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May 6, 2012, 5:10 AM

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Kim Zetter / Wired:
Everyone Has Been Hacked.  Now What?  —  The attackers chose their moment well.  —  On Apr. 7, 2011, five days before Microsoft patched a critical zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that had been publicly disclosed three months earlier on a security mailing list …
Tweets: @e_kaspersky
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Campus Tsunami  —  Online education is not new.  The University of Phoenix started its online degree program in 1989.  Four million college students took at least one online class during the fall of 2007.  —  But, over the past few months, something has changed.
More: TechCrunch and Darren HermanTweets: @dan_preiss
John Biggs / TechCrunch:
New Start Up CodeNow.Com Lets You Build And Test Code In Real Time, In Your Browser  —  Trying new APIs is tricky.  You can spend hours setting things up, gaining permissions, and learning syntax before you even get to write one line of code.  That's why CodeNow.com is cool.
Tweets: @stevecheney
Steven Troughton-Smith / High Caffeine Content:
2007's pre-M3 version of Android; the Google Sooner  —  When Google first showed off Android, they showed it running on a device very similar to Blackberries or Nokia E-class devices of the time.  This device was the Google Sooner - an OMAP850 device built by HTC, with no touchscreen or WiFi.
More: The VergeThanks:@sidharthdassani
Josh Constine / TechCrunch:
YC Price Guide Startup Priceonomics Raises $1.5M Seed From Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel  —  How much should you pay for a used iPhone, TV, or bicycle?  Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, SV Angel and more think you need to know, so they've invested $1.5 million into Priceonomics, a Y Combinator winter 2012 startup.
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
White House Reiterates Plans To Veto CISPA In Its Current Form; Though For The Wrong Reasons  —  As I'm sure you remember, the House passed CISPA with a few amendments — some of which may have limited the possible abuses, while at the same time expanding the scope.
Wall Street Journal:
Yahoo, Alibaba Working on New, Taxable Deal  —  Yahoo Inc. has been working on a new deal to sell a portion of its stake in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. back to the Asian company, and a transaction could be completed within weeks, people familiar with the matter said.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Hachi Combines LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter & Google Into One, Lets You Search All Your Connections At Once  —  OK, this is cool.  A new networking utility called Hachi is taking some of the best functionality offered by LinkedIn (searching by name, company, title, etc. and seeing …
Thanks:@theparida

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Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry  —  In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls  —  For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Boosting Big Data and the Hadoop Ecosystem with Splunk Alliance  —  Today we announced a strategic alliance with operational intelligence leader Splunk.  We are excited to be strengthening our relationship …
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
 

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