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Samuel W. Lessin / Facebook Blog:
Tell Your Story with Timeline — Since the beginning of Facebook, your profile has been the place where you tell your story. People use it to share everything from the small stuff, like their thoughts on an article, to the most important events of their lives, like the photos of their wedding or the birth of their child.
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Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch:
How To Enable Facebook Timeline Right This Second — This morning Facebook announced Timeline, a crazy (and kind of creepy) omnibus look at everything that has ever happened in your Facebook lifespan. It's like a story book of your life — or at least the online, documented parts.
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Bret Taylor / Facebook Developers:
f8: A New Class of Apps
f8: A New Class of Apps
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HP:
HP Names Meg Whitman President and Chief Executive Officer — Ray Lane appointed executive chairman; Léo Apotheker steps down as president, chief executive officer and director — HP today announced that its board of directors has appointed Meg Whitman as president and chief executive officer.
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Sean Hollister / This is my next:
Leo Apotheker's last memo to HP employees — Leo Apotheker may not be the CEO of Hewlett-Packard anymore — Meg Whitman took his place this morning — but the former chief executive didn't head out the door without sending one last memorandum to his employees.
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
It's Official: Meg Whitman Named HP CEO; Apotheker Out; Lane Is Exec Chairman
It's Official: Meg Whitman Named HP CEO; Apotheker Out; Lane Is Exec Chairman
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Matt Burns / TechCrunch:
In First Company-Wide Email, Meg Whitman Says HP Must Focus On Their Mission
In First Company-Wide Email, Meg Whitman Says HP Must Focus On Their Mission
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Michael J. de la Merced / DealBook:
In Whitman, H.P. Gains a Prolific Deal Maker
In Whitman, H.P. Gains a Prolific Deal Maker
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CNNMoney.com:
HP's ousted CEO will take home $25 million
HP's ousted CEO will take home $25 million
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Farhad Manjoo / Slate Magazine:
Facebook's terrible plan to get us to share everything we do on the Web. … Like This Story … - Would U.N. Recognition Allow Palestinians To Prosecute Israeli Officials? - Pan Am: Sumptuous Fluff About American Dominance- How R.E.M. Saved American Music- “Check Out My New Homestead!”
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Share Buttons? Ha. Facebook Just Schooled The Internet. Again. — After last year's f8 keynote, my initial thought was pretty straightforward: I Think Facebook Just Seized Control Of The Internet. Between the Like Button, the Open Graph, and the Open Graph API, I felt like we were shifting …
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Tom Anderson / Google+:
Why Facebook's New Vision is Good for Google+ — I sat back …
Why Facebook's New Vision is Good for Google+ — I sat back …
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Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Sorry Facebook, But That Stuff I Share on Your Site is Not the “Story of My Life”
Sorry Facebook, But That Stuff I Share on Your Site is Not the “Story of My Life”
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Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
What f8 Means for Advertisers: The Ability to Target Users Based on Media Consumption
Steven Levy / Epicenter:
Facebook Is Ready for Your New Closeup. Are You?
Facebook Is Ready for Your New Closeup. Are You?
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Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Microsoft clears up Linux confusion over Windows 8 Secure Boot feature — Microsoft chose to directly respond to confusion surrounding its Windows 8 Secure Boot feature on Thursday. — Microsoft's Windows chief, Steven Sinofsky, admitted there had been some comments recently that …
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Marco Arment / Marco.org:
A Business Insider retrospective — After reading Ryan McCarthy's post at Reuters about Business Insider, I wanted to run some numbers. — After all, they've linked to nearly every significant article I've written for the last few years, often automatically by scraping Techmeme.
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Ryan McCarthy / Felix Salmon:
Business Insider, over-aggregation, and the mad grab for traffic
Business Insider, over-aggregation, and the mad grab for traffic
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Spotify Will No Longer Be Invite Only In The US, And Users Get Their First Six Months Of Service Free — I'm sitting here at Facebook's F8 conference with Spotify CEO Daniel Ek and he's just told me that Spotify will no longer be invite-only in the US, and that the service will have no limitations …
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John Paul Titlow / ReadWriteWeb:
Deep Spotify Integration Brings Free Music to Facebook
Deep Spotify Integration Brings Free Music to Facebook
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Jana Winter / Fox News:
EXCLUSIVE: FBI Arrests Suspected LulzSec and Anonymous Hackers — DEVELOPING: The FBI arrested two alleged members of the hacking collectives LulzSec and Anonymous on Thursday morning in San Francisco and Phoenix, FoxNews.com has learned. — Search warrants were also being executed in New Jersey …
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Matt Rosoff / Business Insider:
How Big Was Arrington's Stake In TechCrunch When He Sold It To AOL? — About 85%. — That's according to super angel Ron Conway, who is tight with Mike Arrington. — He was giving advice to a bunch of entrepreneurs and developers at small companies at the Twilio Conference in San Francisco …
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Ashlee Vance / Business Week:
The Inscrutable Mad Men of Silicon Valley — Esoteric hardware companies try to dominate airport ad space — Donald Basile is the chief executive officer of Violin Memory, a startup in Silicon Valley that makes superfast data storage systems. You've probably never heard of the company …
DigiTimes:
Defect in Wintek-made touch panels may influence initial iPhone 5 shipments — A defect has presented in some iPhone 5 touch panels produced by Wintek which may affect the ability to meet initial shipment targets for the launch which is expected in October, according to iPhone supply chain makers.
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Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
US net neutrality rules finalized, in effect November 20 — Get ready, America—net neutrality finally comes to the Internet on November 20, 2011. — That's the plan, at least. The FCC has just filed its final “open Internet” rules (PDF) with the Federal Register, which will publish them tomorrow and make them official.
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Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
Google Overhauls Product Search, Plans To Close Boutiques.com — Google's new Product Search home page is very un-Googley. Dare I say that it actually looks ... stylish? — It's dominated by an oversized image area that changes through a series of five different products.
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