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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Firehose May Be Released at Developer Conference F8 — Facebook plans to announce the availability of a firehose of user data at its F8 developers conference in April, we believe based on research. Such an offering could be similar to the firehose that Twitter has shared …
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Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Facebook May Begin Allowing Developers To Store User Data For More Than 24 Hours — Facebook's f8 conference is shaping up to have quite a few improvements in store for developers, and we think we've come across another one: a change to Facebook's data retention policy.
Frederic Lardinois / ReadWriteWeb:
Big Changes Are Coming to Digg: More Power to Publishers, Less Power to Top Diggers — Last night, during Digg's annual SXSW party, Digg's CEO Jay Adelson announced a set of significant changes to Digg. Among the changes Adelson announced are a streamlined submission process …
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Ben Parr / Mashable!:
New Version of Digg Revealed — Update: Here's our follow-up to this story: “Inside the New Digg: An Interview with CEO Jay Adelson.” — At the “Bigg Digg Shindigg” event at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi), Digg CEO Jay Adelson revealed that the popular social bookmarking site …
Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Forbidden Fruit: Microsoft Workers Hide Their iPhones — Steve Ballmer Sours on Apple Product; Work for Ford, Drive a Ford — REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp. employees are passionate users of the latest tech toys. But there is one gadget love that many at the company dare not name: the iPhone.
Eyanir Chinea / Reuters:
Venezuela's Chavez calls for internet controls — (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, who is criticized by media freedom groups, called on Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a website that he said falsely reported the murder of one of his ministers.
Anand Giridharadas / New York Times:
Africa's Gift to Silicon Valley: How to Track a Crisis — Could wiki technology find Osama bin Laden? — Imagine if any Pakistani could send an anonymous text message to the authorities suggesting where to look. Each location could be plotted on a map.
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First Round Capital / Redeye VC:
Some more thoughts on innovation in eCommerce — I had the chance to speak on a panel about Online Shopping at a NextNY event this week. And after a great discussion, I started talking with some folks about my last blog post (which commented on how little has changed in online shopping since …
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David M. Cummings / Los Angeles Times:
Haven't found that software glitch, Toyota? Keep trying — An electronics problem isn't to blame for the sudden acceleration, say the carmaker's engineers. That's nearly impossible to conclusively determine through laboratory tests. — There has been a lot of speculation recently …
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
OMGConan: The big Digg party Twitter hoax — On Saturday night, Twitter rang out with news that Conan O'Brien was joining Internet TV network Revision3. The only problem? It was a huge hoax. — AUSTIN, Texas—Did you hear that Conan O'Brien, fresh off his ugly divorce with NBC …
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Robin Chase / New York Times:
Op-Ed Contributor: Collecting real-time data from cars could save lives. — IN the wake of the Congressional hearings on the Toyota recalls, we have heard various proposals for countering unintended acceleration in automobiles. — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood recently …
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft set to launch beta of Silverlight for Symbian — In March 2008, Microsoft and Nokia announced their commitment to make Silverlight available for certain Nokia phones running the Symbian operating system. Microsoft is finally ready to make a beta of that code available.
