| Anne Cai / MIT's The Tech: |
| Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing: |
RIP, Aaron Swartz — To the extent possible under law, Cory Doctorow has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to “RIP, Aaron Swartz.” — Update: Go read Lessig: “He was brilliant, and funny. A kid genius. A soul, a conscience, the source of a question I have asked myself a million times: What would Aaron think?| Lawrence Lessig / Lessig Blog, v2: |
Prosecutor as bully — (Some will say this is not the time. I disagree. This is the time when every mixed emotion needs to find voice.) — Since his arresting the early morning of January 11, 2011 — two years to the day before Aaron Swartz ended his life — I have known more about the events … | John Schwartz / New York Times: |
Aaron Swartz, Precocious Programmer and Internet Activist, Dies at 26 — Aaron Swartz, a wizardly programmer who as a teenager helped to develop a computer code that provided a format for delivering regularly changing Web content and in later life became an unwavering crusader … | Alex Stamos / Unhandled Exception: |
| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Oracle Corp to fix Java security flaw “shortly” — (Reuters) - Oracle Corp said it is preparing an update to address a flaw in its widely used Java software after the U.S. Department of Homeland Security urged computer users to disable the program in web browsers because criminal hackers are exploiting a security bug to attack PCs.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Microsoft declares Windows RT Jailbreak tool is safe, says it ‘appreciates the work of researchers’ — On Thursday, the Windows RT Jailbreak tool was released, opening the door further for a Microsoft Surface homebrew community. We asked Microsoft to expand on its previous comments … | Steven Millward / Tech in Asia: |
Tencent Responds in Case of Apparent WeChat Censorship — The evidence. — Yesterday we broke the story of how WeChat, the world's biggest Whatsapp-style messaging app, was apparently censoring words that are deemed “sensitive” on the Chinese web right now.| The Verge: |
The Verge Awards: the best of CES 2013 — This is not about revenge. This is about justice. This is the best of CES 2013. — We came, we saw, we got lost in a virtual world. And now we're back. The show that was supposed to be the last of the biggest — the end of the best … | Douglas MacMillan / Business Week: |
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Fights to Keep His Job — After Andrew Mason founded Groupon (GRPN) in 2008, companies like Google (GOOG) and LivingSocial rushed to imitate the daily deal business he created. Less than five years later, the allure of discounted spa packages and wine-tasting classes has faded.| Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times: |
Fred Wilson hints that Twitter is profitable — Thursday night, I responded to a tweet by Howard Lindzon, chief executive and co-founder of Stocktwits, about newspapers and Twitter. That prompted a reply from Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson, who was an early Twitter investor and former board member.| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
The less expensive iPhone — Rumors of a less expensive iPhone, in one form or another, certainly aren't new. Rumors follow want. We want iPhones, the less expensive iPhones are the more of them we can have, and the more often we can have them. We know that. Analysts know that.
Featured Startup on Windows Phone - Digital Geek — You know how you are at the beach sometimes, listening to your portable listening device, jamming to some music and you realize, “Actually, at this moment …
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“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).This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 5:15 PM ET, January 12, 2013.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
| Daniel Perez / Ubergizmo: |
| Gregory T. Huang / Xconomy: |
| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
| Aloysius Low / CNET: |
| Geneva Sands / Hillicon Valley: |
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |