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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Obama Spurns Silicon Valley Vets, Names Virginia's Secretary of Technology As CTO — President Obama will be naming Aneesh Paul Chopra as his choice for CTO during tomorrow's weekly address, as first reported by the Washington Post and confirmed in this press release posted to the White House's official web site.
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Micah L. Sifry / techPresident:
Obama Names Aneesh Chopra US's First CTO — Looks like instead of mocking Nancy Scola, we owe her kudos for predicting all the way back in November that Obama's pick for the nation's first Chief Technology Officer would be “someone out of the small but vibrant government CTO world …
Anthony Ha / VentureBeat:
Good luck with that funding: Q1 sees lowest VC investment in more than a decade — There are two new reports about the state of venture capital investing during the first three months of 2009, and they're even bleaker than I expected. Remember when everyone was hoping that the economic downturn …
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Bernard Lunn / ReadWriteWeb:
VC Investment in Internet Deals Did NOT Fall Off A Cliff — This data comes from the MoneyTree™ Report from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), based on data provided by Thomson Reuters. Their press release sounds kind of gloomy: — Sponsor
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Andy Greenberg / Forbes:
Why Google Is The New Pirate Bay — If the site goes away, search engines could become the new starting points for digital pirates. — This week has offered a hard lesson for pirates, both water- and Web-based: Keep a low profile and your illicit business can flourish.
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Chris Williams / The Register:
BT chief: People don't need fibre to the home — Ford not Ferrari for you — Digital Britain Summit BT chief executive Ian Livingstone defended his firm's limited plans for faster broadband today, arguing there is not enough demand for fibre to the home to justify its cost.
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Hulu iPhone App Coming Soon, ‘Badass’ — Hulu is in the process of developing an app for Apple's (AAPL) iPhone and iPod touch, we have learned from a plugged-in industry executive. The app is coming soon (within a few months) and is “badass” — as excellent as Hulu's Web site.
Owen Thomas / Gawker:
Oprah Fails to Tweet on Her Big Twitter Show — How could one possibly make Twitter even more of an exercise in self-absorption? How about by broadcasting yourself on national TV while using Twitter? Oprah's big Twitter show is on right now and we're watching. — The show starts with Oprah excited about joining Twitter.
Eran Hammer-Lahav / Hueniverse:
Introducing ‘Sign-in with Twitter’, OAuth-Style “Connect” — Yesterday Twitter released ‘Sign-in with Twitter’, the ability to use Twitter as a delegated sign-in provider for third-party websites. The cool thing about this new feature, which is part of their OAuth API beta, is that it is completely standard OAuth.
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
A Better Calling Card: Twitter Challenges Facebook Connect — In the old days, self-important people use to carry calling cards. Now we have Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites to turn us all into mini-celebrities. So what's the new calling card online?
Paul Boutin / Industry Standard:
The media's fake Twitter backlash begins — If you've been waiting for the inevitable Twitter backlash, the fun starts now. Sure, CNN ran an “is there a Twitter backlash?” story last month. But for those of us who work in the media, we knew the question mark in the headline meant the answer was “No.”
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Gmail Blog:
New in Labs: Suggest more recipients — Have you ever realized you mistakenly left someone important out of an email, or just spent too much time trying to decide who from your long list of contacts to include? Well, some of us on the Gmail team feel your pain, so we wrote a new Gmail Labs feature called “Suggest more recipients.”
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Google Operating System, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Lifehacker, Download Squad, CNET News and Network World, Thanks:atul
Pamela Samuelson / O'Reilly Radar:
Legally Speaking: The Dead Souls of the Google Booksearch Settlement — Guest blogger Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law and Information at the University of California, Berkeley, as well as a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology …
Tony Wright / Tony Wright dot com:
Just How Important is the Valley? Let's Look at some Data. — [Edit: Added the raw data in a table at the end] — Some of the smartest startup brains I've ever met have said that if you want to be in the startup game, you MUST be in the Valley. There are plenty of justifications out there for it …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
iPhone app lets you get away with napping at work — A new iPhone app lets you nap at work in your cubicle without fear of being caught. — The iNap@Work app makes office-like “productivity noises” so that your co-workers will hear a constant din of activity coming from your space.
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Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Public Provides Giggles; Bloggers Get the Book Deal — After Duncan Birmingham, a comedy screenwriter in Los Angeles, got one too many holiday cards featuring miserable-looking pets wearing fake reindeer antlers, he realized the photos were great material for a blog.
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Paul Miller / Engadget:
Bridgestone's 13-inch color e-paper display handles pen input, has the future written all over it — While it'll always be difficult to accept innovative technology from a company that makes our tires, there's just no faulting Bridgestone's work in the e-paper space, or their latest color entry, above.
Rupal Parekh / AdAge:
WPP Sues Spot Runner for Securities Fraud, Breach of Contract — Accuses Agency of ‘Pump and Dump’ Stock Scheme — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — WPP has filed a lawsuit against Spot Runner, the Los Angeles self-service ad creator in which it has a stake, as well as the agency's chairman-CEO …
Caterina.net:
Hunch data — We've been busy. Since we launched Hunch, over 4.3 million questions have been answered, counting both THAY questions (Teach Hunch About You) and topic question/answers. This is phenomenal, and gives us a ton of data to work with. In the past, statistical prediction …
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Eric Engleman / TechFlash:
Amazon's Jeff Bezos on Kindle sales and The Karate Kid — Amazon.com released CEO Jeff Bezos' 2008 annual letter to shareholders today. Among the highlights: Bezos says sales of the electronic Kindle reader “have exceeded our most optimistic expectations.”
Fred / A VC:
The Power Of Passed Links — Links are the currency of the web. That's the reason that Google is the king of the web right now. Google generates more click thrus to more websites than any other web service out there. — But I've been ruminating on a comment that was left on my earned media post a few weeks ago by Ben Straley.
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