Word: switching
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...TIME: You're an admirer of John McCain. In 2008, will you switch parties again to support his presidential campaign...
...nature, News Feed is intrusive, and that's what upsets students. It's one thing to casually check out a friend's updated profile between classes. It's another to be unwillingly inundated with each friend's latest Facebook antics. The News Feed does not have an off switch, although users can block or limit non-friends from seeing their profiles, which feed directly into the News Feed. At the very least, the aggrieved students want the option of a News Feed off-switch. Some want Facebook to do away with it completely...
...Thank you very much. But politics is ultimately a game of logistics, and the junior Senator is putting the machinery in place for a campaign that looks far grander than a re-election cakewalk in New York. All it will need is for someone to throw the switch. Against virtually nonexistent opposition for her Senate seat, she is raising money as though she were in the fight of her life, bringing in more than $33 million. What's left over--which might easily be $10 million or more--could be the seed money for a presidential campaign...
...Rotorhaus, created by German designer Luigi Colani. A single-model prototype, the Rotorhaus features a rotating central unit containing a bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. It allows the occupant to relax in the fixed living room and bring the desired room into place with the flick of a switch...
...this so-called social news users, rather than a computer algorithm, determine how important or interesting the stories are, and Digg posts them on its home page accordingly. The articles are tagged with the number of "diggs," or positive votes, from readers. Click on "Switch to Cloud View" in "Upcoming Stories" to see which stories are gaining traction (the headlines appear bigger). And don't miss the new Digg Labs page, offering two visual alternatives to displaying the same info: Swarm http://labs.digg.com/swarm) which looks like a cluster map, and Stack http://labs.digg.com/stack) which resembles more...