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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love — Did you know that blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit? We recently learned that many of our readers did not know this, so I'm going to explain why. — There is an oft-stated misconception that if a user never clicks on ads …
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HotHardware.com News, Rob Sayre's Mozilla Blog, The Loop, Daring Fireball, Ryan Stewart, p2pnet and rc3.org, Thanks:arjo
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Airs First iPad Commercial During Oscars, Steve Jobs at Event [Ad Video Posted] — Apple just aired their first iPad commercial during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. A description of the ad by Doju: — The commercial was just on, depicted a person using the iPad on their lap …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Apple's New Stance On ‘Cookie Cutter’ Apps: Add More Features Or Perish — In the wake of Apple's sudden decision to remove nearly all “sexy” applications from the App Store, we've been hearing that the company is also clamping down on so-called “cookie-cutter” applications …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Foursquare Just Made Your Location History A Lot More Interesting — As has been made abundantly clear to me over the past two weeks, just about every location-based service is planning big things for the SXSW festival, which starts later this week in Austin, Texas.
Will M / All Facebook:
Facebook Ads: “Keywords” Will Change to “Likes and Interests” This Week — Facebook is making a small but profound change to Facebook Ads: “Keywords” will now be known as “Likes and Interests.” The change will be visible in the Facebook Ads interface starting the week of March 8th.
Mary Lou Jepsen / What's Happening at Pixel Qi:
DIY Pixel Qi Kits — Just a quick note to say the DIY kits from our distributor will be available towards the end of Q2. We will be announcing with them prior to distrbution. Thanks for your patience. — One of the reasons I'm personally committed to doing this goes …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Andreessen's Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats” — Legend has it that when Cortes landed in Mexico in the 1500s, he ordered his men to burn the ships that had brought them there to remove the possibility of doing anything other than going forward into the unknown.
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Daily Patricia, Kindle Review, bijan sabet, TomsTechBlog.com, Silicon Alley Insider and TeleRead, Thanks:atul
Mark Landler / New York Times:
U.S. Hopes Internet Exports Will Help Open Closed Societies — WASHINGTON — Seeking to exploit the Internet's potential for prying open closed societies, the Obama administration will permit technology companies to export online services like instant messaging, chat and photo sharing to Iran …
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Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
And BitTorrent's Oscar Goes To.... District 9 — Tonight, Hollywoods biggest stars will walk the red carpet into the Kodak Theater for the Academy Awards ceremony. — In anticipation of the glamorous Oscar night, we enter the dark side of the movie business to find out which of the 10 nominees …
Paul Carr / TechCrunch:
NSFW: Hey, America! Our draconian copyright law could kick your draconian copyright law's ass — I've always had mixed feelings about the DMCA. — On the one hand, as an author, I like that it gives me a way to stop illegal copies of my work being distributed in the US …
murdaFSM / FSMdotCOM:
UK Carrier O2 Updates iPhone Plans And Reveals That iPhone 4G Will Do Video Chat — In the past we talked about the fact that Apple leaks itself, and also we showed you how and why they do that. But before Apple does that, we can benefit from all the mistakes committed by various mobile operators.
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TUAW, The Next Web, TiPb, 9 to 5 Mac, EverythingiCafe, Redmond Pie, Ubergizmo and Distorted-Loop.com
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
What Would You Do For $5? — Fiverr is a marketplace for gigs that are priced at $5. Essentially, you can sell and buy tasks for $5. So anyone can create a gig for small service on the site, and visitors can accept gigs as well. Gig prices are fixed at $5.
