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Almost every worker has done it: gotten in a little Facebook updating, personal e-mailing, YouTube watching and friend calling while on the clock.

Such indiscretions often went undetected by company management everywhere but the most secure and highly proprietary companies or governmental agencies. Not anymore.

Firms have become sharp-eyed, keenly eared watchdogs as they try to squeeze every penny's worth of their employees' salaries and to ensure they have the most professional and lawsuit-proof workplaces.

This year’s SXSWi was a cacophony of parties, cowboy hatted street teams and networking with a few panels and prepared speakers tucked in between. My extreme desire to sift logic from chaos and the peace of a few hours of distance has left me mulling the following 4 takeaways:

In a move to broaden its reach across the Internet, Twitter on Monday announced a new feature that lets users send and receive 140-character messages while surfing the web. Dubbed @anywhere, Twitter's latest service gives sites like Amazon.com, AdAge, Bing, Citysearch, eBay, The Huffington Post, Meebo, MSNBC, The New York Times, Yahoo and YouTube the ability to stream the millions of daily tweets Twitter users send every day.

Twitter works great for the "twitterati," but in many ways it has failed to penetrate the mainstream web. For many people who aren't attached to their phones 24/7 or aren't multitasking between work and a stream of micro-thoughts of questionable depth, Twitter is a buzzword, something the media loves to chatter about but signifying nothing.

Manuel Pellegrini, técnico del Real Madrid, no ha convocado al brasileño Kaká para enfrentarse al Real Valladolid, por una contractura muscular en el abductor del muslo izquierdo, según confirmó el parte médico de los galenos del club. Kaká será la gran ausencia del Real Madrid en su visita a Valladolid después de la polémica que ha rodeado al brasileño tras la eliminación de la Liga de Campeones, por sus quejas sobre el césped cuando fue sustituido por Raúl González, y las críticas de su mujer, Carolina Celico, y su director de comunicación en Twitter al técnico chileno.

Manuel Pellegrini, técnico del Real Madrid, no ha convocado al brasileño Kaká para enfrentarse al Real Valladolid por una contractura muscular, según señala el parte médico. Kaká será la gran ausencia del Real Madrid en su visita a Valladolid después de la polémica que ha rodeado al brasileño tras la eliminación de la Liga de Campeones, por sus queja cuando fue sustituido por Raúl González, y las críticas de su mujer, Carolina Celico, y su director de comunicación en Twitter al técnico chileno.

What's likely to be the hottest tech trend at this weekend's trendy South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, the powwow that has become a launch pad for the coolest, hippest new technology? Location, location, location.

The conference is shaping up to be a coming-out party for Foursquare, an application that lets people flag where they are -- and for the entire category of fledgling geo-location services. A bumper crop of services, notably Gowalla, Brightkite, Loopt and Where.com, are being embraced by smartphone owners to socialize and play games.

Enough with the tweets, the blogs, the Internet searches.

That's the message being communicated by courts across the country as jurors using their portable electronic devices continue to cause mistrials, overturned convictions and chaotic delays in court proceedings.

Last year a San Francisco Superior Court judge dismissed 600 potential jurors after several acknowledged going online to research the criminal case before them.