By Kelly Faircloth 4/17 8:49am

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Totally, totally innocent... or is it?

Booting Up: Silk Road Founder Unruffled by Bitcoin Ups and Downs

There are now 150 million Snapchats sent every day. Very few of them are sent by people older than 30. [Business Insider]

Facebook is testing ads in your Graph Search, but so far they’re not based on your searches. (So you won’t get an eHarmony ad when you search “ex-girlfriends who I still love.”) [TechCrunch]

The founder of the Silk Road–who goes by the name “Dread Pirate Roberts”–isn’t too worried about Bitcoin booms and busts. “Bitcoin’s foundation, its algorithms and network, don’t change with the exchange rate.” [Forbes]

The New York Times won a Pulitzer for investigating Apple’s business practices. [Pulitzer]

Meanwhile, Funny or Die has released iSteve, its very own movie about Steve Jobs. [Funny or Die]

By Nitasha Tiku 1/16 1:00pm

Private Eyes Are Watching You

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Facebook Graph Search Means You’re Back in the Personal Brand Curation Business

Yesterday, Facebook’s gamble on an Apple-esque press event paid off. The public markets punchline debuted “Graph Search,” a feature that recalled its pre-IPO promise. Some dared to wonder if the world’s largest social network, which can often feel like a steady stream of cross-posts from Twitter and Instagram, found a way to make itself “useful.” 

Through an intuitive search bar, users can easily sort all that data buried in “About” sections or deep the Timeline archives. Yelp can’t tell you which Indian restaurants your friends from India like. And, try as Search Plus Your World might, it wouldn’t be able to help you fill a Google+ circle with librarian friends who also like Beyoncé. Read More

By Kelly Faircloth 1/15 1:55pm

It's Zuck's World We're Just Living In It

Sure, if you're into that kind of thing. (Photo: Screencap)

And the Mystical Magical Product Facebook Announced Was… Search

Today, Facebook hosted a big presser to reveal “what we’re been building.” This prompted breathless speculation but, much to our dismay, the big reveal was not Facebook for cars, introduced by Hasselhoff in full Knight Rider getup. Instead, it was “graph search.” Not to be confused with “web search,” it’s a better way for Facebook to leverage all the personal data you’ve willingly turned over.

Whee? Read More