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Lev Grossman / Time:
Person of the Year 2010: Mark Zuckerberg — On the afternoon of Nov. 16, 2010, Mark Zuckerberg was leading a meeting in the Aquarium, one of Facebook's conference rooms, so named because it's in the middle of a huge work space and has glass walls on three sides so everybody can see in.
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Richi Jennings / Computerworld:
In snub to WikiLeaks, Zuckerberg wins TIME Person of Year 2010 — Richi's rant regarding rank ridiculousness. Why bother having a vote if you're going to ignore the result? WikiLeaks' Assange should have won, not Zuckerberg. — It's mid-December, which means it's TIME Magazine's Person of the Year time again.
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Larry Yang / The Official Google TV Blog:
What's new with Google TV? — It's been two months since the first Google TV device went on sale. Since then, we have been hard at work thinking about how we can make the platform even better for our users. In fact, one of the greatest things about Google TV is that it comes with free …
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Milo Medin / The Official Google Blog:
An update on Google Fiber — Earlier this year we announced an experiment we hope will help make Internet access better and faster for everyone: to provide a community with ultra high-speed broadband, 100 times faster than what most people have access to today.
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Mike Swift / Mercury News:
Google names broadband head, delays city choice for high-speed network
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Steven Pearlstein / Washington Post:
Time to loosen Google's grip? — In case you hadn't noticed, Google isn't just a Web search company any longer. In addition to online advertising, it's moving into operating system and application software, mobile telephone software, e-mail, Web browsers, maps, and video aggregation.
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Hillicon Valley, GigaOM, Post Tech and Between the Lines Blog
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Don Harrison / Google Public Policy Blog:
Acquisitions and antitrust — As we've said before, we understand that as Google grows, we're going to face more questions about how our business works. We recognize the responsibility we have, and we are always open to hearing ideas about how we can improve.
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Between the Lines Blog, TechFlash and Search Engine Land
Matt Kelly / Facebook Blog:
Reality TV for the Rest of Us — We've all been there—spending hours in front of the TV, getting lost clicking through hundreds of channels, just to realize that you haven't really watched anything at all. The best way to stay out of the TV weeds is to get recommendations from your friends …
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Craig Labovitz / Arbor Networks Security:
The Internet Goes to War — If you weren't paying attention recently, the Internet has gone to war. — ABC News proclaimed “Welcome to Infowar, Version 1.0″. Fox warned of the “growing data war”. And the Guardian provided minute by minute coverage on the opening salvos of this first “Internet-wide Cyber War”.
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New York Times:
YouTube Is Said to Be in Talks to Buy Next New Networks — SAN FRANCISCO — YouTube, the video site owned by Google, is in talks to buy Next New Networks, a Web video production company, according to two people briefed on the discussions. The acquisition would be YouTube's first major foray …
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Julie Bosman / New York Times:
E-Readers With Color Open Door for Pictures — Millions of consumers have embraced black-and-white e-readers like the Kindle for reading simple novels or nonfiction — but books with color illustrations have generally remained better read in print. — Now publishers are making headway …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Twitter Launches Online Form to Buy Ads, Trending Topics & More — The business end of Twitter has revamped its website tonight and it now includes a form that companies can use to express interest in purchasing Promoted Accounts, Promoted Tweets or Promoted Trends.
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Theo de Raadt / MARC:
Allegations regarding OpenBSD IPSEC — I have received a mail regarding the early development of the OpenBSD IPSEC stack. It is alleged that some ex-developers (and the company they worked for) accepted US government money to put backdoors into our network stack, in particular the IPSEC stack.
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Sam Varghese / iTWire:
Developer claims FBI implemented backdoors in OpenBSD
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Google Chrome Blog:
Chrome is Ready for Business — When we announced that Chrome is now used by over 120 million users and showed off some of its latest features last week, we saw a tremendous amount of excitement from both users and businesses. Many businesses asked how they can get the benefits of increased security …
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Peter-Paul Koch / A List Apart:
Smartphone Browser Landscape — Users expect websites to work on their mobile phones. In two to three years, mobile support will become standard for any site. Web developers must add mobile web development to their skill set or risk losing clients. — How do you make websites mobile compatible?
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Kara Swisher / BoomTown:
Here's Carol Bartz's Internal Layoff Memo to Beleaguered Yahoo Troops — It's Yahoo, it's BoomTown and so it's an internal memo from CEO Carol Bartz to staff about the layoffs at the Silicon Valley Internet giant yesterday. — Here it is:
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Erica Sadun / TUAW:
Hacksugar: Mac-based AirPlay service allows device-to-Mac playback — AirPlay is a very, very cool technology. Unfortunately, if you don't own an Apple TV 2 or other capable receiving device, it's not going to do you much good. (If you have the cash on-hand, for $99, the Apple TV mark 2 is a pretty sweet purchase.
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Joseph Galante / Bloomberg:
EBay Buys Critical Path Software, Doubling Size of Mobile Team — Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) — EBay Inc. acquired Critical Path Software Inc., a developer of smartphone applications, to accelerate its lead in mobile commerce. — The acquisition doubles the size of EBay's mobile team …
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Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Amazon's latest Kindle deletion: erotic, incest-themed fiction — Amazon may be in the process of stirring up some more trouble for itself thanks to reports that the company is deleting certain kinds of erotica from both the online store and users' devices.
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Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Yahoo Video No Longer Accepts Video Uploads — It looks like Yahoo is making significant changes to its YouTube-like video site, Yahoo Video. According to a notice on the site, Yahoo will be removing the ability for users to upload a video to the site, and will be removing all user-generated content …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Market America Acquires Bill Gates-Backed Shopping Site Shop.com — Internet marketing and product brokerage company Market America has acquired Shop.com, an online comparison shopping engine provider. Financial terms of the deal remain undisclosed. — MarketAmerica.com and Shop.com …
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Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat:
Why does Zipcar need an extra $21M before it goes public? — Zipcar, a car-sharing service that lets people rent cars by the hour, announced today that it has raised an additional $21 million in its seventh round of funding led by Meritech Capital Partners.
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Matt Rosoff / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Google Wanted To Buy Spotify, But Internal Fighting Stopped It — Google was close to buying a subscription-based streaming music service - either Spotify or Rhapsody, according to a source with knowledge of Google's music plans. — But there were three different groups vying for control …
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