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Ryan Tate / Gawker:
Steve Jobs Offers World ‘Freedom From Porn’ — I didn't plan to pick a fight with Steve Jobs last night. It just sort of happened: An iPad advertisement ticked me off; I sent the Apple CEO an angry email; he told me about “freedom from porn.” — The electronic debate proceeded from there.
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danah boyd / apophenia:
Facebook is a utility; utilities get regulated — From day one, Mark Zuckerberg wanted Facebook to become a social utility. He succeeded. Facebook is now a utility for many. The problem with utilities is that they get regulated. — Yesterday, I ranted about Facebook and “radical transparency.”
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Stowe Boyd / /Message:
Facebook Apologists Miss The Point: Facebook Isn't The Future — As the Facebook ‘privacygate’ affair swells and swells, most recently fed by the leaking of Zuckerberg instant messages from years ago, various members of the tech commentariat are starting to come forward to defend Zuckerberg and suggest that the media have gone too far.
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TechnoLlama
Michael Calore / Webmonkey:
New ‘OpenID Connect’ Proposal Could Solve Many of the Social Web's Woes — David Recordon, one of the key architects of OpenID and other identity technologies that have emerged over the past five years, has envisioned a new direction for OpenID. — His proposal, which was drafted with input …
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Apple MacBook refresh leaked in Vietnam (video) — We're not sure what's going on in Vietnam these days but it's suddenly a hot bed for industry leaks. Perhaps it's due to manufacturers expanding from China to Vietnam's relatively cheap (but limited) labor pool?
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Tweets In Buzz: It's Complicated — Well, Maybe Political — Yesterday, I moderated a panel at TiEcon featuring the heads of product for Google, Twitter, and Facebook — an interesting group, obviously. It was a good, long discussion (hopefully I'll have the full video to post soon).
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
10 juicy details from the iPhone affidavit — How the cops cracked the case of the missing fourth-generation prototype, step by step — Click to enlarge. Source: San Mateo Superior Court — Here's what we know now that we didn't know before the court released a San Mateo detective's 10-page sworn statement of facts:
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Anne-Marie Corley / IEEE Spectrum:
Optical Transistor Is a Step Toward the Quantum Internet — Scientists demonstrate a technique to make quantum information sharing possible — Laser Maze: Max Planck researcher Martin Muecke oversees the optics setup for electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) laser elements.
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PC World
Eric Eldon / Inside Social Games:
Facebook's Offers Experiment Continues to Expand — Offers are becoming more broadly available as part of Facebook's Credits virtual currency expansion, after having first launched as a stand-alone integration within games like CrowdStar's Happy Island last month.
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Frances Martel / Mediaite:
Bill Maher Thinks The Government Would Work Better If It Was Run By Apple — Bill Maher's public disillusion with President Barack Obama continued on last night's Real Time, where Maher expressed confusion at the fact that the President was now denouncing technology, a reference …
Mike Dano / FierceMobileContent:
Grading the top 10 U.S. carriers in the first quarter of 2010 — The following charts the top 10 U.S. wireless carriers in the first quarter of 2010 by subscriber base, according to research firm Strategy Analytics, and includes major metrics—such as churn, ARPU and revenue—of each carrier.
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Know Your Cell
Mark Bowden / The Atlantic Online:
The Enemy Within — When the Conficker computer “worm” was unleashed on the world in November 2008, cyber-security experts didn't know what to make of it. It infiltrated millions of computers around the globe. It constantly checks in with its unknown creators.
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