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5:20 AM ET, May 7, 2011

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Joe Hewitt:
Creative Tools  —  Today was my last day at Facebook.  Normally when I leave a job I go out cursing the management and wishing I had left much sooner.  In the case of Facebook, I sent heartfelt emails to all of my managers thanking them for the privilege of letting me work there, and I genuinely meant it.
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Joe Hewitt, Mobile Guru Leaves Facebook  —  On paper, he was just another developer at Facebook.  In reality, his influence on Facebook and its future is much larger.  Joe Hewitt, who built the initial version of Facebook for the iPhone, left the Palo Alto, Calif.-based social networking company Friday.
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:   Esteemed Mobile Developer Joe Hewitt Leaves Facebook
SocialFlow Company Blog:
Breaking Bin Laden: visualizing the power of a single tweet  —  A full hour before the formal announcement of Bin-Laden's death, Keith Urbahn posted his speculation on the emergency presidential address.  Little did he know that this Tweet would trigger an avalanche of reactions …
Nick Eaton / The Microsoft Blog:
Windows Phone 7 starting to reverse Microsoft's mobile slide?  —  Microsoft's share of the U.S. smart-phone market is still in decline, but the rate at which it is happening may be slowing, according to a new report from comScore.  —  In the first three months of 2011 …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Apple May Not Have Bought Nuance But...  This past November, the blogosphere was briefly set on fire when a comment Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak made in passing stated that Apple had acquired the voice recognition company Nuance.  Wozniak quickly came out and corrected that comment …
Adrian Asher / Skype Security:
Security Vulnerability in Mac Client Has Been Addressed  —  Last month, we were contacted by Pure Hacking, a group of ethical hackers in Australia, who reported what they believed to be a zero-day vulnerability in Skype for Mac 5.x.  This vulnerability, which they blogged about earlier today …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Google Appears To Be Testing A Sparse, Ugly New Results Page  —  Whoa there tipsters, slow down.  We've just been bombarded with tips coming our way that Google has rolled out a new-look search results page.  Scanning Twitter, it looks like there are in fact a lot of people seeing this.
Discussion: NewsGrange and Mashable!
Greg Linden / Geeking with Greg:
The value of Google Maps directions logs  —  Ooo, this one is important.  A clever and very fun paper, “Hyper-Local, Direction-Based Ranking of Places” (PDF), will be presented at VLDB 2011 later this year by a few Googlers.  —  The core idea is that, when people ask for directions from A to B …
Matthew Lasar / Ars Technica:
Google, Facebook: “do not track” bill a threat to California economy  —  Google and Facebook are warning legislators of dire consequences if California passes a “do not track” bill.  The proposed law would require companies doing online business in the Golden State to offer an “opt-out” privacy mechanism for consumers.
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JC Fletcher / Joystiq:
PSN reactivation delayed for ‘further testing,’ likely not coming back this week  —  On Sunday, Sony announced that “some” PSN services, including online play, would come back this week.  With very little of this week remaining, you might be wondering if it's still going to happen.  Well, it isn't.
Eric Eldon / Inside Social Games:
Recent Zynga Filing Shows $490 Million in Funding  —  Following reports in February that Zynga was raising a new round of funding of up to $500 million at a $10 billion valuation, a new filing has emerged showing what appears to be a sale of $490 million in Series C Preferred shares, that had been slated to take place in early March.
Discussion: eMoney and VentureBeat
Nate Anderson / Ars Technica:
56% of Americans have Internet data caps; FCC asked to investigate  —  Two prominent Washington DC tech policy groups have asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate Internet data caps in the US—with a special focus on AT&T.  —  New America Foundation and Public Knowledge say in a letter …
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Impacted By Google's Panda Update?  Google Asks You To Consider This...  Amit Singhal, Google's head of search, published a blog post on the Google Webmaster Central blog named More guidance on building high-quality sites.  —  Amit's goal with this post is to have those webmasters impacted …
Sam Gustin / Epicenter:
Report: Condé Nast Springs Ahead of Hearst With iPad Subscription Pact  —  Welcome to the future — it only costs $19.99.  —  Condé Nast, the publisher of Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, GQ and Wired, is on the verge of announcing a pact with Apple to begin selling digital subscriptions …
Matt Zimmerman / Canonical Blog:
Matt Zimmerman leaving Canonical  —  I joined Canonical in June of 2004 as a member of the founding team, before we even had a name for the company.  In June 2011, after just over seven years as Ubuntu CTO, I will be leaving Canonical in search of new challenges.
Declan McCullagh / CNET News:
Bin Laden's computers will test U.S. forensics  —  For the U.S. government, the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound in Pakistan represents a unique opportunity to test advanced computer forensics techniques called “media exploitation” that it's developed over the last few years.
Discussion: The Register
Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:
No, Apple won't be dumping Intel chips for ARM, you crazies  —  Here's your latest crazy Apple rumor: Sources say that Apple is looking to move towards ARM processors in its laptops, which will replace the Intel chips its been relying on for the past few years, SemiAccurate reports.
Krishna Bharat / Google News Blog:
Google News and the Coverage of Bin Laden  —  Google News was born in the aftermath of the tragic events of September 11, 2001.  An unprecedented act of terrorism on U.S. soil, by a foreign militant group led by Osama Bin Laden, changed the course of history.
Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Swears He's Not Going to Kill HBO: “We Compete Like Football and Baseball”  —  So we've heard what Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes thinks about Netflix.  What does Reed Hastings think about Time Warner?  —  He's full of good will, too!
Liz Gannes / NetworkEffect:
Flipboard Triples Daily Usage in Two Months After Speed Improvements  —  Flipboard, the leading social news app for iPad, has tripled daily usage in the last two months, CEO Mike McCue said in a chat on Thursday.  The app now sees eight to nine million daily “flips.”
Zach Honig / Engadget:
Google and Sprint respond to Google Voice integration issues  —  You may recall from yesterday that early adopters were having a variety of issues after activating (or attempting to activate) Sprint's new Google Voice integration feature.  Well, a full day has passed, and we've had several calls …
Discussion: VentureBeat and Neowin.net
 
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Dan Sabbagh / paidContent:
UK Journalists' Tweets To Be Regulated
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Disqus Brings @Mentions To Comment Threads
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Tom Espiner / ZDNet:
W3C to develop peer-to-peer browser standards
Sara Forden / Bloomberg:
Google Seeks Antitrust Lawyer as It Faces Regulatory Scrutiny
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Amazon.com is threatening to pull out of Tennessee over sales tax issues
 Earlier Items: 
Matt McLernon / YouTube Blog:
You old romantics you...72 million live streams in 188 countries for the Royal Wedding on YouTube
Discussion: PC Magazine, TechCrunch and paidContent
Josh Ong / AppleInsider:
Apple's iPad 2 launch in China draws crowds, scalpers
Nicole Scott / netbooknews.com:
ASUS HQ Makes Official Statement on Transformer Tablet Shortages
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
Why malware for Macs is on its way  —  Oh, the rationalizations …
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