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Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
A To Do List For Google's New CEO Larry Page — Welcome back, Larry! When you were last CEO of Google in 2001, the company was a much loved scrappy underdog with a bright future. Ten years later, you're coming back to the helm. Things have changed. You're soon to be steering …
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San Francisco Chronicle, AOL News, Network World, MarketingVOX and NetworkEffect, Thanks:ideaversesg
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Quora:
What should Larry Page focus on now that he is CEO of Google? — 25 Answers — Robert Scoble — I would focus the company on a few key projects: 1. Make Android a real usability leader, not just a marketshare leader. I've been using Android a lot lately, and it simply isn't as nice as iPhone or, even, Windows Phone 7, in usability.
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broadstuff, Reuters and Bloomberg
Vivek Wadhwa / TechCrunch:
Why I Don't Buy the Quora Hype — Let me start with a disclaimer: I am not writing this in my capacity as a university professor or researcher; I don't claim to be an expert on social networking; and I will be happy to be proven wrong—I have no vested interest in the success or failure of Quora.
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Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life, mmoorejones, Mario Sundar, SAI, @jason, @briannorgard, @eghosao, @scobleizer and @johnniemanzari
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Zee / The Next Web:
Sean Parker: The Social Network is a complete work of fiction — Sean Parker and Paulo Coelho's two man panel at DLD raised a number of interesting points about the future of content but it was Coelho's question to Parker on his thoughts on the The Social Network, that grabbed everyone's attention.
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Mashable!, TechCrunch Europe and NBC Bay Area
Vlad Savov / Engadget:
Motorola Xoom launching February 17th at Best Buy (update: priced at $700) — When we stumbled upon an $800 price for the Motorola Xoom yesterday, our instinctive reaction was to leap forward to the next obvious question: when? Well, that call has now been answered by an internal Best Buy document that's …
Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Hacker Shows It Doesn't Take $8 Million to Clone Qwiki - Just 321 Lines of HTML Will do the Trick — Qwiki is an app that creates pretty slideshows based on Wikipedia entries. The service won the top award at the last Techcrunch Disrupt conference and just received $8 million in new funding …
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@carnage4life, Pulse2 and ABCNEWS
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Groklaw:
How Not to Get Snookered by Claims of “Proof” of Copyright Infringement — I guess you heard that Florian Mueller is at it again. He made strong claims of a smoking gun regarding alleged copyright infringement of Oracle files by Google. Well, in the cold light of day …
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Guardian, FOSS Patents, SlashGear and Android Community
Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:
Jason Calacanis Starts Promoting Mahalo 4.0 “Pivot” — Jason Calacanis is launching “Mahalo 4.0” on Tuesday, he just said on Quora, “our pivot from human-powered search to....... :-)”. — In other words, Mahalo, his startup, is shifting focus again. — To what? Good question.
R. Colin Johnson / EE Times:
‘Universal’ memory aims to replace flash/DRAM — ‘Universal’ memory aims to replace flash/DRAM — PORTLAND, Ore.—A single “universal” memory technology that combines the speed of DRAM with the non-volatility and density of flash memory was recently invented at North Carolina State University, according to researchers.
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Engadget, PhysOrg.com and Kotaku
Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Windows Phone 7 ‘jailbreakers’ working with Microsoft on homebrew support … Microsoft is currently working with a group of Windows Phone 7 jailbreakers to support homebrew applications after the first Windows Phone update. — Microsoft confirmed earlier this month that the company plans …
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ChevronWP7, GeekSmack, WMPoweruser.com, Redmond Pie and Phones Review
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
The Music Bay: Pirate Bay Crew Instill More Fear Into The Music Industry — For years The Pirate Bay has been a thorn in the side of the music industry, but things could be about to take a turn for the worse. Over the past days rumors of a new project titled “The Music Bay” have been circling …
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PC Magazine, THINQ.co.uk, The Next Web, Erictric and p2pnet
Paul McMahon / TokyoDev:
Facebook is Japan's LinkedIn — A couple of weeks back, an article Facebook Wins Relatively Few Friends in Japan made its rounds. As usual, Facebook is compared to the big three Japanese SNS: mixi, Gree, and Mobage-town. However, Gree and Mobage-town market themselves more as social gaming platforms …
