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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
New AOL Chairman and CEO-and About-To-Be-Ex-Googler-Tim Armstrong Speaks! — For a tall man, Tim Armstrong has been on an awful lot of online companies' short lists. — For a big Web exec job, that is. Indeed, whenever one opens up in the Internet space, the 6′-3″ Google ad sales …
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TimeWarner:Tim Armstrong Named Chairman and CEO of AOL
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:Google Ad Chief Tim Armstrong Replaces Randy Falco As Chairman And CEO Of AOL
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Staci D. Kramer / paidContent.org: Interview: Tim Armstrong, Chairman And CEO, AOL: 'Job #1 Is To Focus …
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:AOL Gets a New CEO: Google Sales Boss Tim Armstrong (Plus the Whole Press Release)
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Amount And Value Of Twitter Traffic — Much is being written today about the value of a large following on Twitter. Jason Calacanis wants to pay $125,000 a year to have Twitter recommend him to other users, for example. He thinks that over time accounts with massive followings …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:How Much Is A Suggested Slot On Twitter Worth? Jason Calacanis Offers $250,000.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Labels: whatever the future of music is, it isn't “free” — Labels say that it's not just about the concerts and the merchandise; people will still pay for access to recorded music, but not like they used to. The future is monthly or yearly payments for access to all the tunes you want.
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Zach Spear / AppleInsider:
Inside Apple's new third-gen iPod shuffle (teardown photos) — The latest, most petit version of Apple's iPod shuffle music player can be disassembled without major challenge, according to a new tear-down report, which notes that the player is compatible with third-party headphones …
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Facebook Getting Serious About Vanity URLs — Facebook is getting wise to something MySpace has known from the start - users love vanity URLs. When you tell someone your MySpace page, you just say myspace.com/[user/brand/band/ etc.] (I'm myspace.com/mikearrington). On Facebook it has always been more difficult.
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Nicholas Carlson / The Biz:
The Arrogance Of Newspapers Is Astonishing — In an article in today's New York Times, Richard Pérez-Peña tries to imagine a world without physical newspapers. He doesn't get very far: — No one yet has unlocked the puzzle of supporting a large newsroom purely on digital revenue …
Sascha Segan / PC Magazine:
New Carrier Promises Unlimited 3G Data, VOIP — A brand-new mobile-phone carrier, Zer01 Mobile said Thursday that it can give you truly unlimited voice and data on smart phones for $69.95/month, without a contract, on a network as broad as the one owned by AT&T. — That's because, in many ways, the network is AT&T's.
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Heather Hopkins / Hitwise Intelligence:
Where to From Twitter — Is Twitter, as Eric Schmidt opined last week, the poor man's email? Is it a Facebook or Google killer? What can clickstream data tell us about how people are using Twitter and how does that compare to email, Facebook and search engines?
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Search Engine Land, Twitterrati, InformationWeek, the Econsultancy blog, Beyond Search, SiliconAngle, ReadWriteWeb and Micro Persuasion, Thanks:atul
CNN:
Sex offender kills teen while under GPS monitoring, police say — VANCOUVER, Washington (CNN) — When 13-year-old Alycia Nipp didn't come home from a trip to Wal-Mart, her family had no idea where she was, but a tracking device was transmitting the location of her alleged killer.
The Boy Genius / Boy Genius Report:
Apple iPhone 3.0 OS event March 17th, we got some info — So it looks like Apple's planning on holding an event for iPhone 3.0 OS March 17th along with showing off an updated SDK. This would fit nicely with their brief history of having a preview software event followed by a hardware refresh in June/July.
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Ryan Singel / Epicenter:
Google Voice Speaks of World Domination — When Google announced its integrated phone service called Google Voice Thursday, it said something very loud. — Google is saying it wants to be the world's communication hub, and hundreds of companies — ranging from mobile phone operators to Skype to Microsoft better be listening.
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
StumbleUpon To Launch su.pr ShortUrl Service — StumbleUpon is preparing to launch a shortURL service (a web service that provides short aliases for redirection of long URLs, like TinyURL or Bit.ly) in the next couple of weeks called su.pr. — Founder Garret Camp announced the new service …
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Erica Orden / New York Magazine:
Columbia J-School's Existential Crisis — The media bloodbath hasn't made for happy days at Columbia Journalism School. When the Times recently announced that its new, hyperlocal blog experiment “The Local” would be assisted by journalism students not from Columbia but from the City University of New York …
Robot Pete / AndroidGuys:
G1's Going for Under $100... But Why? — Sometimes we hold off publishing certain articles on AndroidGuys simply because know that it would be redundant to post something that's clearly made its way around the net. Such is the case with the stories making their way around other Android and mobile gadget sites.
Rita Chang / AdAge:
Dockers Introduces ‘Shakeable’ iPhone Ad — Apparel Maker Uses Device's Motion-Detecting Accelerometer — SAN FRANCISCO (AdAge.com) — The latest example of a cool marketer-created iPhone experience is not an app but an ad. Apparel maker Dockers San Francisco has created a “shakable,” …
Rachael King / Business Week:
Is Twitter the Next Monster.com? — Plenty of job seekers spend hours combing through listings on Monster or CareerBuilder but experts say that's not necessarily the most effective way to hunt for a job. It turns out that only 12.3% of hires of candidates from outside the company come …
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Associated Press:
IBM launches water-management services operation — SAN FRANCISCO - IBM Corp. wants to get really deep into water. — The technology company is launching a new line of water services Friday, hoping to tap a new sales vein by taking the manual labor out of fighting pollution and managing water supplies.
Stephen Shankland / CNET News:
New beta paves way for Firefox 3.5 — Updated 3:56 p.m. PDT to include details about the fourth beta and upcoming Firefox 3.5 — Mozilla on Thursday released the third beta version of Firefox 3.1, aka Shiretoko, one of the frontrunners in the current race to improve Web browsers.
Ry Crozier / iTnews Australia:
Cybercrime-as-a-service takes off — Malware writers that sell toolkits online for as little as $400 will now configure and host the attacks as a service for another $50, a security expert has said. — Speaking at the Vasco Banking Summit in Sydney yesterday, the company's technical account manager …
Matt Marshall / VentureBeat:
In move to target behavior, Google warns publishers to update privacy policies — Google reached out this evening to Web publishers using its advertising, warning them to review their privacy policies now that Google is about to track their users more closely.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Obama White House: Copyright treaty is a ‘national security’ secret — Last September, the Bush administration defended the unusual secrecy over an anti-counterfeiting treaty being negotiated by the U.S. government, which some liberal groups worry could criminalize some peer-to-peer file sharing that infringes copyrights.
