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| David Gelernter / Wired: |
The End of the Web, Computers, and Search as We Know It — People ask what the next web will be like, but there won't be a next web. — The space-based web we currently have will gradually be replaced by a time-based worldstream. It's already happening, and it all began with the lifestream …
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garry's posterous, Beyond Search, ZDNet, ROUGH TYPE and Stowe Boyd
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @nikcub, @marshallk, @stevesi, @miguelrios, @stevenlevy, @_mstevenson and @wiredopinion
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
Twitter Got Hacked. Expect More Companies to Follow. — The last week of tech headlines reads like some sort of cybersecurity end of days scenario. The New York Times hacked. The Wall Street Journal hacked. The Washington Post hacked. — And finally on Friday, Twitter … | Tony Romm / Politico: |
Washington talks cybersecurity after Chinese attacks — Washington is grappling again with the prying eyes of Chinese hackers. — A string of computer breaches at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and other media organizations have drawn a frustrated response … | Washington Post: |
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CNET, The Verge, Guardian, Gizmodo, Gizmodo, SecurityWeek and ChinaFile
Tweets: @ericfish85 and @gaberivera
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Super Bowl plans to handle 30,000 Wi-Fi users at once—and sniff out “rogue devices” — Where the Super Bowl—and a gigantic Wi-Fi network—awaits 73,000 fans. — Superdome.com — When 73,208 fans file into the New Orleans Superdome for the Super Bowl on Sunday, they'll have to follow the usual rules …
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PC World, CNET, Gizmodo, Computerworld and VentureBeat
| George Dvorsky / io9: |
New $1.6 billion supercomputer project will attempt to simulate the human brain — In what is the largest and most significant effort to re-create the human brain to date, an international group of researchers has secured $1.6 billion to fund the incredibly ambitious Human Brain Project.
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Engadget
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sycamore Networks: From $45 Billion to Zilch — There was a time when Sycamore Networks Inc. was the next big thing—a leader in the race to direct digital traffic across the Internet. — This is not that time. On Friday, Sycamore all but went out of business.
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Boston Herald, VCCircle and Corporate Intelligence
| Tony Romm / Politico: |
House puts Spotify on mute — Spotify apparently hit a wrong note with the House's Internet overlords, who recently blocked the chamber's Web users from listening to the famed music-streaming service. — While Spotify isn't a peer-to-peer program along the lines of Napster … | Matthew Lynley / Digits: |
The Big Money Behind Hit Game Minecraft — It takes 3,000 employees for Zynga —the largest social-gaming company in the world—to generate some $200 million in annual cash flow. — From an office in Stockholm, a largely unknown company brought in about half that sum. Its employee count: 29.| Kevin Morris / Daily Dot: |
This Facebook page you like is actually spam — Aly Monique spends her days studying nursing in Chicago, but at night she plays a stylist online. At the social-shopping site Polyvore, she creates fashionable ensembles with chic bags and cute designer dresses and sexy shoes.
Tweets: @mims
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Ramps Up News Discovery Battle Against Apps Like Flipboard With “Articles Related To” — Rather than trust your friends and favorite Pages to post interesting stuff, Facebook is taking news discovery into its own hands with “Articles Related To...”.
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Inside Facebook
| Andrea Chang / Los Angeles Times: |
After Jody Sherman death, tech community seeks dialogue on suicide — Silicon Beach is mourning the death of entrepreneur and Ecomom co-founder Jody Sherman this week. Sherman, 47, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said. Since his death Monday, several L.A. tech bloggers … | Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Kim Dotcom launches Mega vulnerability reward program, offering up to $13,500 per bug — Kim Dotcom has officially launched his Mega vulnerability reward program that was announced last week. As we reported earlier, the founder of Mega, the newly launched file storage service …
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MEGA, PC Magazine, AllThingsD, SlashGear, New York Times, The Register and Ars Technica
| Ben Smith / BuzzFeed: |
The Best Parenting App Is Against The Law — Outdated rules and overzealous regulators mean kids can't use Path. Stop COPPA! — Via: path.com — The Federal Trade Commission levied a $800,000 fine on the social networking service Path Friday morning for having, among other things … Sponsor Posts
Microsoft BizSpark:
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …
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 …
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 …
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:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
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).
“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).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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