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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Dear Google: You Can't Threaten People Into Being Social — There have been signs over the past few months that Google is feeling the pressure to step up its social efforts — the +1 features it announced a week ago being just one of them. But the clearest indication yet is a memo …
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TechCrunch, Stowe Boyd, Geek.com, Computerworld and Examiner
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Mike Elgan / Computerworld:
Larry Page's first blunder — The Google founder is now CEO, and already he's taken a wrong turn on social networking — Computerworld - Eric Schmidt is out at Google. Larry Page is in. I miss Eric already. — Page, who started as CEO on Monday, wasted no time changing the company's focus and direction.
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Search Engine Journal and broadstuff
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Facebook's Open Compute Project — Facebook just released Open Compute Project, their now-public datacenter and server design, optimized for situations in which hundreds or thousands of servers are needed such as the biggest websites and web-hosting companies.
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Amir Michael / Facebook:
Inside the Open Compute Project Server — We launched the Open Compute Project, an effort to nurture industry collaboration on the best practices and implementation of power- and cost-efficient compute infrastructure, yesterday. At the heart of the project lies the Open Compute server …
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SAI, Perspectives and The Register
Stuart Dredge / Apps blog:
Google survey finds games trump all other uses for tablets — Research finds that 84% of tablet owners are playing games, versus 51% who are consuming music and videos — A survey of more than 1,400 tablet owners in the US by Google's AdMob subsidiary has found that gaming is the most popular use …
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Google Mobile Ads Blog, The Huffington Post, Examiner, MediaPost, Electronista, SocialTimes.com, PhoneArena, TUAW, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM and Slashdot
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Facebook Gives Ad.ly's Celebrity Endorsement Business the Boot — Ad.ly thinks there's big money to be made getting celebrities to sell stuff using social media platforms. But it says Facebook won't let it set up shop. — Ad.ly says that at Facebook's insistence, it has stopped selling …
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@jason and The Next Web
Sara Yin / PC Magazine:
‘Anonymous’ Plans Sony Boycott on April 16 — Say you're a hacker trying to cripple a major electronics company for suing its own users: how do you launch a cyberattack without harming the people you're trying to protect? — In the case of hactivist group ‘Anonymous,’ which has spent …
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AfterDawn.com, Examiner, Slashdot and PlayStation LifeStyle
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Buddy Media Report on Facebook Page Posts: Shorter Is Better, but Avoid URL Shorteners — Page management company Buddy Media has released a study based on 200 of its clients illustrating best practices for Facebook Pages looking to increase their fan base's engagement — the volume of Likes and comments their posts receive.
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Buddy Media, Mashable!, Strategic Marketing, MediaPost, ClickZ, The Huffington Post and The Next Web
Jacob Aron / New Scientist:
Internet probe can track you down to within 690 metres — Online adverts could soon start stalking you. A new way of working out where you are by looking at your internet connection could pin down your current location to within a few hundred metres. — Similar techniques are already in use, but they are much less accurate.
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Popular Science, PC Pro, Schneier on Security and WebProNews
Henry Blodget / SAI:
THE SEARCH FOR THE “TWITTER MOLE”: All Eyes On John Doerr — Michael Arrington's report that Google has a “high-level mole” at Twitter has Silicon Valley buzzing. — Arrington said Google was tipped off in advance that Twitter was trying to poach a senior Google engineer and that Google had made a …
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ITProPortal and TG Daily
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Where's the Other Twin Sergey Brin Been During GoogQuake? — Newly restored CEO Larry Page wasted no time in reorganizing Google during his first week on the job, promoting seven executives-most of whom are more techie than manager types-to oversee Google's most important divisions.
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GigaOM and Search Engine Land
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
DOJ defends WikiLeaks probe of Twitter accounts — The U.S. Justice Department today dismissed as “absurd” any privacy and free speech concerns about its request for access to the Twitter accounts of WikiLeaks volunteers. — In a 32-page brief filed in federal court in Virginia …
