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Disruptions: As User Interaction on Facebook Drops, Sharing Comes at a Cost — Updated — Something is puzzling on Facebook. — Early last year, soon after Facebook instituted a feature that let people subscribe to others' feeds without being friends, I quickly amassed a healthy “subscriber” list of about 25,000 people.
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Nick O'Neill and Echo Blog. Tweets: @pkafka, @erickschonfeld, @hunterwalk, @om, @alexiskold, @joshconstine and @pkafka
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Facebook's News Feed, A Skittish Gift Horse — Remember Facebook Questions? Checkins? Spotify listens? They had their time at the top of the news feed because Facebook favors new products, but their prominence diminished as they matured. This and competition for space between posts …
Tweets: @joshd
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Other Reasons Nick Bilton Seeing FB Decline — NYTimes columnist Nick Bilton wrote today that he's seeing massive declines in organic Facebook engagement on his posts. He cites last year receiving hundreds of likes per post but now having 1/10th that despite growing subscribers 20x.
Tweets: @zseward
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Open and Shut — Tim Wu, writing for The New Yorker “News Desk”, has done us all a grand favor by penning a sort of grand unified theory on how the “open beats closed” axiom can be true in the face of Apple's decade-long success: “Does a Company Like Apple Need a Genius Like Steve Jobs?”
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Tweets: @cdixon, @rstephens, @viticci, @digiphile, @dujkan and @panzer
| Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: |
There Was That Whole Internet Thing, Too — Anyone wanting to see the whole “history is written by the victors” thing in process should read Tim Wu and John Gruber battle it out over exactly why Apple has kicked the crap out of everyone else since the late 90s.
Tweets: @karaswisher, @arrington, @peterrojas and @erickschonfeld
| Steve Mann / IEEE Spectrum: |
My “Augmediated” Life — What I've learned from 35 years of wearing computerized eyewear — Back in 2004, I was awakened early one morning by a loud clatter. I ran outside, only to discover that a car had smashed into the corner of my house. As I went to speak with the driver … | Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Marc Andreessen And Ben Horowitz ‘Decode’ Groupon CEO Andrew Mason's Farewell Memo — On Rap Genius — When Andreessen Horowitz invested a whopping $15 million into Rap Genius this past fall, they were keen to point out that the platform can be used for decoding more than song lyrics …
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Rap Genius and Business Insider
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CloudFlare Was Down Due To Edge Routers Crashing, Taking Down 785,000 Websites Including 4chan, Wikileaks, Metallica.com — Security and caching service CloudFlare was down for close to an hour due to an issue with its edge routers. It's now back up and running.
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CloudFlare blog, The Register, PC Magazine, CNET, VentureBeat, TechnoLlama and GigaOM
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
The age of the brag is over: why Facebook might be losing teens — One week ago, Facebook Director of Product Blake Ross announced that he'd leave the company in a goodbye letter he posted on his profile page. Ross wrote: — “I'm leaving because a Forbes writer asked his son's best friend Todd …
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CNET, Guardian, Business Insider, The Journalism Iconoclast and SlashGear. Tweets: @karaswisher
| Surur / WMPoweruser: |
Job posting confirms Holidays target for next major Windows Phone release — There has been some controversy about the time scales for the next major release for Windows Phone and its counterpart for Windows 8. — According to Mary Jo Foley Windows Phone Blue will come after the Windows 8 release …
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Gizmodo, MobileSyrup.com, CNET, The Next Web, The Verge, WinBeta, Neowin, Pocket-lint and PhoneArena
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Jolla Wants To Build A Foursquare Phone, A Facebook Phone — Whatever It Takes To Wake Smartphones From Their Android Slumber — Finnish startup Jolla is open for business. That's the message CEO Marc Dillon was putting out, loud and clear, during two on-stage appearances at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow in Barcelona last week.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple finally catching up with new iMac demand, now shipping both sizes in 1-3 days — Apple seems to have finally caught up with demand for its latest iMac models. Both the new 21.5-inch and 27-inch iMacs are now shipping from Apple's online store in 1-3 business days.| Dave Engberg / Evernote Blog: |
Security Notice: Service-wide Password Reset — The following blog post is also being sent to all Evernote users as an email communication. — Evernote's Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt …
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Tweets: @bill_gross, @1password, @edbott and @caseynewton
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