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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 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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TechCrunch Europe, /Message, Conversation Agent, Techtonic Shifts, CircleID, Silicon Alley Insider, DailyFinance, PC World and Download Squad
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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.
Telegraph:
EU criticises Facebook privacy changes
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Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, PC Magazine, Agence France Presse, OUT-LAW News and BetaNews
Nicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Well, These New Zuckerberg IMs Won't Help Facebook's Privacy Problems
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The Register, The Huffington Post, DVICE, Gawker, Thomas Hawk Digital Connection, PC World, @vanelsas, ResourceShelf, /Message, msnbc.com, NBC Bay Area, Gizmodo, MediaPost and VentureBeat
Kim-Mai Cutler / VentureBeat:
Why Mark Zuckerberg needs to come clean about his views on privacy
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Bloomberg, MediaPost, Gawker, All Facebook, Search Engine Land, L.A. Times Tech Blog, internetnews.com, The Huffington Post, Computerworld and Voices on All Things Digital, 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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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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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Adobe, You Brought An Advertisement To A Gun Fight — Adobe, no one seems to want to say this to you, but I will. Stop it, you're embarrassing yourself. — You've just spent God-knows how much money on an ad buy that blankets much of the technology press (including this site).
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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Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Wi-Fi Sync app rejected by Apple, headed to Cydia for $9.99 — Can't say we're surprised to hear that Apple rejected Greg Hughes' Wi-Fi Sync app. You know, the app that allows you to wireless sync your iPhone / iPod touch with iTunes without having to USB tether to your computer.
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AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, Gizmodo, EverythingiCafe, App Advice, Gadget Lab, Fonehome.co.uk, MacRumors, SlashGear, T3.com News, Geekword, Phones Review and Ubergizmo
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Cellphones Now Used More for Data Than for Calls — Liza Colburn uses her cellphone constantly. She taps out her grocery lists, records voice memos, listens to music at the gym, tracks her caloric intake and posts frequent updates to her Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear:
Dell's Streak micro-tablet to hit Europe in June, US “later this summer” — I'm not sure who among you is really pumped about a 5-inch tablet when we've got phones approaching that size, but hey, diff'rent tablets for diff'rent... users, right? It looked okay when we saw it a while back …
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Computerworld, Obsessable, Boy Genius Report, eWeek, Engadget, Android Phone Fans, Android Central, SlashGear, Electricpig.co.uk, Electronista, Go Rumors, Ubergizmo and Pocket-lint
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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Ryan Lawler / NewTeeVee:
Hulu: HTML5 Isn't Ready for Prime Time
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O'Grady's PowerPage, MediaMemo, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, Silicon Alley Insider, Boy Genius Report, Delve Networks Blog, CrunchGear, ReadWriteWeb, SlashGear, MacDailyNews, MediaPost, CenterNetworks, Maximum PC, Gizmodo and Edible Apple, Thanks:natehermes
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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Robert McMillan / Computerworld:
Facebook IDs hacker who tried to sell 1.5M accounts
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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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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Copywriter Uses People's Incessant Self-Googling to Get a Job — If there is one common current that runs throughout all of humanity, it is that everyone Googles themselves all day, every day. Humans are vain creatures! Copywriter Alec Brownstein used this fact to get a job via Google AdWords.
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.
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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