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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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ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, Digital Trends, NetworkEffect, FunctionSource Posts, Electronista, @martinbowling, @parand, @joehewitt and @om
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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Esteemed 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 …
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 »
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, WinRumors, WMPoweruser.com, @mrinaldesai, All about Microsoft Blog and TechFlash
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Chris Nerney / ITworld.com:
Android emerges as clear leader in U.S. smartphone platform market — Google's mobile OS surges past RIM's BlackBerry, comScore reports — More than one-third of U.S. smartphone subscribers now own devices powered by Google's Android mobile operating system.
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BGR, comScore, Inc., asymco, DroidMatters.com and Wall Street Journal
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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MacRumors, PR Newswire, Thoughts from the Sidelines, Disruptive Telephony, MacStories and The Next Web
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David Meyer / ZDNet:
Researcher: Skype for Mac has ‘dangerous’ vulnerability
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purehacking.com, The Register, Disruptive Telephony, PC Magazine, MacNN, CNET News, Mashable! and Voice on the Web
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 …
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Appears To Be Testing A Sparse, Ugly New Results Page — Whoa there tipsters, slow down. We've just been bombarded with tips coming our way that Google has rolled out a new-look search results page. Scanning Twitter, it looks like there are in fact a lot of people seeing this.
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NewsGrange and Mashable!
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
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, Hillicon Valley, DSLreports, Epicenter and Electronista
Sam Gustin / Epicenter:
Report: Condé Nast Springs Ahead of Hearst With iPad Subscription Pact — Welcome to the future — it only costs $19.99. — Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ and Wired, is on the verge of announcing a pact with Apple to begin selling digital subscriptions …
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MacRumors, New York Post, FT Tech Hub, Gizmodo, CrunchGear and Gizmodo Australia, more at Mediagazer »
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.
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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CNET News, PC Magazine, I4U News, GigaOM, CNET News, MacRumors, iPodNN, The Next Web 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, Pulse2, 9 to 5 Mac and digiday:DAILY, Thanks:jdalrymple
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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Google Webmaster Central Blog, TechEye, WebProNews and Search Engine Watch, more at Mediagazer »
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
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
Ujala Sehgal / FishbowlNY:
Wall Street Journal Issues Statement on its WikiLeaks Clone SafeHouse's Lack of Safety — FishbowlNY wrote earlier about SafeHouse, the Wall Street Journal's WikiLeaks clone, that has been getting some flak for not actually being like WikiLeaks at all with regard to its most important feature: anonymity.
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Swears He's Not Going to Kill HBO: “We Compete Like Football and Baseball” — So we've heard what Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes thinks about Netflix. What does Reed Hastings think about Time Warner? — He's full of good will, too!
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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.”
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, Agence France Presse, PC World, BGR, TUAW, SAI, MobileBurn.com, everythingiCafe, PC Magazine, iLounge, Reuters, 9 to 5 Mac, MacNN and Phones Review
Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:
Sen. Rockefeller to introduce ‘Do Not Track’ bill — By Cecilia Kang Sen. John Rockefeller (D-W.Va) on Friday said he will introduce a “do not track” bill that would allow consumers to block Web sites and marketers from tracking their activity on the Internet.
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Ars Technica, Epicenter, The Register, DSLreports, The Precursor Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Bloomberg, Hillicon Valley and Softpedia News
Nicole Scott / netbooknews.com:
ASUS HQ Makes Official Statement on Transformer Tablet Shortages — 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 …
