Techmeme: Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution (The Verge)

January 26, 2013, 4:15 PM

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Carl Franzen / TPM IdeaLab:

Instagram Asking For Your Government Issued Photo IDs Now, Too — Over the past week, a number of users of the popular photo sharing app Instagram and parent company Facebook have been locked out of their accounts and prompted by both services to upload images of their government issued photo IDs …

More: CNET, The Verge, Examiner, PetaPixel, Geeks Hut and AllFacebook

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The Verge:

Redesigning Google: how Larry Page engineered a beautiful revolution — The new Google way is weird, but it's working — Something strange and remarkable started happening at Google immediately after Larry Page took full control as CEO in 2011: it started designing good-looking apps.

More: 9to5Google. Tweets: @binarybits, @google and @hamburger. Thanks:@themadhacker

Casey Newton / CNET:

Review: While “jOBS” fawns over subject, film falls flat — The eagerly awaited biopic of the Apple founder aims to capture a legend, but neglects the world he lived in. — PARK CITY, UTAH—The eagerly awaited biopic “jOBS” opens in 2001, when Apple's iconic co-founder arrives at Town Hall on Apple's Cupertino campus with good news.

More: The Verge, Hollywood Reporter, Cinema Blend Feeds, Forbes, iDownloadBlog.com, Inside Movies, Apple Gazette and CBS News

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Review: jOBS is an entertaining, if impressionistic, portrait of Steve Jobs as a young man — jOBS opens with the introduction of the iPod on October 23, 2001 at an Apple Town Hall meeting. In the audience are a somewhat slimmer Jony Ive and other Apple employees.

More: 9to5Mac, /Film, Reviews, Mercury News, Techi.com, iClarified and Reuters

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

“We Are Supposed To Be Truth Tellers” — A couple of weeks ago CNET was put into an absurd situation - they could not favorably cover a technology product because the company behind that product was in litigation with CNET's parent company, CBS. — I wasn't all that interested in the story at the time.

More: Beyond Search, The Uptake, Daring Fireball and The Verge

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Nicole Lee / Engadget:

Unlocking new phones now banned under DMCA, the EFF weighs in — It was great while it lasted, but the days of users legally unlocking their own phones is over. Back in October of last year, the Library of Congress added an exemption to the DMCA to allow folks to free their new phones for 90 days.

More: Examiner, ABCNEWS, My Nokia Blog, Pocket-lint, CNN, iPhone in Canada Blog and BBC

Edward Moyer / CNET:

In Swartz protest, Anon hacks U.S. site, threatens leaks — Saying “a line was crossed” with the treatment of tech activist Aaron Swartz, the group hacks a government site related to the justice system and distributes encrypted files it says it will decrypt unless demands are met.

More: TechCrunch, ZDNet, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, CNN, The Verge, Reuters, Slate, ABCNEWS, CBS News, The Hacker News, Mashable!, Gawker and E Hacking News

Tweets: @youranonnews and @ioerror

Alyson Shontell / Business Insider:

Group Commerce Has Laid Off 28% Of Its Staff — Group Commerce, an e-commerce platform for publishers that made its name in the daily-deal market, has fired 31 people. — The company confirmed the layoffs to Business Insider. The cuts amount to 28% of its 109-person staff.

More: AllThingsD

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Next-Gen Video Format H.265 Is Approved, Paving The Way For High-Quality Video On Low-Bandwidth Networks — The ITU has approved a new video format that could bring 4k video to future broadband networks, while also making streaming HD video available even on bandwidth-constrained mobile networks.

More: International …, iPhone Hacks, Softpedia News, InfoQ, The Verge, Off On A Tangent, Multichannel.com, Broadcast, Computerworld, Network World and ZDNet

Christina Warren / Mashable!:

MacBook Air Models $200 Off at Best Buy for 2 Days — Looking for a good deal on a MacBook Air? Head to Best Buy over the next two days to save a whopping $200. — Best Buy is running a Winter Doorbuster Days sale Jan. 25 to 26 in stores and online. While there are a lot of good deals …

More: 9to5Mac, App Advice, MacRumors, ZDNet, PC Magazine, The Verge, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Gizmodo, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, Geek.com, Business Insider, Gizmodo and iFans

Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal:

Square Executive Resigns Amid Sexual-Harassment Claims — Square Inc. said its chief operating officer Keith Rabois resigned from the mobile payments company on Thursday, amid accusations from a Square employee of sexual harassment. — A New York attorney, Steven Berger …

More: Examiner, Mario Sundar, Reuters, Mobile Marketing Watch, ZDNet, VentureBeat, GeekWire, CNET, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Betabeat, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, Mashable!, Business Insider and The Next Web

Tweets: @nikcub, @megan, @danprimack, @fmanjoo, @spencerchen, @shontelaylay and @triciad

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive Interview: Keith Rabois Talks About Sexual Harassment Claim, Becoming a “Distraction” …

More: San Francisco Chronicle, Edible Apple, Gawker, The Technology Chronicles, bizjournals and GigaOM

Tweets: @danprimack, @karaswisher and @danprimack

Xeni Jardin / Boing Boing:

Twitter suspends account of Somali Islamist militants linked to Al-Qaeda — Two days after a group of Somali islamist militants vowed to execute Kenyan hostages, and tweeted a video of a captive pleading for the Kenyan government to help free them, the Al-Shabaab Twitter account @HSMPress was suspended.

More: Associated Press, Los Angeles Times and Reuters

Declan McCullagh / CNET:

Swartz didn't face prison until feds took over case, report says — The late Internet activist was facing a stern warning from local prosecutors. But then the U.S. Attorney's office, run by Carmen Ortiz, chose to make an example of Aaron Swartz, a new report says.

More: DailyTech, Media Nation, Boston Herald, Esquire, Techdirt and Daring Fireball. See also Mediagazer

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