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Facebook's redesign: Good concept, but not there yet — Has Facebook just destroyed its usefulness? Is the design, introduced a week ago, killing the site's ability to help you share information with your real-life friends? That's what a vocal and perhaps large group of people think.
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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.
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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.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook Bug Reveals Private Photos, Wall Posts — Earlier this evening we came across a privacy flaw on Facebook that allowed users to gain access to portions of their friends' profiles that they should not have been able to see. We contacted Facebook about the issue over an hour ago …
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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.
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Owen Thomas / Gawker:Google's Data Fetish Drives Away Its Top Designer
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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]
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Opportunities for Integrating Technology with Your Institution's Goals … Leaders & Administrators IT Professionals — Teachers & Professors — The New iMac line The new 20-inch and 24-inch iMac deliver a 30 percent larger display, twice the memory, and twice the storage.
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily:
The Next Target For Google: Corporate IT Budgets — There's an old debate in the Valley about whether Google (GOOG) is really a media company or a technology company. In a sense, it is a silly debate, which is mostly a matter of semantics. A better question is this …
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 …
Markcuban / blog maverick:
Why Do Internet People Think Content People Are Stupid ? - updated — I was reading an article where the Boxee CEO said content would eventually be al a Carte. Why does he, like so many other internet people think content producers are stupid ? Has he, along with so many others pushing internet video …
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Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
Report: Improper use of Deep Packet Inspection could be Internet game-changer — There are legitimate uses for a technology called Deep Packet Inspection. But it's the “improper” use of the technology that prompted Washington-based Free Press to release a report this week entitled …
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Is Oracle Forking Red Hat Linux? — There are key differences. But is it a fork? Oracle's top Linux exec explains. — For the last two and a half years, Oracle has been selling its own supported version of Linux based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). — But the company claims it's not a fork.
Steve Smith / MediaPost:
Google Watches Its Language — Last week I dipped my toe into the emerging world of consumer opt-in/opt-out through BlueKai's very attractive consumer-facing interface. BlueKai is trying not only to simplify the process of managing one's online behavioral profile, but to incentivize consumers to opt-in.
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Jen Granito / The LinkedIn Blog:
Sharing RSS feeds on LinkedIn Groups — Since we launched news sharing in groups, users have shared nearly a million articles with professional colleagues. — The obvious desire for people to share and discuss news with their peers begged for us to develop more ways for people to collaborate …
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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