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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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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com:
YouTube: Promotional vs. Commercial Distribution Platform — It's a numbers' game, for sure, but you shouldn't be cooking the numbers to win. Call me naive, call me idealistic, but that's my philosophy. — A recent post on Tech Crunch talks about how "two top Hollywood movie studios …
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.
Phil Windley / Between the Lines:
The fine line between advertising and recommendations — Facebook Beacon has the 'Net riled up over what many see as an invasion of their privacy. A Wall Street Journal article gives a good description of how the opt-out process works: … The problem seems to be that like everything else on Facebook …
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Nick / Rough Type:Is the social graph Web 3.0?
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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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Alice Miles / Times of London:The Word is out: Microsoft will face online fight on core software
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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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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Is Almost 2/3 Women (and other stats) — A blogger named Paul Francis went to the trouble of gathering Facebook user data via an advertiser tool that facilitates audience targeting. He pulled user numbers for the top countries, broken down by male/female. — The data set is here.
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:
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 …
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Robert Andrews / mocoNews.net:
Blyk Claims Up To 43 Percent Click-Through On First Mobile Ads — Six weeks after launching, Blyk - the mobile virtual network giving free calls and texts in return for receiving ads - has given us some numbers indicating its progress. — Response: Sales director Jonathan MacDonald told …
Mike Madison / madisonian.net:
Romantics Sue Over Guitar Hero — The 80s pop band The Romantics are suing the producers of the fabulously successful video game Guitar Hero. (Billboard story here.) The game includes a lawfully produced cover of The Romantics' one and only smash hit, What I Like About You.
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Amazon Kindle sells out on debut — Amazon boss Jeff Bezos unveiled the Kindle device — Amazon's Kindle e-book reader has sold out despite scepticism about whether the device will prove popular. — A notice on the Kindle pages on the Amazon web store said "heavy customer demand" …
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Business Wire:
One Laptop per Child Extends Give One Get One Program Through December 31 — Giving Campaign off to Strong Start; People Want More Time to Participate — CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—One Laptop per Child (OLPC), a non-profit organization dedicated to providing every child …
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