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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Has Stopped Street View Photography In Germany — In most locations, Google sends its Street View cars out on a repeated basis “to make sure the information is accurate and kept up to date,” as the Street View website explains. — But that's not happening in Germany.
Electronista:
Maine school district buys iPad 2s for every kindergartner — Young students in Auburn, Maine will be using cutting edge technology right from the start of their school experience: the district has bought 285 iPad 2s to use for each kindergartner and teacher in the classrooms.
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9 to 5 Mac, CrunchGear, Techland, TUAW, MacStories and Cult of Mac
Farhad Manjoo / Slate:
No More Privacy Paranoia — Last week the Federal Trade Commission and Google signed a broad privacy settlement that requires the search company to submit to “privacy audits” every two years. The agreement ended a dispute that began last year, when Google launched Buzz, the ill-fated social-messaging system built into Gmail.
Jenna Wortham / New York Times:
Feel Like a Wallflower? Maybe It's Your Facebook Wall — ONE recent rainy night, I curled up on my couch with popcorn and Netflix Instant, ready to spend a quiet night at home. The peace was sweet — while it lasted. Soon, my iPhone began flashing with notifications from a handful …
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All Facebook and The Next Web
Ohad Samet / TechCrunch:
Paypal Is About To Get A Bruising From Facebook And Square — Editor's note: Guest author Ohad Samet is an expert in managing fraud and other risks in payments systems. He is a cofounder of Signifyd, and years ago was a senior manager at PayPal and blogs at As Risky As It Gets and Tweets at @ohadsamet.
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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Daring Fireball
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Amir Michael / Facebook:
Inside the Open Compute Project Server
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Perspectives, ReadWriteWeb and The Register
Darren Murph / Engadget:
Israeli parody details the rise and fall of Apple's iBoy, humanity as a whole (video) — For those unaware, Eretz Nehederet is effectively the Israeli equivalent to The Onion, and on the 1st of April, they covered the hardest-hitting piece of Apple news to cross their news desk in quite some time.
Brian Heaton / Government Technology News:
Mayor-Elect Discusses Open Source 311 for Chicago — Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel intends to eventually open the city's 311 system to the public, he announced on Wednesday, April 6, during a tour of the Microsoft Chicago Technology Center. — In a statement on his blog …
Ross Dawson / Trends in the Living Networks:
SEC opens the gates to crowdfunding and a new structure of capitalism — This is significant. While talk doesn't necessarily lead to action, a significant shift in capitalism could be coming. — On Wednesday US SEC Chairman Mary Shapiro sent a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa, chair of the House Oversight Committee.
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VentureBeat and Wall Street Journal
Patrick Garratt / VG247:
Apple poaches top UK games PR from Nintendo, Activision — Apple is apparently making a serious play on the UK games PR space by hiring top men from both Nintendo and Activision. — MCV reckons Nintendo UK PR head Rob Saunders, who announced his departure after seven years earlier this week …
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MCV, MacNN, AppleInsider, TUAW, Neowin.net, Apple Bitch, Touch Arcade, MacRumors, GigaOM and iClarified
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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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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Dear Google: You Can't Threaten People Into Being Social
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TechCrunch, Daily Patricia, Conversation Agent, I4U News, Stowe Boyd and Geek.com
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Ad.ly Versus Facebook: Something Doesn't Add Up — Earlier this week we heard whispers that Facebook was clamping down on Ad.ly and Crowdrally — two services that let users post sponsored updates to their Facebook Pages. This is important, because the companies are monetizing Facebook Page feeds …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Facebook Gives Ad.ly's Celebrity Endorsement Business the Boot
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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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Examiner, Neowin.net, AfterDawn.com and Slashdot
