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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
A To Do List For Google's New CEO Larry Page — Welcome back, Larry! When you were last CEO of Google in 2001, the company was a much loved scrappy underdog with a bright future. Ten years later, you're coming back to the helm. Things have changed. You're soon to be steering …
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San Francisco Chronicle, AOL News, Network World, MarketingVOX and NetworkEffect, Thanks:ideaversesg
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Quora:
What should Larry Page focus on now that he is CEO of Google? — 25 Answers — Robert Scoble — I would focus the company on a few key projects: 1. Make Android a real usability leader, not just a marketshare leader. I've been using Android a lot lately, and it simply isn't as nice as iPhone or, even, Windows Phone 7, in usability.
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broadstuff, Reuters and Bloomberg
Vivek Wadhwa / TechCrunch:
Why I Don't Buy the Quora Hype — Let me start with a disclaimer: I am not writing this in my capacity as a university professor or researcher; I don't claim to be an expert on social networking; and I will be happy to be proven wrong—I have no vested interest in the success or failure of Quora.
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, mmoorejones, Mario Sundar, SAI, @jason, @briannorgard, @eghosao, @scobleizer and @johnniemanzari
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Zee / The Next Web:
Sean Parker: The Social Network is a complete work of fiction — Sean Parker and Paulo Coelho's two man panel at DLD raised a number of interesting points about the future of content but it was Coelho's question to Parker on his thoughts on the The Social Network, that grabbed everyone's attention.
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Mashable!, TechCrunch Europe and NBC Bay Area
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Motorola Xoom launching February 17th at Best Buy (update: priced at $700) — When we stumbled upon an $800 price for the Motorola Xoom yesterday, our instinctive reaction was to leap forward to the next obvious question: when? Well, that call has now been answered by an internal Best Buy document that's …
Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Hacker Shows It Doesn't Take $8 Million to Clone Qwiki - Just 321 Lines of HTML Will do the Trick — Qwiki is an app that creates pretty slideshows based on Wikipedia entries. The service won the top award at the last Techcrunch Disrupt conference and just received $8 million in new funding …
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@carnage4life, Pulse2 and ABCNEWS
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Groklaw:
How Not to Get Snookered by Claims of “Proof” of Copyright Infringement — I guess you heard that Florian Mueller is at it again. He made strong claims of a smoking gun regarding alleged copyright infringement of Oracle files by Google. Well, in the cold light of day …
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Guardian, FOSS Patents, SlashGear and Android Community
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Jason Calacanis Starts Promoting Mahalo 4.0 “Pivot” — Jason Calacanis is launching “Mahalo 4.0” on Tuesday, he just said on Quora, “our pivot from human-powered search to....... :-)”. — In other words, Mahalo, his startup, is shifting focus again. — To what? Good question.
R. Colin Johnson / EE Times:
‘Universal’ memory aims to replace flash/DRAM — ‘Universal’ memory aims to replace flash/DRAM — PORTLAND, Ore.—A single “universal” memory technology that combines the speed of DRAM with the non-volatility and density of flash memory was recently invented at North Carolina State University, according to researchers.
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Engadget, PhysOrg.com and Kotaku
Matthew Lee / Associated Press:
US diplomacy embracing Twitter amid global crises — WASHINGTON - The State Department is tightening its embrace of Twitter and other social media as crises grip the Middle East and Haiti, with officials finding new voice, cheek and influence in the era of digital diplomacy.
Thanks:hornokplease
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Windows Phone 7 ‘jailbreakers’ working with Microsoft on homebrew support … Microsoft is currently working with a group of Windows Phone 7 jailbreakers to support homebrew applications after the first Windows Phone update. — Microsoft confirmed earlier this month that the company plans …
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ChevronWP7, GeekSmack, WMPoweruser.com, Redmond Pie and Phones Review
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Music Bay: Pirate Bay Crew Instill More Fear Into The Music Industry — For years The Pirate Bay has been a thorn in the side of the music industry, but things could be about to take a turn for the worse. Over the past days rumors of a new project titled “The Music Bay” have been circling …
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PC Magazine, THINQ.co.uk, The Next Web, Erictric and p2pnet
