Want to ask Seth McFarlane, Family Guy’s creator, about what’s going to happen to Stewie this season or why he decided to create his The Cleveland Show spinoff? Now’s your chance, thanks to social media.

In an interesting use of social media, actor Kevin Pollak (A Few Good Men, The Wedding Planner, The Usual Suspects) is conducting a rare interview of Seth MacFarlane on his Ustreamustream chat show. And it’s an interactive interview, as Kevin will be getting his interview questions from anyone who tweets out the #kpcs hashtag.

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  From an image editing disaster by Microsoft to Yelp’sYelp augmented reality application to a rehab center for Internet addicts, it’s been a busy week in web news.
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  If you’re a Mac user and a social media addict, what’s better than social apps for the Mac? Free social apps for the Mac, of course!
  In this post we’ll take a look at 10 gratis programs for connecting to your social world via OS X…
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  Google guy Sergey Brin and his wife, 23andme CEO Anne Wojcicki, have donated $500,000 to Creative Commons, the nonprofit that’s trying to reinvent copyright.
  If you’re a media mogul…
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  More and more businesses are learning that adopting a strategy of incorporating social media to connect with customers is a great way to build a solid brand. Even companies that already have very successful global brands…

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• A Google Guy Keeps His Charity in the Family
• Think Twice: That Facebook Update Could Get You Robbed
• Audi Taps its Facebook Fans to Help Design Car of the Future
• LAPD Turns to YouTube to Find Lindsay Lohan’s Burglars
• Forrester: Social Networking Grows up
• Collecta Adds Social Sharing, Other Features
• Brand Building Through Search & Social Media
• Why Adults Have Fueled Twitter’s Growth

Enterprise content management (ECM) is big business these days. There are scads of companies turning a tidy profit promising to do a competent job of managing every conceivable type of content, from records bound by regulation to Web content and freewheeling collaborative work. What there isn’t as much of is sound advice from experienced professionals on how to save money when it comes to ECM.

At a time when IT budgets are tight and few can afford to spend anything they don’t have to, Gartner’s research vice president Tony Bell is offering some interesting thoughts on best practices for reducing costs. Here’s our assessment of his tactics for increasing efficiency when it comes to ECM.

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  Though online ads have long been a popular way for companies to make some money off the web, it often comes at the cost of irritating us web surfers. Running into an advertising…
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  SUNNYVALE, Calif.–Yahoo increased the social graces of its core products Monday, with a nod to its new home page and a declaration that it’s not done with search just yet.
  Popular Yahoo products such as Mail and Messenger will soon grow more social…

• Top 5 Most Annoying Online Ads
• The multi-core future, and how to survive it
• The Social Web Isn’t Just for the Young Anymore
• Yahoo gets more social with Mail, search updates
• Google Adds Salesforce to Enterprise Search

I don’t know what I like more about this 1981 4-page ad for the Apple III: The naive list of 100 things a computer can do, or the fact that precognitive designers created Mac OS X’s aqua look back then.

Most probably, the thing I like more is that the copy reads a lot like modern Apple ads. [Mac Mothership]

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  A couple of uber rich playboys from DriveDesign, not content with their dominance over the land, have taken to the high seas with this slick, modern take on the yacht—complete with pool…
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  Hey, hey. Look what the Fedex man dropped off! Why it’s the sexy MSi X-Slim X600. His big, white truck is like Santa’s sleigh to me. Anyway, I just unboxed the svelte notebook…
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  And here we have yet another Apple tablet rumor to be bandied about all the livelong day. According to Gizmodo, “a source that has always been 100% reliable” says that…
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  This one caught us by surprise, but it comes from a source that has always been 100% reliable: Not only Apple may be working on a 10-inch tablet, but also in 13″ and 15″ models…

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• First impressions of the MSi X-Slim X600
• Rumor: Apple tablet to run full OS X 10.5? Three screen sizes, too?
• Rumor: Apple May Be Working on XL Tablets Running Full Mac OS X
• Gallery: OS X Snow Leopard Unboxed
• Design a More Appealing Snow Leopard Box
• I Wouldn’t Mind Living In These Architectural Typefaces
• 6 Things You Need to Know About Mac OS X Snow Leopard
• OS X drops Palm HotSync support, Newton support next?
• Openbook Nano Review: The Lazy Man’s Hackintosh Netbook

Ever wonder how war photographers survive out there? We’ve enlisted Teru Kuwayama—a photographer who has covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and other hotspots for Time, Newsweek and Outside—to explain the perils of working in a war zone.

Among military planners, there’s an aphorism that states: “Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics.”

The daily mechanics of photographing in a “war zone” don’t have much to do with photography—mostly it’s about getting from point A to point B without getting your head cut off, then finding a signal and an outlet.

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  I don’t know what I like more about this 1981 4-page ad for the Apple III: The naive list of 100 things a computer can do, or the fact that precognitive designers created Mac OS X’s aqua look back then.
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  Because even aquatic life needs to experience the hype surrounding flexible OLED displays, Kodak dunked one of theirs into a tank of water, turned it on, and recorded what happened next with a few pictures:
  Long story short…

• Will Someone Please Tell Me Exactly What a Personal Computer Can Do?
• Kodak’s Flexible OLED Display Swims With the Fishes
• Canon 7D surfaces along with new macro lens
• NFL to let Cowboys giant HD scoreboard stay as-is, at least for 2009
• GR8 Sees Grado Moving From Outside to Inside the Ear
• Altoids: Curiously Strong, Curiously Hacked
• Bring On the Replicator Already
• Two-mic system detects fetal heart rate anomalies, prenatal beat sampling
• The PS3 Slim Might Be a Bit Slow
• LG’s 15-inch OLED TV on sale in Korea this November, overseas in 2010

The NFL has ruled on the Dallas Cowboys punt blocking super-sized videoboard deciding to leave it where it is, 90 feet above the playing field, at least for this season. That’s no surprise to us, on the last EHD Podcast we figured no one would be able to tell Jerry Jones there’s a problem with his billion dollar baby, obstructed view seating and all. So far there’s just the one strike in the books, but if it happens again, it is a dead ball and the clock and down will both be reset. Haven’t seen the punt heard round the world yet? Check after the break for a clip of the kick that caused all the commotion, though we’re still waiting for a ruling on whether or not Gears of War tournaments on the thing are still legal.

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  After Puddy’s ho-hum appearance earlier this month, the revolving celebrity door that is the Apple I’m a Mac ads now feature the gruff and tough Robert Loggia as the PC’s personal trainer…
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  When Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones set out to build the biggest, most elaborate, most expensive stadium in all the land, a ridiculously large video screen was, of course, on the list of things to purchase…
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  Butter. It’s tasty and it just happens to be an ideal lubricant for suicide hotspots like giant steel bridges.
  Take this bridge in Guangzhou China for example:
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• Robert Loggia Is the PC’s New Personal Trainer
• Gigantic video screen in new Cowboys Stadium to cause problems all season long
• Butter Smeared On Giant Bridge To Prevent Suicides and Traffic Jams
• Rumor: Best Buy to start accepting orders for Sprint’s HTC Hero on September 13
• And They Lived Happily Ever After… Until the Giant Gundam Smashed Them
• Ultra-Sleek 5-Inch Android Tablet Looks Like Giant iPod Touch
• Polycarbonate MacBook to live on, be redesigned?
• Surprise! The Pirate Bay’s Buyers Are Extremely Shady
• Zune HD Teases Inaccessible Apps Menu During Weekend Preview
• Dallas Cowboys HD scoreboard hanging too low?

Tennis’ twittering heavy hitters like Serena Williams and Andy Roddick better watch what they tweet. The 2009 US Open starts Monday and tennis authorities — ie. the Tennis Integrity Unit — are doing everything in their power to discourage athletes from turning to TwitterTwitter to reveal inappropriate information.

Newsnews is trickling out of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center that cautionary signs now litter locker rooms and players’ lounges, while emails to all players with similar strict messages have been sent out. On top of forbidding tweeting on the court during matches, players, coaches, agents, and family members are being instructed to keep their off-court Twittering to an absolute minimum.

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  There’s no doubt about it: TV is getting way more social. A recent patent filed by IBM reveals that Big Blue wants to help it get even more social, by developing a remote control that will automatically blog and/or microblog what you’re watching.
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  Twitter is used for a lot of things these days, but this has to be one of my favorites. A 28-year-old guy named Justin has set up a Twitter account simply to tweet out random things his elderly father says…
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  “Teens don’t tweet.” Over the past few weeks, this fact has been reported time and time again from analysts, bloggers, and even mainstream media. Why the obsession with…
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  We’re back at it again.
  After Morgan Stanley let a 15-year-old write a research report this summer on how teens consume media which said young people don’t use the microblogging network…

• Dads Say The Darndest Things…On Twitter
• IBM’s New Remote Control Will Tweet Your TV Watching
• Worth The Wait: New Facebook iPhone App Sneaks In Some Last Minute Changes
• Teens Don’t Tweet? They May Start Soon
• More to Say? Forget Twitter — Prattle on (and on) at Woofer
• Twitter co-founder Stone doesn’t care about “Teens don’t Tweet” talk
• Teens Don’t Tweet, Or Do They?
• Will Twitter-to-Facebook Publishing Make You Tweet Less?
• Watch Out TwitPic! Yfrog and Bit.ly Team Up for Image Sharing
• Twitter Flew Above The 50 Million Uniques Mark For the First Time in July

Seeo, a Berkeley, Calif.-based battery-maker, has raised more than $8.6 million in new funding, according to a regulatory filing. The company’s website doesn’t say much about the product, except that “Seeo is developing advanced materials to revolutionize electricity storage and delivery.” The company raised nearly $1 million from Khosla Ventures last year, and peHub reports that Khosla is a return investor.

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  [This piece, written by Al Monro, CEO at touch-screen designer NextWindow, is the third in a series of posts about cutting-edge areas of innovation. The series is sponsored by Microsoft...
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  Gideon Yu, the former Facebook CFO unceremoniously shown the door in late March, has joined Khosla Ventures as a General Partner, we’ve heard from multiple sources.
  Prior to Facebook…

• “Touch” technology for desktop computing finally taking off
• Former Facebook CFO Gideon Yu Joins Khosla Ventures
• Soundboard is a simple but useful sound board
• Amyris takes $24.7M for renewable biofuels
• Wireless Cos Ask for $169.6M in Stimulus Bucks — Where’s Wireline?

With TV shows, music video, and video podcasts already proliferating the Zune marketplace, it was really only a matter of time before Microsoft dipped its toes into HD movies — not to mention kind of a logical step since Xbox Live was getting its movie section Zune-branded. BostonPocketPC writer Steven Hughes has uploaded pictures of an alleged pamphlet handed out at Best Buy’s Zune HD showings that, among other things, make reference to finding Zune Marketplace content including HD movies. Ban on HDTV Media Center recordings notwithstanding, things are looking up for Zune 4.0 software. And here we thought Apple was late to the party with its movie service.

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  You’ve been posting your angry rants on the YouTubes for a while now, and quite frankly your act is getting old. You know what you need, right? A spec bump. How about…
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  The Niveus Zone was good, bringing an HD HTPC to your living room in a compact box, but the Zone Pro is three times the speed of the old one. And it shows.
  Here are the specs: 1080p…
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  It was just a matter of time. With the Archos Android announcement scheduled for September 15, the boys at the FCC have splayed the Android-powered MID that popped up on the AppsLib site…
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  We had a good feeling that Microsoft might have a thing or two to announce arround Windows 7 Media Center at the upcoming CEDIA show in Atlanta this September, but now we can start the official countdown…

• Hercules Dualpix HD720p webcam for Internet trolls on the go
• Review: Niveus Zone Pro One-Ups The Zone
• Archos’ 5-inch Android tablet drops by the FCC
• Microsoft’s CEDIA event September 9th to reveal what’s new in Media Center
• Zune HD box contents spotted at Best Buy
• Samsung Omnia HD i8910 Review
• Best Buy leaks Samsung Instinct HD details
• Samsung Instinct HD pops up on Best Buy’s website with 5 megapixel camera, TV out
• Zune HD Teases Inaccessible Apps Menu During Weekend Preview
• Zune HD’s “Apps” menu item spotted in the Marketplace, still short on details