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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
The Media Attacks On Facebook And Mark Zuckerberg Are Getting Out Of Hand — Friday is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's 26th birthday. My guess is he's won't be enjoying it as much as he should, given that the top tech story of the day is a look at a private instant message exchange he supposedly had six or seven years ago at Harvard.
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Dear Mark Zuckerberg: — It's clear you are having some PR issues with the changes you've made to Facebook. — Folks like Leo Laporte deleted their accounts. Jason Calacanis is making page view budgets because of these problems. Jeff Jarvis is taunting you on Twitter.
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won't Help Facebook's Privacy Problems — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his company are suddenly facing a big new round of scrutiny and criticism about their cavalier attitude toward user privacy. — An early instant messenger exchange Mark had with a college friend …
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Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld:
Mum's the word from all-hands Facebook company meeting on privacy — Facebook execs not saying if changes will be made to the social network's privacy policies — Computerworld - Right out of the gates, Facebook is staying mum about what went on during its all-hands-on-deck company privacy meeting late on Thursday.
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Why Mark Zuckerberg needs to come clean about his views on privacy
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MediaPost, All Facebook, Gawker, L.A. Times Tech Blog, PC World, internetnews.com, BetaNews, Download Squad, The Huffington Post and Computerworld, Thanks:aragni
VentureBeat:
Acer to launch Chrome OS devices in two weeks (exclusive) — It's been some time since we received any new details on Chrome OS, Google's web-focused operating system for netbooks. But that's about to change in a couple weeks. We've learned from multiple sources that the Taiwanese computer …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Chrome OS Coming Along Quickly, But Not Ready Just Yet — A report today on VentureBeat says that Acer will unveil the first Chrome OS devices in two weeks. While that certainly could happen, don't expect the OS to be finished, and don't expect those devices to launch anytime soon.
Tom Krazit / CNET News:
Google executives reflect on year at annual meeting — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Google executives faced little hostility at the company's annual stockholder meeting Thursday, other than a familiar complaint: it's hard to call people at Google. — Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt presided …
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Adobe Co-Founder: We Never Abandoned Apple, but Apple Is Abandoning Us — A couple of weeks ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs published “Thoughts on Flash,” a 1,671-word execration of Adobe's Flash platform. — On Thursday, Adobe co-founders and co-chairmen Chuck Geschke and John Warnock followed suit with some thoughts of their own.
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Lev Popov / Facebook Blog:
Staying in Control of Your Facebook Logins — At Facebook, we're constantly working on new ways to protect you from scams and help you keep your account and information secure. Today, we're announcing some new tools and systems designed to keep the bad guys out and keep you abreast …
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Eugene Wei / Hulu Blog:
Pardon Our Dust — Today we're releasing several exciting updates to Hulu, most notably a new version of the Hulu video player. We've posted an overview of the new player, complete with an introductory video, here. And you can experience the changes for yourself throughout the site.
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Fast Company, The Register, Engadget, Digital Trends, CrunchGear, CNET News, VentureBeat, NewTeeVee, Silicon Alley Insider and Gizmodo
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Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Hulu: HTML5 Isn't Ready for Prime Time
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Alex Wilhelm / TNW Social Media:
New Social Networking Darling Diaspora* Has An Idea Problem — To begin, congratulations to the Diaspora* team on their initial fundraising success. I fully appreciate the sentiment behind their project; they have touched a nerve among the thousands of people who feel jilted by Facebook's recent actions.
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Diaspora, The Open Facebook Alternative, Soars Past $50,000 …
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VentureBeat, The Social, Computerworld, Mashable!, This is going to be BIG!, ReadWriteStart and Techi.com
Michael Gartenberg / SlashGear:
Two weeks of travel, Ten iPad lessons — A while back, I tried traveling on business with nothing but the help of three smart phones. I quickly ran into the headroom of those devices and, by the time I was home, I had a huge list of tasks I needed to deal with that could only be done on a computer.
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Michael VanDeMar / Smackdown!:
Hosting With GoDaddy? Might Want To Rethink That Decision. — One of the services I offer people is cleaning their Wordpress installations of hacks and infections, mostly for those who might not have the time or technical expertise to follow my hacked Wordpress cleaning guide.
Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:
Apple Reveals a Powerful Location-Based Service for the iPhone — Within the sixteen patent applications that were published by the US Patent & Trademark Office for Apple Inc today, a single gem emerged. It's a very powerful new concept for a location based application service …
Cliff Edwards / Bloomberg:
Sony Considers Developing a Tablet Computer to Compete With Apple's IPad — Sony Corp. is considering developing a tablet-style computer that would compete with Apple Inc.'s iPad, though it wants more evidence consumers will buy them, a company executive said.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Let's Try This Again: How Much Web Video Is Really iPad-Ready? — Steve Jobs says there's no reason to cling to Flash video on the Web, because most Web video also works on the H.264/HTML5 standard he's supporting. — But Adobe (ADBE) says the majority of the Web's video uses its Flash standard.
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Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
How Much Web Video Is iPad-Ready? About Two-Thirds. Really.
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John Letzing / MarketWatch:
Yahoo's massive new headquarters plan approved — SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Yahoo Inc. won approval Tuesday night from local officials to build a massive, 3 million-square-foot office campus in the heart of Silicon Valley, an ambitious project envisioned in the midst of the company's ongoing turnaround effort.
comScore, Inc.:
Americans Received 1 Trillion Display Ads in Q1 2010 as Online Advertising Market Rebounds from 2009 Recession — Facebook Was Top Display Ad Publisher in Q1, AT&T Ranked as Top Advertiser — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released an overview …
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