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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Zuckerberg interview: What went wrong — I want to get video of the uncomfortable keynote with Mark Zuckerberg and Business Week's Sarah Lacy at SXSW today so I can use it as an object lesson in my journalism classes about how not do conduct an interview. My lecture:
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Daniel Terdiman / Geek Gestalt:
Journalist becomes the story at Mark Zuckerberg SXSWi keynote — AUSTIN, Texas—Ugh. Talk about losing an audience. — During Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's keynote address Sunday here at South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi), on-stage interviewer Sarah Lacy out-and-out bombed …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
The GigaOM Interview: Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect, Microsoft Corp. — Fresh from his Mix'08 keynote, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect and industry luminary, Ray Ozzie, spent some time on the phone with me, discussing everything from the company's services strategy …
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Richard Waters / Financial Times:
Microsoft wary on Yahoo integration — Microsoft would not rush to merge its technology platform with Yahoo's after a takeover of the internet company, even if meant delaying some of the potential benefits to shareholders from any deal, says Microsoft's chief software architect.
John Oates / The Register:Microsoft's Yahoo! takeover faces technical challenges
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Louise Story / Bits:
How Do They Track You? Let Us Count the Ways — In my article in Monday's Times, “To Aim Ads, Web Is Keeping Closer Eye on What You Click,” I worked with comScore to develop a new measure for Web companies: how much data they can collect from users. — On the Internet …
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Louise Story / New York Times:
To Aim Ads, Web Is Keeping Closer Eye on You — A famous New Yorker cartoon from 1993 showed two dogs at a computer, with one saying to the other, “On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.” — That may no longer be true. — A new analysis of online consumer data shows that large Web companies …
Allen Stern / CenterNetworks:
Zoho People Launches - HR Management — Zoho is launching a new application in their business suite of apps today called Zoho People. Zoho People is a HRM - Human Resources Management - app that includes five modules: organization, recruitment, forms, checklist, and self-service.
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Jonathan Brown / The Independent:
McCartney to release Beatles back catalogue on iTunes — Making The Beatles? back catalogue available online through iTunes could make a tidy profit for Sir Paul cCartney, following his £30m divorce wrangle with Heather Mills — It may be almost 38 years since they officially split …
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Haroon Malik / Gizmodo:Paul McCartney Signs $400 Million iTunes Deal For The Beatles Catalog
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Sridhar Pappu / New York Times:
No Game About Nazis for Nintendo — The Nintendo DS video game console has made itself indispensable to the playground set by serving up a steady menu of Super Mario games, plus the occasional SpongeBob SquarePants or Hannah Montana title. — Last month, when a 21-year-old British video …
Ben Worthen / Business Technology:
Bigger Computer Monitors = More Productivity — Working late? Blame your computer screen. A new study finds that bigger monitors make people more productive. — Researchers at the University of Utah tested how quickly people performed tasks like editing a document …
Associated Press:
Sprint phone first to use fast network — NEW YORK - Sprint Nextel Corp. is upgrading one of its cell phone models so that it can connect to a faster data network, doubling its download speeds and boosting upload speeds by about eight times. — Both Sprint and Verizon Wireless operate …
Tim Arango / New York Times:
Cable Firms Join Forces to Attract Focused Ads — In an effort to slow Google's siphoning of advertising dollars away from television, the nation's six largest cable companies are making plans for a jointly owned company that would allow national advertisers to buy customized ads and interactive ads across the companies' systems.
Mark Hendrickson / TechCrunch:
Watch Out FriendFeed: Socialthing! Is Even Easier to Use — There are a bazillion social network aggregators out there (Mike attempted to round up some of the most notable ones here). FriendFeed is the most visible of them all for two main reasons: it was founded a group of ex-Googlers and …
InfoWorld:
IBM, Hitachi team up to advance chip research — IBM and Hitachi are expected to announce a research agreement on Monday in which the companies will collaborate to improve semiconductor technology, including shrinking the features on silicon chips. — Researchers from the companies will try …
Darren Waters / BBC NEWS | dot.life:
Zoooming to Japan — Last year I met Kris Tate, the young developer behind web 2.0 start-up, Zooomr, a photo-sharing site. — He had moved to San Francisco at 17 to get closer to the heart of the web community and built Zooomr as a way of sharing photos with friends and family.
Tony Smith / The Register:
Asus CEO: Eee PC to get HDD options, Intel Atom CPU — Asus boss Jerry Shen has revealed that the upcoming 8.9in Eee PC 900 will use Intel's Atom processor and may eventually come with a hard drive. — Asus' 8.9in Eee PC 900: coming April/May — In an interview with US title Laptop Magazine …
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