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March 11, 2012, 5:15 PM

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Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:
Review: iPhoto for iOS out-does Adobe for mobile image editing  —  Apple released the final piece of its iLife suite for iOS on March 7, delivering a universal version of iPhoto for iPad and iPhone (sorry, iPod touch users).  We spent some quality time with the app using an iPad 2 and iPhone 4 …
Mike Shields / Adweek:
Gawker Founder Nick Denton Plans To Revamp Site's Comment Strategy  —  Once upon a time, in the early days of blogging, Gawker founder Nick Denton said, publishers hoped that the Web would help them “capture the intelligence of the readership.”  —  But now?  “That's a joke,” he said.
Farhad Manjoo / PandoDaily:
Amazon's brilliant plan to pay you crazy money for your iPad 2  —  It's been three days since Tim Cook unveiled the new iPad, but you're still stuck with your trusty old iPad 2.  You're keen to get rid of it so you can buy the new one, but you forgot to log in to one of those buy-back sites before Wednesday's launch.
More: CNET
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Instagram reaches 27 million registered users, shows off upcoming Android app  —  Instagram, the photo-sharing app that has taken a definitive lead on iOS, said it has surpassed 27 million registered users.  —  Co-founder Kevin Systrom didn't disclose daily active users.
Tweets: @erickschonfeld
Alexis Madrigal / The Atlantic Online:
How Frictionless Sharing Could Undermine Your Legal Right to Privacy  —  You might not think about the Fourth Amendment while you're using Facebook and other online tools, but you probably should.  —  You are no doubt familiar, now, with Facebook's concept of “frictionless sharing.”
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Walmart Buys Facebook's Birthday And Holiday Reminder App Social Calendar  —  It looks like retail giant Walmart has made another acquisition.  The e-commerce giant has bought Social Calendar, an app on Facebook that allows you to get birthday and holiday reminders by email and SMS …
More: Technorati
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
Eric Chu Steps Away From Overseeing Android's App Store, Jamie Rosenberg Expands Role  —  There was more than meets the eye with this week's rebranding of Android Market as Google Play.  —  Accompanying the new name and look is a shift in how the store is being managed.
Michael Kan / PC World:
China Will Not Issue 4G Licenses for Another 2 to 3 Years, Says Official  —  China will likely wait another two or three years to issue 4G licenses for LTE TDD networks, a top government official said, citing the need to build more 4G base stations, and to allow vendors time to develop handsets …
More: Engadget and MacNN
Paul Graham:
Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas  —  One of the more surprising things I've noticed while working on Y Combinator is how frightening the most ambitious startup ideas are.  In this essay I'm going to demonstrate this phenomenon by describing some.  Any one of them could make you a billionaire.
Stephanie Strom / New York Times:
YouTube Finds a Way Off Schools' Banned List  —  Educators are giving YouTube — long dismissed as a storehouse of whimsical, time-wasting and occasionally distasteful videos — another look.  As Google, YouTube's parent company, fine-tunes a portal that lets schools limit students' access …
Mike Isaac / Wired:
With Schemer, Google Plots to Bolster Its Social Efforts  —  AUSTIN, Texas — Google's official party line is “Don't be evil.”  Scheming while twirling a nefarious handlebar mustache, however, seems to be a different story.  —  The data giant isn't going all Snidely Whiplash on us.

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