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Douglas Bowman / Stopdesign:
Goodbye Google — Today is my last day at Google. I started working in-house at Google almost three years ago. I built a team from scratch. I was fortunate to hire a team of a very talented designers. We introduced Visual Design as a discipline to Google. And we produced amazing work together.
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Owen Thomas / Gawker:
Google's Data Fetish Drives Away Its Top Designer — As we reported last week, Doug Bowman, Google's top designer, has confirmed that he's leaving (we hear to Twitter). Bowman's reasons for quitting are fascinating — and they show why Google's losing its cool.
Adam Howell:
Google's “designer drain” — Doug Bowman left Google today for Twitter. Kevin Fox, the talented fellow behind Gmail and Google Reader's first redesign, left in the beginning of last year to join FriendFeed. Jeff Veen, and the rest of the original Measure Map team, left middle of last year to start Small Batch.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Next-Gen iPhone Rumor: Faster Internet Speeds — Most of the rumors we've seen about Apple's (AAPL) next-generation iPhone are around increased processing and graphics power. But will the next iPhone also come with faster Internet access? — That's some scuttlebutt we've heard from a plugged-in source in the mobile industry.
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Gadget Lab, CNET News, SlashGear, Neowin.net, MacRumors, The iPhone Blog and Edible Apple
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Prince McLean / AppleInsider:Apple's 2009 iPhone to support faster 3G networks - report
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Heather Dougherty / Hitwise Intelligence:
Craigslist Top Search Term Last Week — For the first time in three years, searches for ‘craigslist’ surpassed ‘myspace,’ highlighting the increasing popularity of online classifieds during the economic downturn.U.S. searches on the term “craigslist” have increased 105 percent for the week ending March 14 …
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Source: Apple's next-gen iPhone has video camera — Apple this year will finally introduce video recording capabilities on at least one of its upcoming iPhone models, AppleInsider has been told. — An iPhone with a video cam — Details are few and far between, but the information comes …
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MobileCrunch, VentureBeat, PhoneDog.com Cell …, Edible Apple, TechSpot, iLounge, The iPhone Blog, The Register and Softpedia News
PC World:
Firefox May Already Be Dead — This is an exciting time for Web browsers. Google Chrome is now available in alpha for Linux, and I downloaded it for Ubuntu. Despite the fact that I was running it on my rather underpowered Dell Mini 9, it started in the blink of an eye.
Owen Thomas / Gawker:
Even Facebook Employees Hate the Redesign — The feedback on Facebook's new look, which emphasizes a stream of Twitter-like status updates, is almost universally, howlingly negative. Why isn't CEO Mark Zuckerberg listening to users? Because he doesn't have to, he's told employees.
Rebecca Buckman / Forbes:
Shake-Up At Sequoia — The VC firm has lost some key managers, raising questions about its expansion plans. — BURLINGAME, Calif.—Venture-capital star Sequoia Capital, the backer of companies like Google and Cisco, last year laid the groundwork for a big expansion.
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Ryan Paul / Ars Technica:
Chrome only browser left standing after day one of Pwn2Own — During a contest at the CanSecWest event, security researchers competed to exploit vulnerabilities in web browsers. Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer were all successfully compromised, but Chrome was able to withstand the first day of the competition.
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Guardian, DVLabs, Technologizer, Gizmodo, Neowin.net, Hardware 2.0, Between the Lines, Zero Day, Crave, Lifehacker, OSNews, Roughly Drafted, heise online, InformationWeek, Pocket-lint.com and ITworld.com
Electronista:
Internet Explorer 8 launch fails to dent Firefox — The release of Internet Explorer 8 hasn't had any significant impact on Firefox or any other competing browser, data collected by StatsCounter shows. While the final release of IE8 increased its market share slightly on launch day to 1.39 percent …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET News:Browser war centers on once-obscure JavaScript
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David Stewart / YouTube Blog:
Watching Video on Windows Mobile and Nokia S60 Phones — Our goal is to provide you with a great YouTube experience wherever you want to watch videos — whether it's on your computer, on your television, or on your mobile phone. While YouTube has been available for many mobile phones for over a year …
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Ryan Lawler / Contentinople:
Boxee CEO: Consumers Will Get a la Carte Online — NEW YORK — Media Summit — Boxee CEO Avner Ronen says the shift of content moving online will allow consumers to pick and choose what they want to watch, which could disrupt the business models of numerous cable programmers.
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Jim Dalrymple / Macworld:
Apple, AT&T sued for slow 3G speeds — Apple and AT&T are being sued again for over-promising and under-delivering on their claims of fast Internet access of the iPhone 3G. — Filed in the United States District Court, District of New Jersey, Damone Dickerson claims that Apple misrepresented the speed …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
Kaminsky: MS security assessment tool is a ‘game changer’ — Crash, bang, analyze — Free whitepaper - Lower security risks and costs by minimizing the time to protection — CanSecWest Microsoft on Friday released an open-source program designed to streamline the labor-intensive process …
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Google Ventures Almost Ready To Launch, But It Is A Bad Idea — Yes, the rumors are true. Google's Rich Miner is moving from the Android team to a new venture arm called Google Ventures. Miner recently appeared at a conference identified with a Google Ventures name tag …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Welcome To The Team, Sarah Lacy — I'd like to welcome Sarah Lacy to Team TechCrunch as a permanent addition to our editorial and writing team. Lacy, who was kind enough to write part time for us in February during my vacation, will continue to write Valley Girl, a biweekly column for BusinessWeek.
Josh Lowensohn / CNET News:
Quietube makes YouTube watching distraction-free — Quietube is a new tool to enhance the YouTube watching experience. The idea is that you can watch just the video with none of the other YouTube page elements. To do this you simply add its bookmarklet to your browser's bookmarks toolbar, and click it on any YouTube page.
Amanda Terkel / Think Progress:
Is ABC's Jake Tapper blocking journalists who criticize his Twitter updates? (UPDATED) — ABC News's Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper is a big fan of transparency. He has criticized the Obama administration for not allowing press during certain public appearances …
Zach Epstein / Boy Genius Report:
Nokia E71x landing at AT&T locations across the country; pricing revealed — What's better than a picture of a sexy black Nokia E71x headed to AT&T this month? A picture of four sexy black Nokia E71x's headed to AT&T this month, of course. Since we scooped it like grandma's mashed potatoes …
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InformationWeek, Phone Arena, MobileCrunch, Gizmodo, Obsessable, Unwired View, jkOnTheRun, Electronista and MobileBurn.com
Camille Ricketts / VentureBeat:
Semantic search engine Evri cuts staff by 25 percent — Evri, the search engine that lets you track keyword results across the web, confirmed today that it has cut its staff by 25 percent to better weather the economic downturn. Chief executive Neil Roseman says the Seattle-based company itself …
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Report: IBM combs through Sun contracts — IBM is reportedly wading through Sun Microsystems' contracts and documents for potential conflicts or problems, as it works its way through the due diligence process toward a merger, according to a report Friday in The Wall Street Journal.
Jay Meattle / Compete Blog:
Guest Post: Can Digg Keep Up With Facebook's Growth? So Far It Surprisingly Has — We welcome back Jay Meattle, a Compete.com original member, from HEPGURU for this guest post. — Below is a Digg and Facebook's monthly Unique Visitor chart going all the way back to the month they were launched.
Jason Chen / Gizmodo:
Apple Leaks Announcement of 17-inch iMac at $899 — Apple's own education site seems to have leaked news of a “new” 17-inch iMac, coming in at $899. Apple's official store still only has 20s and 24s. [Setteb.it via Apple Lounge]
