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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google Privacy Blunder Shares Your Docs Without Permission — In a privacy error that underscores some of the biggest problems surrounding cloud-based services, Google has sent a notice to a number of users of its Document and Spreadsheets products stating that it may have inadvertently shared …
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Mike Elgan / Computerworld:
Why global is the new ‘local’ — The real reason newspapers and radio stations are hurting — and how they can thrive — Computerworld) If you have an iPhone, tap the App Store button, and search for “radio.” Choose “iHeart radio” and then click on the Clear Channel Broadcasting app called “iHeart radio.”
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Some Indie Facebook Developers Pulling In Over $700,000 A Month — The mass media may be enamored of the rags-to-riches stories of developers on Apple's App Store, but it isn't the only game in town for indie developers to strike it rich. We've gotten word from SocialMedia …
Nathan Richardson / paidContent.org:
Bring On The Techies: How Silicon Valley Can Help Save Newspapers — The author is the CEO of ContentNext Media, parent of paidContent. — How badly does the newspaper industry need new ideas? Here's the story I often tell when that question comes up. — The year was 2005 …
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Eric Eldon / VentureBeat:
Try before you buy? Zuckerberg has a public Twitter account? — Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has been using the microblogging service he's been trying to buy - Twitter — since last May. But he's kept his account on the site (@zuck) private and basically unused.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hulu Brushes Off Boxee, And Boxee Comes Back For More — Just in case anyone was wondering: Hulu, the Web video service that lets you watch Fox and NBC shows on your computer, really doesn't want you to plug that computer into your TV. — And Boxee, a startup that makes it easy for you to plug …
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Kelly Hodgkins / Boy Genius Report:
Verizon Wireless HTC Touch Diamond gets pictured — We got our hands on some pictures of a test model of the Verizon Wireless Touch Diamond rocking its sleek, black and shiny casing. Unlike Verizon's Touch Pro, the Diamond has retained the characteristic faceted back.
Jeff Atwood / Coding Horror:
HTML Validation: Does It Matter? — The web is, to put it charitably, a rather forgiving place. You can feed web browsers almost any sort of HTML markup or JavaScript code and they'll gamely try to make sense of what you've provided, and render it the best they can.
Lucas Mearian / Computerworld:
IDC: Storage revenues drop, but capacity shipped grows — Fibre Channel is suffering from competition by less expensive storage — Computerworld) IDC Corp.'s quarterly data storage sales report shows that quarterly revenue for worldwide storage systems was down 5.9% in the last quarter of 2008 compared to a year earlier.
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Fred / A VC:
Hacking Education (continued) — Last fall I wrote a post on this blog titled Hacking Education. In it, I outlined my thoughts on why the education system (broadly speaking) is failing our society and why hacking it seems like both an important and profitable endeavor.
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Alana Semuels / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Atiz turns books digital without help from Google — An Atiz book-scanning device. Credit: Atiz. — Digitizing books is all the rage these days, with the Kindle 2 being pimped on the “Daily Show,” Amazon allowing its e-books to be read on the iPhone and Barnes & Noble getting deeper into the digital book market.
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Erica Sadun / Ars Technica:
Apple has no clue what's going on with dev contracts — Apple seems to be caught flat-footed and unprepared for the upcoming deluge of developer renewals for its iPhone program, Ars has learned. Here's what we found regarding the status of both ADC and iTunes Connect renewals.
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Jim / craigslist blog:
“Now Comes Thomas Dart...” — We will respond to Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart's complaint (we have not yet been served, and learned of it only through press releases and media) sometime soon. Our preliminary view is that the complaint is not well founded in law, and that it should be dismissed.
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Economist:
Model behaviour — Software: Simulating the behaviour of crowds of people, or swarms of animals, has both frivolous and important uses — An army of orcs from the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy — THE warmongering orcs depicted in the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy are evil …
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