Daily Dispatch: Pentagon disbands Social Media Office; Kindle Lending Club site launched

In today's Digital Dispatch:

Unfollowed: Pentagon Deletes Social Media Office (Wired)

..."It's important for people in press operations, community and public outreach and communications and planning to be able to know how to use and access Facebook, Twitter and the other social media tools, rather than just have a single unit or single person do nothing but social media."

Noise-canceling device plugs into your MP3 player, removes sound of dental drill (gizmag)

...You may soon be able to relax (or at least tune out the sound of the drill) and listen to music on your own MP3 player, connected to a noise-canceling device developed by Kings College London in conjunction with Brunel University and London South Bank University.

Kindle Lending Club becomes an e-book loan matchmaker (examiner.com)

...In addition to offering their own books for loan, members can make "borrow requests" for books they would like to read, as well. The Kindle Lending Club already seen 786 users join, listing nearly 2,000 Kindle e-books to loan.

Can Your Camera Phone Turn You Into a Pirate? (New York Times)

...After a couple of hours of this, we placed the books back on the shelf and went home, without buying a thing. But the digital images came home with us in our smartphones.

Facebook Suspends Phone & Address Sharing Feature (ReadWriteWeb)

...A primary complaint of many commenters, developers and members of the data portability community was that the permissions dialog design did little to convey to users that they were now sharing information that had previously been kept for use on Facebook, not third-party applications.

Brandishing Weapons: Glock and Rivals' Social Marketing Is A Tone Deaf Failure (brandchannel)

...In fact, Glock (and its competitors) count on this exact kind of user-generated, photographic, voluntary brand championship as part of its grassroots, word of mouth marketing mix.

Hipster Is Quora Plus Location – Or Q&A For Where You Are (TechCrunch)

...For Hipster appears to be a Q&A site built around your current location. Let's call it a ‘Quora for location.' And it even looks like Quora.

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