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  • Toronto’s Twitter fakers?

    More than half of the Toronto Star's Twitter followers are either fake or inactive. So while Twitter displays the Star's follower count at around 77,300,...
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  • Kickstarter creation

    First there was Myspace, that mid-00s social network/music streaming site founded by a guy called Tom. Then came iTunes? Or was it Facebook? Or SoundCloud?...
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  • Calling the 1%

    When Apple launched the iPhone 4S in Beijing in January, there were lineups all day and night. So the Apple Store in the Chinese capital's...
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  • Crime reporting, 140 characters at a time

    The shooting Monday night on Scarborough's Danzig Street has left the city searching for answers, but few were available immediately following the public violence. That's...
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  • Scarborough shooting on Twitter

    The shooting last night on Scarborough's Danzig Street has left the city searching for answers, and immediately following the public violence, there are few.[briefbreak] That's...
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  • End the Calgary Stampede’s chuckwagon races

    Three horses died at the Calgary Stampede's chuckwagon race on Thursday. In 2010, six horses died at the Stampede, two of heart attacks. Last year...
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  • Toronto’s open-data Jedi departs

    I felt a great disturbance in the Force last month, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. Toronto...
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  • The new nowtoronto.com

    Welcome to the new and improved nowtoronto.com! This is just a short tour to help you navigate the new site. Here's what's new: PERSONALIZATION When...
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  • Master our domain

    The country code for Colombia is .co, and it's been used by 1.3 million websites in the last year and a half. Look who uses...
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  • Gay+ Pride

    Google the words "gay pride" this week and your search bar displays the colours of the Pride rainbow. Include the word "Google" in that search...
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  • Fifty Sides Of The Beach Boys: The Songs That Tell Their Story

    FIFTY SIDES OF THE BEACH BOYS: THE SONGS THAT TELL THEIR STORY by Mark Dillon (ECW Press), 314 pages, $19.95 paper. Rating: NNNNDid you know...
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  • Daily deals danger

    There are currently more than 650 daily deal sites in operation, each sending out at least one newsletter a day with several coupons inside. Conservatively,...
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  • Epic Meal Time

    NXNE INTERACTIVE at the Hyatt Regency (370 King West), Tuesday (June 12) to June 15. $179-$449, stu $109-$199. nxne.com.It would be unfair to call Epic...
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  • Beach Boys – That’s Why God Made The Radio

    THE BEACH BOYS play the Molson Amphitheatre on June 19. See listing. Rating: NNAs an early member of the Beach Boys, a 15-year-old David Marks...
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  • Campaign for real beer in Ontario

    Sneaking into the Toronto this week was a tasty bottle of beer called Voodoo Doughnut Maple Bacon Ale, made by Rogue Ales, a brewery in...
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