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Aaron Wall / SEO Book.com:
Google Kills eHow Competitors, eHow Rankings Up — Economics Drive Literally Everything Media is all about profit margins. eHow was originally founded in 1998 & had $36 million in venture capital behind it. But the original cost structure was flawed due to high content costs.
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Quora, SISTRIX, Scobleizer, Search Engine Watch, @mathewi, @jillwhalen and @carnage4life
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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Number Crunchers: Who Lost In Google's “Farmer” Algorithm Change? — On Thursday, Google announced a major change to its search algorithm, designed to weed out shallow and low-quality content from its top search results. Content farms were seen by many as the target. Were they hit? Who was hit?
Thanks:keithdsouza
The Technium:
Free Kindle This November — In October 2009 John Walkenbach noticed that the price of the Kindle was falling at a consistent rate, lowering almost on a schedule. By June 2010, the rate was so unwavering that he could easily forecast the date at which the Kindle would be free: November 2011.
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Examiner, Trends in the Living Networks, TeleRead and Novelr
Mark Suster / TechCrunch:
What's The Real Deal With AngelList? — Editor's Note: This is a guest post by @msuster (Mark Suster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. His second company was sold this company to Salesforce.com, where he served as VP of Product Management. Read more about Suster at Bothsidesofthetable.
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@davepell, @peterchane, Quora and Scobleizer, Thanks:msuster
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Bryce Roberts / BRYCE DOT VC:
Why I Deleted My AngelList Account
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@shervin, @naval, @jason, @scobleizer and @msuster
Anne Eisenberg / New York Times:
Moonlighting Within Microsoft, in Pursuit of New Apps — IF you have a smartphone, you probably have apps on it to check the news, play games, help with shopping or further a hobby like travel or bird-watching. But chances are that you don't yet have Bubblegum — a new app that lets …
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ABCNEWS:
Libya's ‘Love Revolution’: Muslim Dating Site Seeds Protest — Coded Love Letters Help Opposition Members Organize Protest — When Omar Shibliy Mahmoudi exchanged sweet nothings on the Muslim dating site Mawada, it wasn't for love but for liberty. — To avoid detection by Libyan secret police …
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Sify.com and Internet Evolution
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Feature: Anonymous vs. HBGary: the aftermath — The RSA security conference took place February 14-18 in San Francisco, and malware response company HBGary planned on a big announcement. The firm was about to unveil a new appliance called “Razor,” a specialized computer plugged …
Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
Find my Mac coming in 10.7 Lion? — Did you think Apple was done announcing the new features coming in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion? Did you think Apple was done bringing features from iOS to the Mac? Well, they're not, and here's a big one that might be coming this Summer with Lion: Find my Mac.
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Apple Bitch, Electronista, Electronista, AllNewsMac and iClarified
Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Verizon still mum on iPhone sales — “Usually, if they sell a lot of something, you want to tell everybody.” — Verizon iPhone launch day. Photo: Chris B. — That's what Steve Jobs had to say in 2009 about sales figures for the Kindle — which, it bears repeating, Amazon (AMZN) has still never revealed.
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MobileBurn.com and Neowin.net
John Kennedy / Global Voices in English:
China: Jasmine Revolution, Week Two — A week after small protests took place in Beijing and Shanghai and failed to materialize in the other 11 cities mentioned in the anonymous blog post which sought to spark a Jasmine Revolution in China, a second round of protests are scheduled for today in 23 cities across China.
Matt Peckham / PC World:
Nintendo 3DS Launches in Japan Amidst Tales of Lines, Sellouts, and ‘Eye Pain’ — Nintendo's bid to put glasses-free 3D into the anxious hands of the masses just got underway in Japan. The company's 3DS—sequel to the DS and DSi, and employing a new 3.53-inch widescreen that uses parallax barrier tech …
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Examiner, Bloomberg, Japan Real Time and VentureBeat
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
The Socialized and Appified Oscars — It's not just that movie about social networking that will be featured at this weekend's Oscars. There are also social media and mobile app tie-ins up the wazoo. Here's a sampling of what's up for the big night: — Fans can tweet and Facebook post …
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Gizmodo, The Next Web, Mashable!, Search Engine Watch, ReelSEO Online Video …, ReadWriteWeb, TUAW and CNN
