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Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook's Zuckerberg Says The Age of Privacy is Over — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told a live audience yesterday that if he were to create Facebook again today, user information would by default be public, not private as it was for years until the company changed dramatically in December.
Prince McLean / AppleInsider:
Google Nexus One vs Apple iPhone 3GS — Google has taken the fate of its Android smartphone platform into its own hands by promoting and directly marketing HTC's latest new Android phone under its own brand. How does the new “superphone” stack up to last summer's iPhone 3GS?
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Danny Sullivan / Daggle:
No, Your First Impression Isn't Wrong: Android ISN'T As Nice As The iPhone — Tried Android and feel it doesn't measure up to the iPhone? TechCrunch would have you think it's just because you didn't try it long enough. It's not the phone, you see. It's you. And that's bull.
Ki Mae Heussner / ABCNEWS:
High-Tech Sex? Porn Flirts With the Cutting Edge — Adult Entertainment Expo Kicks Off as Consumer Electronics Show Continues — The porn industry peddles a product as old as Adam and Eve, and it's always found the most cutting edge ways to do it. — It's no accident that each year …
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Brad Stone / New York Times:
The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s — My 2-year-old daughter surprised me recently with two words: “Daddy's book.” She was holding my Kindle electronic reader. — Here is a child only beginning to talk, revealing that the seeds of the next generation gap have already been planted.
Scott M. Fulton, III / BetaNews:
CES 2010: What did we learn this week? — Without a doubt, Android has emerged from CES 2010 as the software platform story of the year. In a strange way, the sudden surge of activity for the platform prior to CES, and even prior to Google's Nexus One announcement the day before CES …
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
This Will Be The Year Adobe's 2 Million Flash Developers Come To The iPhone — It's no secret that Apple doesn't like Flash. It won't allow Flash apps to run on the iPhone or iPod Touch despite all of Adobe's cajoling and pleading, and despite the fact that it's long been working in the labs.
Dave / Master of 500 Hats:
Startups & VCs: Learn How to Design, Market, & Eat Your Own Consumer Internet Dogfood — Haven't really gotten on a rant in awhile... guess i've been doing a lot of travel lately, but now that i'm back in California for awhile, there's something i've been meaning to bring up that bothers me.
CHINAdaily:
Google apologizes to Chinese writers — Google said its communication with Chinese authors was “not good enough” after it published sections of their work in its online library Google Books without their permission. — Chinese writers accused Google of copyright infringement last October …
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Mathew Ingram Joins GigaOM — There are some stories that write themselves. This is one of them. About four years ago, I traveled to Toronto to attend the inaugural mesh web conference. There I learned two things: Paul Kedrosky is as funny in person as he on his blog. And Mathew Ingram is one sharp cookie.
Alexia Tsotsis / All Shook Down:
Video: The Richter Scales Take on Crunchpad Debacle, Google Voice Gate, and Murdoch/Google Wars — In further proof that Techcrunch founder Mike Arrington has a sense of humor, we present The Richter Scales' “In the Valley” a ballad to the tune of “At the Copacabana” making light of the perpetual …
James Temple / San Francisco Chronicle:
Social science meets computer science at Yahoo — Shortly after Carol Bartz took over as chief executive of Yahoo Inc. early last year, she met with Prabhakar Raghavan for an overview of the Sunnyvale Web giant's research division. As the head of Yahoo Labs ran through the catalog …
