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Bobbie Johnson / GigaOM:Struggling Six Apart Begged for $2M Loan — When blogging pioneer Six Apart announced in September that it was being purchased by ad network VideoEgg and being folded into a new company, Say Media, the deal confirmed what many had been saying for some time: the once-hot startup had been left...
Nilay Patel / Engadget:Boxee Box review — It’s a little strange that the Boxee Box by D-Link feels like a late entrant in this year’s crowded smart TV market — the core Boxee software has been around forever, and the Box itself was announced way back in January at CES. But a platform switch...
Charlie Savage / New York Times:F.B.I. Seeks Wider Wiretap Law for Web — WASHINGTON — Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, traveled to Silicon Valley on Tuesday to meet with top executives of several technology firms about a proposal to make it easier to wiretap Internet users.
Caroline McCarthy / The Social:Bartz: Google is great, Facebook is competition — SAN FRANCISCO—The first word that comes to Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz’s mind when she hears the word “Facebook” is “competition,” she revealed onstage at the Web 2.0 Summit this afternoon when conference host John Battelle engaged her in a lightning round of...
George Deglin / Hacking Entrepreneurship:The risks of Facebook’s Instant Personalization program — In April, Facebook unveiled a new technology called Instant Personalization. Initially released to just Yelp, Pandora, and Docs.com, Instant Personalization has been widely misunderstood by the media and Facebook users alike.
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Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog:How to be successful on YouTube — I have always been a big fan of video as a communication tool and YouTube is an amazing platform if you use it right. —it’s human —it’s you, your voice, your gesture, your...
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:Ping Now Works With Your Actual iTunes Library. This Is A Thousand Times Better — It launched with much fanfare, but I don’t think it was unreasonable to call Ping a dud out of the gate. While pretty much everyone initially signed up to try it out, a few days later,...
Andrew Hough / Telegraph:Social Network writer backs Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg over ‘stolen ideas’ claims — Aaron Sorkin, the creative brains behind the new Facebook movie “The Social Network”, has offered his support to Mark Zuckerberg, after the tech boss was accused of stealing the idea for the social networking site.
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:Need Pre-Facebook Movie Drama? Go Read “Googled” This Week — With the Facebook movie’s debut a week away, how about something to keep you entertained while you wait? A book. About that other major internet drama story, Google. The book? “Googled, The End Of The World As We Know...