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Justin Smith / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Launches OpenID Support - Users Can Now Login With Gmail Accounts — Last month, Facebook announced that users would soon be able to login to the site via OpenID. Today, Facebook has officially become an OpenID relying party: users can now register for Facebook using their Gmail accounts …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:The Dam Just Broke: Facebook Opens Up to OpenID
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Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:
Twitter sees tools, not ads, for revenue — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Twitter is working on various ways to make money from its fast-growing microblogging service, but advertising is an option that is not currently being considered. — Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said on Monday that the company …
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Scott Morrison / Wall Street Journal:
Google Searches for Staffing Answers — Concerned a brain drain could hurt its long-term ability to compete, Google Inc. is tackling the problem with its typical tool: an algorithm. — The Internet search giant recently began crunching data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories …
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Jim Dalrymple / CNET News:
Stanford's free iPhone course hits 1 million downloads — Stanford University on Monday said its free iPhone Application Programming course has been downloaded more than 1 million times since being uploaded to Apple's iTunes U—a learning-focused area of iTunes—seven weeks ago.
Joel Johnson / Boing Boing Gadgets:
Welcome, Wired. We call this land “Internet” — Here's the problem with Wired: They think print matters. Background: Stephanie Clifford warns that Wired may be about to die. Ad sales are down 50%, putting it just above Power and Motoryacht at the bottom of Condé Nast's portfolio of magazines.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Harvard prof tells judge that P2P filesharing is “fair use” — Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson is headed to federal court this summer to defend an accused file-swapper, and he plans to mount a novel defense: P2P sharing is simply “fair use.” — Wholesale copying of music on P2P networks is fair use.
Greg Kumparak / MobileCrunch:
Apple Begins Stress Testing Push Notification Servers — And so it begins. With WWDC and presumably the release of iPhone OS 3.0 just around the corner, Apple has deemed it time to begin stress-testing their Push Notification servers. We just received a letter from a (very) trusted source …
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Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Dell launches netbooks for education market — Netbook computers for web browsing and emailing are taking off like wildfire, and now Dell has thrown its hat in the ring with a netbook for the education market. — The new Dell Latitude 2100 has a 10.1-inch screen and a touch-screen surface designed for student-teacher interaction.
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Jim / craigslist blog:
An Apology Is In Order — Dear South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster, — Two days ago you accused craigslist, and me personally, of engaging in criminal acts, reiterating your previous threat to file unwarranted and unconstitutional charges against us that are clearly barred by federal law.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Hearst: Zombie Seattle Paper Doing Better Than the Original — I'm still on record predicting the demise of seattlepi.com-the online-only zombie version of the erstwhile Seattle Post-Intelligencer. My gut is that even though the Hearst-owned site has an edit staff 80 percent smaller …
Mark Milian / L.A. Times Tech Blog:
Twitter creator Jack Dorsey on user retention, Facebook comparisons — Twitter creator Jack Dorsey says the service needs to do a better job of hooking new users. Credit: carrotcreative via Flickr — The mastermind behind Twitter isn't denying that his website has a problem keeping new users.
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Glympse: A Hassle And Worry-Free Way To Share Your Location, Minus The Social Network — We've all been there. You're late for a meeting with friends, stuck in traffic and unsure of when you're actually going to arrive. You call them with updates like “well, I'm closer now, but still not sure …
Rafe Needleman / The Download Blog:
Flock 2.5 launches with support for Twitter, more services — Statistically, Flock is probably not for you. This Web browser, the 2.5 version of which is coming out today, is “designed to be the essential browser for the most active 25 percent of users,” Flock CEO Shawn Hardin tells me.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Mobile Abandons Its Smartphone App To Focus On The iPhone — Score another one for the iPhone. Yahoo is abandoning its mobile app for the Blackberry and other smartphones in order to focus more on its recently relaunched iPhone app. For every other phone, it is concentrating …
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Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
Slim PS3 update: mysterious Chinese firm issues a cease and desist... to Engadget — You know, one of these days, someone at one of these big companies is going to get this right. If you send a cease and desist about “leaked” photos of a supposed device, you're basically saying, “Hey guys, those pictures are real.”
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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
MySpace Is In Real Trouble If These Page View Declines Don't Reverse — We've all been closely watching the total user number for MySpace and Facebook and trying to predict the date that MySpace's last stronghold will fall - no. 1 in U.S. social networking users.
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Andrew Nusca / The Toybox:
Is Windows 7 really too expensive? — It's not even on store shelves yet, but Windows 7 might come with a price tag that may be a higher hurdle than expected for some early adopters. — Windows 7 is beating Vista in just about every other aspect, but the expected higher average selling price …
Dan Goodin / The Register:
OpenSSH chink bares encrypted data packets — One in 262,144 chance = good odds — Free whitepaper - Cashing in on banking security and compliance — Cryptographers are urging users of a widely employed network protocol to make sure they're running the latest version after discovering …
Joe Sharkey / New York Times:
The Race to Provide Wi-Fi at 30,000 Feet — SOME airlines are rushing to offer Wi-Fi Internet connections in their domestic aircraft cabins, but none are talking about the space squeeze. — On an AirTran Airways Wi-Fi demonstration flight that went up and back down the Northeast seaboard …
AppleInsider:
Series of YouTube videos show off Apple's Snow Leopard — A YouTube user going by the name ‘LeopardOctober’ has recently posted over a half dozen videos taken from recent pre-release builds of Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system, showing off everything from QuickLook movie playback to the new QuickTime X interface.
Linuxpundit / LinuxPundit Weblog:
Netbooks: Up from Phones, Not Down from Notebooks — Last week I began a discussion of whether Linux will survive as an OS for netbooks. I received a number of comments, some highlighting which netbook OEMs favored which Linux distros, other despairing at the paucity of verifiable market numbers (a distress that I share).
Rich Miller / Data Center Knowledge:
Facebook: $20 Million a Year on Data Centers — A look at the fully-packed racks inside a Facebook data center facility. — Facebook appears to be spending $20 million to $25 million a year for the data center space that houses its servers, according to an analysis of the company's data center infrastructure.
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Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider:
Supreme Court May Kill Sarbanes Oxley And Resurrect IPO Market! — One reason Silicon Valley is struggling is that there's no longer an IPO market. This is making it difficult for VCs to exit investments, putting pressure on company valuations, making it harder to hire and retain people, driving companies to the London markets, etc.
Ian Deitch / Associated Press:
Israeli intelligence issues Facebook warning — Israel's internal intelligence service urged the public Monday to exercise caution when using Facebook, saying Arabs are trying to recruit spies on the popular social networking site. — The Shin Bet security agency warned Israelis …
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Nate Lanxon / CNET News:
Google builds Street View trikes to map UK footpaths — To advance its Street View service this summer, Google is poised to unleash the unstoppable power of human legs. — Traditionally, the average road car finds it problematic to traverse the terrain of the British footpath. But bicycles do not.
Connie Loizos / PE Hub Blog:
Peter Thiel On Valleywag; It's the “Silicon Valley Equivalent of Al Qaeda” — Peter Thiel is known for many things, from his hedge fund, Clarium Capital, to his venture capital firm, Founders Fund, to his role as the original CEO of PayPal — whose 2002 sale to eBay famously netted Thiel, then 34, roughly $60 million.
