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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Megaupload Details Raise Significant Concerns About What DOJ Considers Evidence Of Criminal Behavior — Yesterday I wrote up a first reaction to the Megaupload case. Having spent some more time going through the indictment in much greater detail, I have some more thoughts and concerns.
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Pulse2, VentureBeat and GigaOM
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Austin Carr / Fast Company:
Inside Megaupload's Megamind: Kim Dotcom's Playboy Bunnies, Russian Nuclear Vessels, And Private War On Terror — In the Wild, Wild West-era of digital media, there is no cowboy quite like Kim Dotcom. Part Sean Parker, part Kevin Mitnick, with a whiff of Notorious B.I.G. …
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Reuters, Wall Street Journal and VentureBeat, Thanks:@jengapokers
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
Follow the traffic: What MegaUpload's downfall did to the web — MegaUpload, the file-sharing community, has had its physical offices raided by the FBI and its site shut down (although it may be back up) because the U.S. government says it has violated copyright.
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Broadband Traffic Management, USA Today, PC Magazine, Ars Technica, Techie Buzz, Better Broadband Blog and Reuters, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:@ryanlawler
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
Explainer: How can the US seize a “Hong Kong site” like Megaupload?
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Gawker, Technologizer, Hit & Run and Guardian
Ben Grubb / Sydney Morning Herald:
Love online: 100,000 Grindr users exposed in hack attack — The Grindr app, left, and founder Joel Simkhai's profile. — A popular “meat-market” smartphone app that spawned a sexual revolution in Australia's gay community has been compromised by a Sydney hacker, potentially exposing …
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Grindr Blog, Queerty, PC Magazine, SFist, New York Magazine, Gay Blog, Softpedia News, The Raw Story, Naked Security and Gawker
Rocky Agrawal / VentureBeat:
This post on Google+ statistics is a billion* times better than any other post — In Thursday's Google earnings call, CEO Larry Page told the world that the company's fledgling social network, Google+ has reached 90 million registered users. He went on to say that, “Over 60 percent …
Clay Shirky:
Pick up the pitchforks: David Pogue underestimates Hollywood — Writing in his blog on the New York Times yesterday, David Pogue, one of the Times' tech columnists, advises toning down the alarmist rhetoric over SOPA, suggesting that opponents of the bill (and its Senate cousin PIPA) should Put Down the Pitchforks.
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O'Reilly Radar, TPM Idea Lab, Mashable! and Slate, more at Mediagazer », Thanks:@digiphile
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Stephen Totilo / Kotaku:
ESA Drops SOPA Support, Video Game Lobby Laments Bill's ‘Unintended Consequences’
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Techdirt, Electronista, Neowin.net, Reuters, GamePolitics blogs, VG247, TPM Livewire, Washington Post and Guardian, more at Mediagazer »
Y Combinator:
RFS 9: Kill Hollywood — Hollywood appears to have peaked. If it were an ordinary industry (film cameras, say, or typewriters), it could look forward to a couple decades of peaceful decline. But this is not an ordinary industry. The people who run it are so mean and so politically connected …
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BJMendelson.com, Hacker News, @johnolilly, AudioSearch, TechCrunch, Daily Patricia, @lazerow, @hunterwalk, Social Markets, SplatF, Business Insider, Ben Parr's Entrepreneurial …, @timoreilly, PandoDaily, @jason, @dannysullivan and Slashdot, Thanks:@mattlynley
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Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:
Killing Hollywood Will Require Learning Hollywood's Game
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New York Times, more at Mediagazer »
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Investment Firm Y Combinator Goes on Offensive Against Hollywood
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VatorNews, VentureBeat and New York Times
Antoine Leblond / MSDN Blogs:
Designing the Windows Store user experience … When we set out to design the Windows Store, we had a number of design goals and principles that guided us to our final experience. The fundamental building block of our Store design was to ensure that people could easily discover and quickly acquire apps.
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Windows 8 Beta, Ars Technica, All about Microsoft Blog, WinBeta and Neowin.net
New York Times:
Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class — When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley's top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president. — But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own …
Audrey Watters / Hack Education:
Android App Inventor Open Sourced, Code Released — Last year, Google decided to shutter Google Labs, a place where a number of incredibly wonderful experimental projects lived. Among the projects that got the ax was one of my favorites: Google's Android App Inventor.
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ZDNet, Liliputing, Electronista and appinventoredu.mit.edu, Thanks:@audreywatters
Alistair Barr / Reuters:
Amazon setting up first “fulfillment center” in India — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is setting up its first “fulfillment center” in India as the world's largest Internet retailer tries to break into the world's second most-populous nation. — Fulfillment centers are giant warehouses …
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Google To Close Social Graph API, Not OpenSocial — A cool way of seeing how pages are interconnected socially is being shut down. Google says its Social Graph API is being retired. — Social Graph API Closes In April — The news came in a blog post today:
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The Official Google Blog, Softpedia News, memeburn and gHacks Technology News
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Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:
Google to Shut Down Picnik, Social Graph API and Urchin, Open-Sourcing Sky Map
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
On the Proprietary Nature of the iBooks Author File Format — Daniel Glazman, co-chairman of the W3C CSS Working Group, has a detailed technical analysis of the iBooks Author file format: … He thinks these nonstandard extensions are a strategic mistake on Apple's part:
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@chpwn, <Glazblog/>, Baldur Bjarnason and Bits
