »

From jetpacks to roboservants: @Wired taps Will Ferrell to guide its "tour of tech that never took off" http://j.mp/a0tSAE »

"As the Slide team joins Google, we’ll be investing even more to make Google services socially aware…" http://j.mp/aHq2RP »

Sourcing, stories, conversation, community–and other merits of "coffeeshop newsrooms" http://j.mp/d8vstX »

Slate launches new blog today, written by @daveweigel http://j.mp/9bm8O9 »

What are Facebook’s social networking patents worth (besides $40 million)? http://j.mp/c04oCz »

In which computers tell the difference between fact and fiction http://j.mp/b2GyZQ (via @on_the_media) http://j.mp/b2GyZQ »

Women spend women 5.5 hours a month on social networking sites; men spend 4 http://j.mp/9UHhkD »

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BREAKING: The ways people hear about big news these days; “into a million pieces,” says source
The New York Times and the Washington Post compete with meme accounts for the chance to be first with a big headline.
In 1924, a magazine ran a contest: “Who is to pay for broadcasting and how?” A century later, we’re still asking the same question
Radio Broadcast received close to a thousand entries to its contest — but ultimately rejected them all.
You’re more likely to believe fake news shared by someone you barely know than by your best friend
“The strength of weak ties” applies to misinformation, too.