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Jimbo Wales / Jimmy Wales:
Update on Wikia - doing more of what's working — If there is one thing that I've learned in my career, it is to do more of what's working, and less of what's not. — In past 24 months, Wikia.com has seen tremendous expansion. Nielsen recently recognized Wikia.com as the fifth fastest …
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Rafe Needleman / CNET News:
Wales giving up on Wikia Search — Wikia is announcing on Tuesday that it is closing the Wikia Search product. The service was intended to be a user-generated search engine, through which users could influence the rankings of results for all other users. — Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikia …
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Facebook CFO Gideon Yu Out; Fast-Growing Social Network Says It's Doing Fine Financially — Facebook CFO Gideon Yu (pictured here) is leaving Facebook, as the company announced internally today that it was replacing him and searching for a new CFO on the path to an eventual IPO.
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Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:Facebook CFO Gideon Yu Out
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Chris Davies / Android Community:
Android tethering apps pulled from Market — Google has reportedly pulled tethering apps from the Android Market. According to at least one developer, who contributed to the WiFi Tether for Root Users app, Google are citing their distribution agreements with carriers as the prompt for removal:
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Seth / False Dichotomies:
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace, Citysearch Partner To Create MySpace Local — MySpace and Citysearch are jointly announcing a new MySpace property this morning called MySpace Local. The site combines Citysearch business listings (including address, photos, menus, videos, maps and hours of location) from a thousand cities with the MySpace community.
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Evan Hessel / Forbes:
MySpace's Yelp Envy — The social network borrows a page from a competitor to compete with Facebook. — LOS ANGELES—Gathering inspiration from the rise of popular local ratings site Yelp, MySpace announced Tuesday that it is adding local business ratings tools to its social network.
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Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News:
Analyst: 32GB iPhone could debut in June — Updated at 9:15 a.m. PDT with comments from analyst Daniel Amir. — Apple is expected to begin production on a high-end iPhone with 32GB of flash memory and a low-end 3G version this spring, according to a research report released Tuesday by Lazard Capital Markets analyst.
Signal vs. Noise:
Get Satisfaction, Or Else... Get Satisfaction, a third-party customer service app/community, allows customers to offer feedback, make suggestions, get their questions answered, and generally get help with a product or service. — A good idea — Building support/community infrastructure is a pain point for a lot of companies.
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Associated Press:
Unpaid bills? Good luck starting future laptops — NEW YORK - As wireless carriers begin to subsidize computers that come with wireless Internet access, they're faced with a quandary: What do they do if the buyer stops paying his bills? — The company can cut off the computer's wireless access …
Patrick Oppmann / CNN:
Critics slam Microsoft bridge as waste of stimulus money — REDMOND, Washington (CNN) — Should a bridge that would connect two campuses at Microsoft's headquarters be funded with $11 million from the federal stimulus package? — Critics of using stimulus money for the bridge say it would give …
Reuters:
Firefox 3 becomes top browser in Europe -study — Microsoft last week lost European browser market leadership for the first time in years, when Mozilla's Firefox 3 took the top spot from Internet Explorer 7, Web analytics firm StatCounter said on Tuesday. — Mozilla Foundation's Firefox 3 …
Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:
Apple releases second beta of iPhone 3.0 Software to developers — Apple on Tuesday afternoon provided its vast developer community with a second beta release of iPhone Software 3., which arrived alongside a promise by the company to gradually open its live Push Notification service …
Xavier / GottaBeMobile.com:
Google Android, ARM Processors Coming to HP Netbooks? — HP may begin selling netbooks with Google's Android operating system according to the Wall Street Journal. HP's engineers are evaluating Android as a low-cost option, but there are no firm plans quite yet.
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Amanda Kleha / Google Enterprise Blog:
Spam data and trends: Q1 2009 — Editor's Note: The spam data cited in this post is drawn from the Google enterprise security and archiving security network. For a discussion of what Google is doing to keep spam out of your Gmail inboxes on the consumer side, see this post.
Steven Levy / Epicenter:
Who's Messing With the Google Book Settlement? Hint: They're in Redmond, Washington — Last October, Google settled the lawsuit brought against it by book publishers and authors concerning its massive book-scanning project. The $125 million deal gives Google the right to store digital copies …
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Douglas MacMillan / Business Week:
Hulu Attracts Crowds but Not Ads — News Corp.-NBC joint venture Hulu has surged in viewership, but advertisers are still leery, and content partners are pulling back — In the Super Bowl commercial calling Hulu “an evil plot to destroy the world,” 30 Rock star Alec Baldwin intones: “There's nothing you can do to stop it.”
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News:
Facebook flick moves ahead, but Facebook not thrilled — I won't believe it for sure until we see grainy paparazzi shots of actor Michael Cera walking around on a movie set in a North Face fleece and Adidas flip-flops, but it looks like things are moving forward on the film based on the early days of Facebook.
Jeff Widman / VentureBeat:
The changing face of usability testing: Optimal Workshop releases free service called Treejack — With the downturn in the economy, companies are trying to do more with less. Some are outsourcing jobs, others are laying off contractors, and still others are firing all their consultants.
Kasper Jade / AppleInsider:
Apple almost ready with Nehalem-based Xserves — Apple in the coming weeks is expected to introduce a new line of its 1U rack-mount server computers that have been updated to take advantage of Intel's new Nehalem architecture. — The systems are expected to use chips from same family of …
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Disney-Hulu Deal Done — A deal to bring Disney into the Hulu fold is “basically done,” a single source familiar with the discussions tells us. — PaidContent reported that if Disney were to do a deal, it would take a 30% stake in Hulu and become and equal partner to NBC Universal …
Dan Reed / USA Today:
American to add Wi-Fi service to domestic flights — Being online while being airborne is fast becoming reality for U.S travelers. — American Airlines (AMR) is announcing on Tuesday that it's joining rival Delta Air Lines (DAL) in making Wi-Fi Internet connections available to most domestic passengers.
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek:
Apple, Dell, Intel Sued Over Encryption Patent — The PACid Group named 19 tech companies in its lawsuit claiming infringement of its patent on generating encryption keys. — The PACid Group, a Houston company formed by inventors Guy L. Fielder and Paul N. Alito, on Monday filed …
Heidi N. Moore / Deal Journal:
IBM-Sun: Do They Have a Deal? Does it Matter? — On Monday, the markets started to question whether International Business Machines and Sun Microsystems will really get a deal done. — It was on March 19 that The Wall Street Journal reported that IBM was in talks to acquire Sun Micro.
Michael V. Copeland / Fortune:
Microsoft, the cash cow — The software giant may not be a high-powered growth machine anymore, but it offers financial strength and an attractive yield. — (Fortune Magazine) — With the stock market finally showing that it can go up as well as down, you might be wondering …
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:
Lunch.com brings yet another reviews site to the table — There aren't many new companies launching at this year's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, which runs Tuesday through Friday. One of the few that are is Lunch.com, which strives to get a little more juice out of user-generated publishing.
Tom Lowry / Business Week:
Time Warner Cable Expands Internet Usage Pricing — The newly spun-off cable company will impose premium rates on big users of broadband in Web markets in Texas, New York, and North Carolina — Web users, the meter is running. In a strategy that's likely to rankle consumers but be copied by competitors …
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Cory Doctorow / Guardian:
Authors have lost the plot in Kindle row — Amazon's Kindle 2 text-to-speech feature is not so much violating authors' copyright but rather basic consumer rights — The Amazon Kindle 2's release in February was attended by much fanfare and controversy: Kindle customers were delighted …
Sun-Times Media Group, Inc.:
Sun-Times Media Group Files for Voluntary Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection - Newspaper and Online Operations to Continue as Usual — Sun-Times Media Group, Inc. (Pink Sheets:SUTM) today announced that it and certain affiliates (the “Company") filed voluntary petitions under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
Patrick Galbraith:
What is the official branch of MySQL? — This week, I'm finishing up my book “Developing Web Applications using Perl, memcached, MySQL and Apache”. I just finished up Chapter 1, which is the first chapter where I discuss several things such as how much things have changed in the last ten years …
Stephanie N. Mehta / Fortune:
Online fraud coming to social networks — Investigators are gearing up for the day Twitter and Facebook become tools for financial wrongdoing. — NEW YORK (Fortune) — When it comes to perpetrating market manipulation, insider trading and other financial fraud, wrongdoers …
