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...This new status-update field sounds like a self-conscious Carrie Bradshaw type who asks her boyfriend what he's thinking every time he's silent for more than five minutes. "I don't even know how to fill it in," Katie Tichacek says of the revised update box. An active Facebook user, Tichacek describes herself as "totally a status person - I like a quick and dirty read-through of what people are doing." Until yesterday, she was changing her status regularly with updates about what she was eating, reading or working on or where she was traveling - but with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook Wants to Read Your Mind | 3/13/2009 | See Source »

Facebook is in the process of rolling out a new home page - one that combines photos, links, videos and status updates and puts them in one big stream of information. I don't have the new layout yet, but a number of my friends do, and my news feed is suddenly full of frowny emoticons and questions like "What happened to Facebook?!?" (Read "25 More Things I Didn't Want to Know About You on Facebook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook Wants to Read Your Mind | 3/13/2009 | See Source »

...home page looks similar to the current one, but the biggest change is to the question prompting users to post status updates. Whereas the outgoing Facebook asks, 'What are you doing right now?' the incoming version asks, 'What is on your mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook Wants to Read Your Mind | 3/13/2009 | See Source »

...status-update formula was simple, declarative: "Claire is working," "Claire is hungry," "Claire is unable to finish this article, so she is procrastinating by checking Facebook." But if I'm hungry and you ask me what's on my mind, what do I say? Do I just type "doughnuts" into the field? Then everyone I know will just see the update "Claire doughnuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook Wants to Read Your Mind | 3/13/2009 | See Source »

...position regarding its statehood. Serbia continues to claim that Kosovo is still part of Serbia, and the refusal of Russia as well as many other countries, including five European Union member states, to recognize Kosovo’s independence has contributed to international ambiguity regarding Kosovo’s status. The conflict is not limited to the diplomatic sphere; last year, when the United States officially recognized Kosovo’s independence, riots broke out in Belgrade, the Serbian capital, and in Kosovo itself ethnic tensions between Serbians and ethnic Albanians are still rife...

Author: By Ellen C. Bryson | Title: Give the Balkans a Chance | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

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