Techmeme: Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 (Werner Vogels/All Things Distributed)

9:15 AM ET, December 6, 2010

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Josh Wiseman / Facebook Blog:

Introducing the New Profile — Today I'm excited to introduce you to some improvements we've made to the Facebook profile, so now it's even easier for you to tell your story and learn about your friends. — A New Introduction — The profile begins with a quick overview of basic information …

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Full Details On Facebook's Overhauled Profile Pages — Later tonight, 60 Minutes will be broadcasting an interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and VP Product Chris Cox, where they'll debut a new Profile Page in front of millions of viewers. It's a big deal given how core profiles …

Discussion: Mashable!, Softpedia News, ResourceShelf, Runnin' Scared, Examiner, Gawker and The Next Web

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:

Facebook launches new profiles: Possible threat to LinkedIn? — Facebook on Sunday announced a new profile page that allows you to highlight friends, show off photos better and list more details about yourself, including work projects. — Whenever Facebook tweaks a profile page, there's a fair bit of hubbub.

Discussion: SelectStart

Jesse Stay / Stay N' Alive:
With New Profile Design, Facebook Launches List Sharing (Like Twitter's, but Better)

Discussion: BoomTown, The Next Web and SelectStart, Thanks:jesse

Matt Brian / The Next Web:
How to get the new Facebook profile NOW — UPDATE: Watch Mark …

Discussion: LiewCF.com

Nadia Damouni / Reuters:

AOL plots breakup, then merger with Yahoo: sources — (Reuters) - AOL Inc, undergoing a radical transformation into the king of content on the Internet, is actively exploring a breakup of the company involving a complicated series of transactions that may lead to a merger with Yahoo Inc, sources close to the plans said.

Discussion: Search Engine Land, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Techland, The Next Web and SAI, more at Mediagazer »

Jay Yarow / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

Mark Zuckerberg Rocked On 60 Minutes (And The Winklevosses Looked, Well, Pathetic) — Mark Zuckerberg just appeared on 60 Minutes. He talks about Facebook's redesign, watching himself in the Social Network, and the Winklevoss twins. We've embedded the video below.

Discussion: Guardian, paidContent, Black Web 2.0, mediabistro.com, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, BoomTown, PE Hub Blog, Mashable!, VentureBeat, The Next Web, The Social and techeblog.com, more at Mediagazer »

Mike Isaac / Social Medium:

Mark Zuckerberg's 60 Minutes Interview: Best Piece of Facebook PR Yet — Since David Fincher's The Social Network was released, odds are that the general public's view of Mark Zuckerberg hasn't strayed very far from actor Jesse Eisenberg's portrayal of the young entrepreneur - cold, calculating, a walking superiority complex.

Discussion: SelectStart, Thanks:mj_isaac

Ari Levy / Bloomberg:

Groupon Aims to Emulate Facebook, Not Yahoo, After Walking Away From Deal — Groupon Inc., which rejected a Google Inc. takeover last week, is betting it can keep increasing its valuation after walking away from a deep-pocketed suitor, something Facebook Inc. pulled off and Yahoo! Inc. failed to do.

Discussion: The Register, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, TechCrunch, Sydney Morning Herald, The Next Web and TechEye, Thanks:chadcat

Micah Baldwin / Learn to Duck:
It All Changes When the Founder Drives a Porsche

Discussion: Rand's Blog

Paul Smalera / Fortune:
Google's Groupon groping reveals the shifting power in the web world

Discussion: Bloomberg

Kirk Hiner / Appletell:

Appletell exclusive: Mac App Store to open December 13th? — An inside source has just told us that Apple is targeting a Monday, December 13th launch of the Mac App Store. The company apparently told developers to have their software prepared for a launch as early as Monday the 6th of this month …

Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Forbes, Engadget, Erictric, MacStories, AppleBitch, O'Grady's PowerPage, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Softpedia News, Phones Review, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo and PalmAddicts, Thanks:aczafra

Werner Vogels / All Things Distributed:

Expanding the Cloud with DNS - Introducing Amazon Route 53 — I am very excited that today we have launched Amazon Route 53, a high-performance and highly-available Domain Name System (DNS) service. DNS is one of the fundamental building blocks of internet applications and was high …

Discussion: Between the Lines Blog, Inquirer, Amazon Web Services Blog, CNET News, Softpedia News, InfoQ and CloudAve

Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac:

Norman Foster to design Apple's new campus called ‘Apple City’ — El Economicnista reports (English)that renowned British architect Norman Foster is hard at work designing Apple's new campus in Cupertino. The 100 acre campus was picked up from HP last month for a measly $300M.

Discussion: Fast Company, Fortune, SlashGear, Softpedia News, Electronista and MacStories

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

Google, Bing & Searching For The New Wikileaks Website — Looking for the Wikileaks website? Having lost one domain, and having its second site going down temporarily, it's a challenge, even for the search engines. — Where's Wikileaks? — Yesterday, I wrote about how Google …

Discussion: The Next Web, ResourceShelf, TNL.net and Guardian

Brad McCarty / The Next Web:
Wikileaks Now Running on Over 300 Domains

Discussion: Network World, THINQ.co.uk, Examiner and CNN

Brooke Crothers / CNET News:

U.S. chip manufacturing in the age of the iPad — Behind the fly-off-the-shelf popularity of products like Apple's iPad and iPhone are hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs—mostly overseas. Is it possible to create more of those jobs here in the U.S. to combat chronically high levels of unemployment?

Fred / A VC:

Where Should Mobile Developers Focus? — I sent out this tweet yesterday: — I got a bunch of replies suggesting that Apple will remain the market share leader when measured in dollars and I really wasn't focused on that. I don't own Apple stock or Google stock.

Discussion: Appolicious Advisor, Phones Review and PhoneArena

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