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Dan Ackerman Greenberg / TechCrunch:
The Secret Strategies Behind Many "Viral" Videos — This guest post was written by Dan Ackerman Greenberg, co-founder of viral video marketing company The Comotion Group and lead TA for the Stanford Facebook Class. Dan will graduate from the Stanford Management Science & Engineering Masters program in June.
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Mathew / mathewingram.com/work:
Video secrets revealed! Give me a break — TechCrunch put up a post yesterday by someone named Dan Ackerman Greenberg (everyone else gets by with just two names, but for some reason Dan seems to need three) about how his company uses a variety of secret "black hat" techniques to get videos to go …
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Matt Asay / The Open Road:
Microsoft's Hotmail founder goes for the (wrong) Office jugular with Live Documents — Sabeer Bhatia, one of the co-founders of Hotmail (bought by Microsoft for $400 million ten years ago), is on a mission to lobotomize Microsoft's $20 billion Office business. He has an uphill climb.
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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0:
The BIG iPod touch review — A few weeks ago I got my hands on two 16GB iPod touch devices. Having spent a lot of hands on time with these devices it's time for a comprehensive review. — The iPod touch was for me the first Apple device to come out when I eagerly awaited the release day.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Is Facebook Really Censoring Search When It Suits Them? — Earlier this month I wrote a blog post showing that a search for presidential candidate "Ron Paul" in Facebook Groups yields zero results. Facebook blamed the problem on a bug (unofficially, via comments by employees to that post), which was later corrected.
Andrew Orlowski / The Register:
O2 has Wigan-sized iPhone problem — Exclusive Everyone wants a Wii or an Eee this Christmas. They're the hottest technology items in town, but there's none to be found for love nor money. If you want an iPhone, however, supplies remain plentiful. — Reliable channel sources tell us …
Addy Dugdale / Gizmodo:
Japanese Researchers Recycle Old Cell Phone Parts into PCs [Recycled Parts] — Japanese Researchers Recycle Old Cell Phone Parts into PCs — Recycled cell phone parts are being used alongside circuit boards to make pocket-sized PCs. A team of engineers at Hokuto System is behind the idea …
Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Mark Cuban to ISPs: block all P2P traffic; Ars to Cuban: um, no — In an open letter to Internet service providers published earlier this week, billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban calls for telecoms to put an end to peer-to-peer (P2P) filesharing. Cuban expresses concerns that P2P …
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
IAC To Spend $100 Million In China, Ask.com China Coming As Well — IAC is planning on spending $100 million on new ventures in China and is also looking to launch a Chinese version of Ask.com — According to the Wall Street Journal, IAC CEO Barry Diller said the new push into China …
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Charles Arthur / Guardian Unlimited:
Forgotten your password? Google can find it for you. Unfortunately — There's a certain amount of crowing associated with hacking the blog of a security team - which might be why a hacker, apparently Russian, broke into the blog of the Cambridge University security team at the Light Blue Touchpaper blog.
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Thursdayclub / Travels With My Overnight Bag:
Exercise for the Reader: Facebook Member Stats — [Update: before you get too far into these numbers, you might like to check out this updated post, which gives a more accurate breakdown of genders - the country totals remain the same] — Out of interest I went through the Facebook ad platform …
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Frank Pasquale / madisonian.net:
Real Online Competition: The Right to Exit — There has been a lot of news coverage of Google's "openness initiatives" over the past few weeks. The "Open Handset Alliance" promises to break the carriers' appliancization of cell phones. OpenSocial is designed to put its imprint …
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Addy Dugdale / Gizmodo:
Skype's Encryption May be Used as an Excuse for Trojan Viruses by German Police [Skype] — Skype's encryption codes are proving a problem for German police, who say that their officers are unable to monitor suspect conversations. One of the country's top cops admitted yesterday …
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Charles Arthur / Guardian:
Schools should teach data security — Here's an interesting fact: the junior official who burnt all that benefit data onto those two infamous CDs was born when the Data Protection Act came into force in Britain - 1984. — If the Tory government then in power had had its wits about it …
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped:
Update On One Of Google's Paid Links Info Pages? — From the Google Webmaster Help Center (my emphasis): — "Buying links in order to improve a site's ranking is in violation of Google's webmaster guidelines and can negatively impact a site's ranking in search results."
