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Jennifer Preston / New York Times:
Outrage and a Facebook Page That Gave It a Voice — If there is a face to the revolt that has sprouted in Egypt, it may be the face of Khaled Said. — That 28-year-old Egyptian businessman was pulled from an Internet cafe in Alexandria last June by two plainclothes police officers who beat …
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Wall Street Journal and @loic
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Adrian Chen / Gawker:
Why Facebook Should Do More to Help Egypt's Protesters — An image making the rounds features an Egyptian protesters carrying a sign that reads “Thank you Facebook” in Arabic. Thank Facebook for what? Facebook has done as little as possible to help Egypt's protesters. It should do more.
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Global Voices in English and @adrianchen
Mark Joyella / Mediaite:
Picture Of The Day: Cairo Protester Holds Sign That Says “Thank You Facebook”
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TechCrunch
Sara Inés Calderón / Inside Facebook:
Facebook Will Allow Users to Watch and Vote on Super Bowl Commercials — Facebook will allow users to watch and vote on the commercials from this year's Super Bowl as soon as they air. The commercials will appear on the Facebook Replay tab of the Sports on Facebook Page …
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AdAge, GigaOM and WebProNews, more at Mediagazer »
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Claire Cain Miller / Bits:
Super Bowl Ads Live On at YouTube and Facebook — Do you remember which team won the Super Bowl last year? Do you remember which was your favorite ad? — For many viewers, the second question is easier to answer. So once again, YouTube and Facebook are taking advantage of that by extending …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Groupon's “Rejected” Super Bowl Ad Is A (Subtle) Jab At LivingSocial — The battle of the social media Super Bowl ads continues, with daily deals Groupon just posting on its own blog about how it rejected an ad concept where someone goes through a Groupon addiction, an idea conspicuously similar …
Judson Berger / Fox News:
U.S. Government Slips Through China Internet Censors With New Technology — The U.S. government has figured out how to bust through Internet censorship filters in order to deliver news and other vital information via e-mail to people in countries like China, according to a recent report.
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Neowin.net, Techie Buzz and Slashdot
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Vanessa Fox / Search Engine Land:
What Time Does the 2011 Super Bowl Start? A (Continuing) Lesson in Search Visibility — Before the Super Bowl in both 2009 and 2010, I checked out the search engine results for the Super Bowl start time. In 2009, the results were abysmal. No one was taking advantage of the clear searcher interest.
Patrick Kingsley / Guardian:
Inside the anti-kettling HQ — A group of young computer geeks is wielding a new weapon in the fight against controversial police tactics at demonstrations — Cairo, it wasn't. But at about a quarter to four last Saturday afternoon, on a crowded backstreet in central London …
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Toronto Star, Boing Boing and Babbage
MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Readability Just Became Instapaper's Publisher Payment Layer — Personally, I think the concept behind Readability is pretty awesome. It gives you a way to read all your favorite articles on the web without all of the clutter of the web — meaning, mainly, ads.
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Instapaper Blog and Sample the Web, more at Mediagazer »
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Turning The Tables On The Google Toolbar & Disclosure Claims — Part of this week's debate over whether Microsoft's Bing search engine is learning from Google involves data that Bing gathers through Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Google has suggested Microsoft isn't giving fair disclosure.
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The Noisy Channel, @carnage4life and eWeek
Julie Bosman / New York Times:
E-Readers Catch Younger Eyes, and Find Room in the Backpack — Something extraordinary happened after Eliana Litos received an e-reader for a Hanukkah gift in December. — “Some weeks I completely forgot about TV,” said Eliana, 11. “I went two weeks with only watching one show, or no shows at all.
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TeleRead, Kindle Review, Pulse2 and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Frederic Lardinois / NewsGrange:
Why You Shouldn't Trust the uSamp Verizon iPhone Survey — Saturday's are usually slow days in the tech news world, but thanks to a new survey (PDF) from online research firm uSamp that argues that 44% of Verizon Android users and 26% of AT&T iPhone users will wait in line to get a Verizon iPhone …
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@jasonkincaid and @randyholloway, Thanks:fredericl
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:
Survey: 44% of Verizon Android users likely to switch to iPhone on Day One
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Electronista, PC Magazine, Screenwerk, Pulse2, JoelHousman.com, 9 to 5 Mac, App Advice and Android Phone Fans
Debian:
Debian 6.0 Squeeze released — After 24 months of constant development, the Debian Project is proud to present its new stable version 6.0 (code name Squeeze). Debian 6.0 is a free operating system, coming for the first time in two flavours. Alongside Debian GNU/Linux …
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Softpedia News and OStatic blogs
