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@WinObs Tweeted Links for 02 August 2011

AMD makes progress against Intel in processor market share Source: Neowin.net Microspeak: Dogfood Source: MSDN Blogs Is Newt Gingrich Paying For Thousands Of Fake Twitter Followers? Source: AllTwitter Attention all Windows Phone Developers – Phone Tools, Mango bits, and AppHub have all been updated! Source: MSDN Blogs Gotta Watch: Shark Week! Source: . . .

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@WinObs Tweeted Links for 01 Aug 2011

NASA Invites 150 Lucky Twitter Followers To Launch Of Jupiter-Bound Spacecraft Source: NASA Breaking News Twitter Confirms New New York Office: #TwitterNYC Source: AllTwitter Are you ready to be inspired? Source: Local news for Microsoft in Silicon Valley Leo Laporte – The Tech Guy 792 Source: TWiT.TV Apple Releases New Software Update . . .

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Infographic: The Reach and Impact of Mobile Gaming

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Absolutely no shocker here to find out that mobile gaming has become a huge industry.  Can you imagine earning 1 million dollars a month from ads? Wow.

The mobile entertainment industry was worth $33 billion last year, which is due in part to the success of smartphones like the iPhone and the . . .

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Twitter’s Growth Continues

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I guess this is not a huge surprise to anyone in the tech world that keeps an eye on things like Twitter but today over at the Twitter Blog they posted some stats that shows just how much the social media service continues to grow globally.

In July 2010 they were seeing . . .

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Airbnb Establishes New $50,000 Guarantee for Its User Base

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The CEO of Airbnb, Brian Chesky, has posted a new blog entry today which apologizes for the recent incident with a host in San Francisco who had their place trashed by a Airbnb guest.  It also establishes a new $50K guarantee to protect hosts from similar incidents in the future.

Airbnb Guarantee

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Why I Switched from Foursquare to Facebook Places for Check Ins

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To begin with this is not a post about the merits of sharing your location via social media – it is just a short discussion on how I do it and why I made a change from one resource to another.

One of the features of social media activities that involve checking . . .

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