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SocialFlow Company Blog:
Breaking Bin Laden: visualizing the power of a single tweet — A full hour before the formal announcement of Bin-Laden's death, Keith Urbahn posted his speculation on the emergency presidential address. Little did he know that this Tweet would trigger an avalanche of reactions …
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techPresident, The Wire, Paul Kedrosky's …, MediaShift, Betabeat, Joho the Blog, Laughing Squid and BetaNews, more at Mediagazer »
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Krishna Bharat / Google News Blog:
Google News and the Coverage of Bin Laden
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Search Engine Land, WebProNews, Nieman Journalism Lab, Danger Room and The Lede, more at Mediagazer »
Joe Hewitt:
Creative Tools — Today was my last day at Facebook. Normally when I leave a job I go out cursing the management and wishing I had left much sooner. In the case of Facebook, I sent heartfelt emails to all of my managers thanking them for the privilege of letting me work there, and I genuinely meant it.
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GigaOM, FunctionSource Posts, @om, @martinbowling, @parand and @joehewitt
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Mobile Developer Joe Hewitt Leaves Facebook — Notable mobile developer Joe Hewitt has left Facebook to pursue independent projects related to HTML 5 development. — From his blog: … We had heard that he was working on deeply integrating Facebook into Android after he quit the iPhone team over disagreement with Apple's policies.
Adrian Asher / Skype Security:
Security Vulnerability in Mac Client Has Been Addressed — Last month, we were contacted by Pure Hacking, a group of ethical hackers in Australia, who reported what they believed to be a zero-day vulnerability in Skype for Mac 5.x. This vulnerability, which they blogged about earlier today …
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Computerworld, MacStories, Disruptive Telephony and The Next Web
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David Meyer / ZDNet:
Researcher: Skype for Mac has ‘dangerous’ vulnerability
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purehacking.com, PC Magazine, CNET News, MacNN, Mashable!, Disruptive Telephony, Voice on the Web and The Register
Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Windows Phone 7 starting to reverse Microsoft's mobile slide? — Microsoft's share of the U.S. smart-phone market is still in decline, but the rate at which it is happening may be slowing, according to a new report from comScore. — In the first three months of 2011 …
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Internet2Go, TechFlash, All about Microsoft Blog, WinRumors, DroidMatters.com, WMPoweruser.com and @mrinaldesai
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Chris Nerney / ITworld.com:
Android emerges as clear leader in U.S. smartphone platform market
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asymco, BGR, comScore, Inc. and Wall Street Journal
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
No, Apple won't be dumping Intel chips for ARM, you crazies — Here's your latest crazy Apple rumor: Sources say that Apple is looking to move towards ARM processors in its laptops, which will replace the Intel chips its been relying on for the past few years, SemiAccurate reports.
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Arn / MacRumors:
Apple to Move from Intel to ARM Processors in Future Laptops?
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Fast Company, The Next Web, SAI, ARMdevices.net, AppleInsider, The Tech Report, Electronista, CNET News, Computerworld, thinq_, GottaBeMobile, LAPTOP Magazine, ExtremeTech, Digital Trends, The Apple Core Blog, OS X Daily, O'Grady's PowerPage, TG Daily, Neowin.net, Geek.com, Techland, PalmAddicts, PC World, The Register, BGR, SlashGear, MacStories, 9 to 5 Mac, T3.com News, iClarified, Pocket-lint, Apple Bitch, bit-tech.net, SemiAccurate, Cult of Mac and eHomeUpgrade
Ina Fried / Mobilized:
AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Apple and Google all Scheduled to Appear Before Congress Next Week — There will be no shortage of tech companies speaking in Washington next week, as separate Senate subcommittees hold hearings on two major issues in the tech industry.
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PC Magazine, CNET News, MacRumors, The Next Web, iPodNN, GigaOM, CNET News, I4U News and Electronista
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Jim Dalrymple / The Loop:
Apple's Bud Tribble to testify before Judiciary Subcommittee on Mobile Privacy
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TUAW, 9 to 5 Mac, Pulse2 and digiday:DAILY, Thanks:jdalrymple
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Quietly Fixes its Original Privacy Problem, 5 Years Later — Facebook has quietly enabled a new privacy feature that allows users to hide certain types of updates from their walls and from the newsfeeds of friends. Make a new friend? Planning on going to an event?
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@marshallk, @joshconstine and All Facebook
Greg Linden / Geeking with Greg:
The value of Google Maps directions logs — Ooo, this one is important. A clever and very fun paper, “Hyper-Local, Direction-Based Ranking of Places” (PDF), will be presented at VLDB 2011 later this year by a few Googlers. — The core idea is that, when people ask for directions from A to B …
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
56% of Americans have Internet data caps; FCC asked to investigate — Two prominent Washington DC tech policy groups have asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate Internet data caps in the US—with a special focus on AT&T. — New America Foundation and Public Knowledge say in a letter …
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PC World, DSLreports, Hillicon Valley, Epicenter and Electronista
Andy Greenberg / The Firewall:
Researchers Say WSJ's WikiLeaks Copycat Is Full Of Holes — The Wall Street Journal wants a WikiLeaks of its own: a conduit for sources to securely submit large caches of data to the site's reporters. But some security researchers say the Journal has yet to learn a basic rule of digital whistleblowing …
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MediaFile, @diveintomark, Mediactive, Fast Company, Pulse2, The Blog Herald, Techdirt, Softpedia News, Digital Trends, Mixed Media, Poynter and Boing Boing, more at Mediagazer »
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Ujala Sehgal / FishbowlNY:
Wall Street Journal Issues Statement on its WikiLeaks Clone SafeHouse's Lack of Safety
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Dow Jones, Bits and Gawker, more at Mediagazer »
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Impacted By Google's Panda Update? Google Asks You To Consider This... Amit Singhal, Google's head of search, published a blog post on the Google Webmaster Central blog named More guidance on building high-quality sites. — Amit's goal with this post is to have those webmasters impacted …
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TechEye, Google Webmaster Central Blog, Search Engine Watch and WebProNews, more at Mediagazer »
Patrick Seybold / PlayStation Blog:
A Letter from Howard Stringer — Please see below for a letter from Howard Stringer:
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PlayStation.Blog.Europe, Neowin.net, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Guardian, This is my next, Digital Trends, Geek.com, PC World, Mashable!, I4U News, Ubergizmo, GameLife, BetaNews, Gadgetell, TechSpot, PR Newswire, ForeverGeek, PC Magazine, Network World, Electronista, DailyTech, Internet Evolution, Between the Lines Blog, Bloomberg, Massively, Edge Online, Tech Trader Daily, Techland, thinq_, SlashGear, Associated Press, Hardware 2.0 Blog, Digits, GMSV, IndustryGamers, Wall Street Journal, Sony Insider, Crave, WebProNews, NewEnterprise, Pocket-lint, VentureBeat, VG247, gameinformer.com, Inquirer, Joystiq, Kotaku, Electricpig.co.uk, The Consumerist, CNET News, The Next Web, Destructoid, Bits, USA Today, GamePolitics News, Gamasutra, Slashdot, SC Magazine, Engadget and VentureBeat
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Matt Zimmerman / Canonical Blog:
Matt Zimmerman leaving Canonical — I joined Canonical in June of 2004 as a member of the founding team, before we even had a name for the company. In June 2011, after just over seven years as Ubuntu CTO, I will be leaving Canonical in search of new challenges.
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The Register, internetnews.com and Open Source Blog
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Bin Laden's computers will test U.S. forensics — For the U.S. government, the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan represents a unique opportunity to test advanced computer forensics techniques called “media exploitation” that it's developed over the last few years.
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The Register and InformationWeek
Eric Eldon / Inside Social Games:
Recent Zynga Filing Shows $490 Million in Funding — Following reports in February that Zynga was raising a new round of funding of up to $500 million at a $10 billion valuation, a new filing has emerged showing what appears to be a sale of $490 million in Series C Preferred shares, that had been slated to take place in early March.
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VentureBeat and eMoney
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple's iPad 2 launch in China draws crowds, scalpers — Apple's launch of the Wi-Fi iPad 2 in China on Friday drew customers and scalpers alike, with anecdotal evidence suggesting that the white model is significantly more popular. — The iPad 2 went on sale at Apple Stores in China at 8 a.m. Friday.
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Xinhua News Agency, MacRumors, M.I.C. Gadget, PC World, Agence France Presse, SAI, TUAW, PC Magazine, iLounge, BGR, MobileBurn.com, everythingiCafe, MacNN, Reuters, 9 to 5 Mac and Phones Review
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Flipboard Triples Daily Usage in Two Months After Speed Improvements — Flipboard, the leading social news app for iPad, has tripled daily usage in the last two months, CEO Mike McCue said in a chat on Thursday. The app now sees eight to nine million daily “flips.”
Nicole Scott / netbooknews.com:
ASUS HQ Makes Official Statement on Transformer Tablet Shortagea — Living in Taipei we've often noticed that marketing people overseas don't really know what's going on with their products, not like the head quarters does anyways. There have been a lot of rumors floating around …
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Why malware for Macs is on its way — Oh, the rationalizations people come up with to explain away what they don't want to hear. — Last week, when I wrote Coming soon to a Mac near you: serious malware, I expected to get an earful from Mac partisans telling me how wrong I was. They didn't disappoint.
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Pulse2, Neowin.net and blog.chron.com
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
T-Mobile loses 471,000 contract customers, cites ‘competitive pressures’ — T-Mobile USA saw a spike in contract customer losses as it struggles to compete with other carriers. — The company said Friday that it lost 471,000 net contract customers in the first quarter compared to 318,000 in the fourth quarter and 77,000 a year ago.
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CNET News, GigaOM, MobileCrunch, Mobilized, IntoMobile, VentureBeat, GottaBeMobile, BGR, Electronista, TmoNews, TechEye and Pulse2
