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Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:
Dear Google: You Can't Threaten People Into Being Social — There have been signs over the past few months that Google is feeling the pressure to step up its social efforts — the +1 features it announced a week ago being just one of them. But the clearest indication yet is a memo …
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Mike Elgan / Computerworld:
Larry Page's first blunder — The Google founder is now CEO, and already he's taken a wrong turn on social networking — Computerworld - Eric Schmidt is out at Google. Larry Page is in. I miss Eric already. — Page, who started as CEO on Monday, wasted no time changing the company's focus and direction.
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Scripting News, Search Engine Journal and broadstuff
Brian Caulfield / Forbes:
Apple: The Accidental Gaming Giant — The company's emergence as a huge factor in videogames was almost an accident. Now it's a couple of years away from overtaking the incumbents. — Oh, !#$%, Jason Citron thought last April, nearly spitting up his coffee.
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Patrick Garratt / VG247:
Apple poaches top UK games PR from Nintendo, Activision — Apple is apparently making a serious play on the UK games PR space by hiring top men from both Nintendo and Activision. — MCV reckons Nintendo UK PR head Rob Saunders, who announced his departure after seven years earlier this week …
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MacNN, MCV, AppleInsider, TUAW, Touch Arcade, MacRumors, Apple Bitch, GigaOM, iClarified and GoNintendo
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Facebook's Open Compute Project — Facebook just released Open Compute Project, their now-public datacenter and server design, optimized for situations in which hundreds or thousands of servers are needed such as the biggest websites and web-hosting companies.
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Amir Michael / Facebook:
Inside the Open Compute Project Server
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Perspectives, SAI and The Register
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Ad.ly Versus Facebook: Something Doesn't Add Up — Earlier this week we heard whispers that Facebook was clamping down on Ad.ly and Crowdrally — two services that let users post sponsored updates to their Facebook Pages. This is important, because the companies are monetizing Facebook Page feeds …
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Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Facebook Gives Ad.ly's Celebrity Endorsement Business the Boot — Ad.ly thinks there's big money to be made getting celebrities to sell stuff using social media platforms. But it says Facebook won't let it set up shop. — Ad.ly says that at Facebook's insistence, it has stopped selling …
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Sara Yin / PC Magazine:
‘Anonymous’ Plans Sony Boycott on April 16 — Say you're a hacker trying to cripple a major electronics company for suing its own users: how do you launch a cyberattack without harming the people you're trying to protect? — In the case of hactivist group ‘Anonymous,’ which has spent …
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Examiner, AfterDawn.com, Examiner and Slashdot
Ross Dawson / Trends in the Living Networks:
SEC opens the gates to crowdfunding and a new structure of capitalism — This is significant. While talk doesn't necessarily lead to action, a significant shift in capitalism could be coming. — On Wednesday US SEC Chairman Mary Shapiro sent a letter to Rep. Darrell Issa, chair of the House Oversight Committee.
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VentureBeat and Wall Street Journal
Stuart Dredge / Apps blog:
Google survey finds games trump all other uses for tablets — Research finds that 84% of tablet owners are playing games, versus 51% who are consuming music and videos — A survey of more than 1,400 tablet owners in the US by Google's AdMob subsidiary has found that gaming is the most popular use …
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Google Mobile Ads Blog, Examiner, The Huffington Post, MediaPost, Electronista, SocialTimes.com, PhoneArena, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, TUAW and Slashdot
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Parks Associates:
Parks Associates sees social gaming on track to become $5 billion industry by 2015 — Virtual goods and new advertising revenues to drive market growth — Parks Associates forecasts revenues in the social gaming market will increase by five times from 2010 to 2015, due in large part …
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Gamasutra, VentureBeat, Games.com The Blog …, techblog.dallasnews.com and Telecompetitor
Josh Constine / Inside Facebook:
Buddy Media Report on Facebook Page Posts: Shorter Is Better, but Avoid URL Shorteners — Page management company Buddy Media has released a study based on 200 of its clients illustrating best practices for Facebook Pages looking to increase their fan base's engagement — the volume of Likes and comments their posts receive.
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Mashable!, Buddy Media, Strategic Marketing, MediaPost, ClickZ, The Huffington Post and The Next Web
Henry Blodget / SAI:
THE SEARCH FOR THE “TWITTER MOLE”: All Eyes On John Doerr — Michael Arrington's report that Google has a “high-level mole” at Twitter has Silicon Valley buzzing. — Arrington said Google was tipped off in advance that Twitter was trying to poach a senior Google engineer and that Google had made a …
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