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Bob is a software engineer working at Googlea well-established software company. His social network includes his friends from college, (now spread out through the entire US), and also his coworkers and other acquaitances at work. Almost all of his coworkers have started using Google+ for social networking. Bob's friends outside of Google are for the most part, still on Facebook, not wanting to manage two social networks simultaneously. To complicate matters further, several of Bob's friends try to maintain a presence on multiple social networks by posting the same material on both Facebook and Google+, and sometimes also including Twitter and their blogs. Bob has set up a Hubbub account to unify his consumption of social network postings and uses it several times a day to read the material posted by his friendsfamily and co-workers. He is really into the "latest and greatest" technology products, and has been reading everything on the web about the upcoming iPad release. He currently has an iphone, which he uses primarily when he's not at work or front of his home computer. He uses Google+ to stay in touch with friends and co-workers, and Facebook to stay in touch with his family and extended social network. He surfs Reddit, imgur and hackernews on his down-time at work. In addition, he's been following political news feeds to keep himself updated on the 2012 US presidential election. Currently he's at home, and he wants to check up on his friends to a bit of news and relax after a hard day's debugging.
The Hubbub reader greatly simplifies Bob's life by detecting identical content posted on multiple sites and showing him only one copy of the data. To read the information, Bob:
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