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La red social Facebook anunció que abrirá su aplicación de mensajería Messenger para que otros desarrolladores puedan crear chatbots que interactúen con sus usuarios.

Here’s a ratio that prevails at far too many holiday parties: 99 percent vanity, 1 percent fun.

Los estadounidenses inventaron Facebook y Twitter, pero en lo que al deporte se refiere son Barcelona y Real Madrid, los archirrivales de la liga española de fútbol, los que encabezan la lista de los equipos deportivos con más seguidores mundiales en las redes sociales, de acuerdo con la lista de la revista Forbes. El primer equipo norteamericano que aparece en la clasificación es el equipo de básquetbol de Los Angeles Lakers, apenas en el noveno lugar.

As a college professor, I made a radical decision about a year ago: I banned smartphones and laptops during class. Honestly, I can’t compete with Facebook or an Internet flash sale or texts from friends. My students now take their notes the old-fashioned way with pen on paper. And it turns out that students who take notes by hand learn better.

A couple of years ago at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin, I met a guy in a superhero costume promoting his start-up, which he cheekily called Dead Social. His company’s mission statement: “Prepare for a Digital Death and Build Your Digital Legacy.”

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The medium is the message, Marshall McLuhan famously noted. And in a touch screen world, our relationships with our adult children improve with the more communications media we use. While millennials enjoy chatting on the phone or Skype, they also want parents to “lurk” on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and other social media so we can follow (not intrusively, though) their lives.

Updated 11/18/14

If you're not reading this on your smartphone or tablet, you will be soon.

ConocoPhillips Co. has the best 401(k) plan for workers, while Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Whole Foods Market Inc. offer some of the worst, according to a Bloomberg News  survey of the 250 largest public companies in the country.