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A competitive landscape, and disgruntled partners and advertisers, challenge YouTube's dominance — YouTube Turns 10: How Competition Crashed the Party — If there could be said to be a poster boy for YouTube, it may well be Freddie Wong. Known online as FreddieW, the 29-year-old is the creator of … | Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
YouTube may launch subscription video service for a monthly fee — YouTube may soon have a subscription option for its best original content. A comment buried in a Variety report reveals that the Google-owned video site is “exploring the prospect of launching its own subscription VOD service.”
Tweets: @tcarmody
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Gigaom's former VP of Research on how venture capital and the growth expectations that come with it contributed to Gigaom's demise — Gigaom: The Life and Death of a Venture Funded Media Startup — As most know, we lost Gigaom last week. It was a sudden passing of a widely beloved tech media company …
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The dual personality of Reddit: a problem for CEO Ellen Pao should she try to cleanse the site — Reddit: can anyone clean up the mess behind ‘the front page of the internet’? — The social news site is almost as famous for its never-ending supply of creepy subforums as it is for memes, pictures and assorted lols.| John Herrman / Matter: |
What it's like to go from using an iPhone to using a low-end generic BLU Android smartphone — I was an iPhone man once, like you. Then S**tphone changed everything. — Last month my fourth iPhone in six years was, in medical terms, crashing. The screen, which had pulled away from its glue, was behaving strangely.
Tweets: @99u, @mkonnikova, @whatthebit, @caseyjohnston and @kashhill
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Evolution of the smartwatch, like the smartphone, will be a multi-year, multi-vendor effort, with Apple Watch now contributing app-centric approach and Wi-Fi — Apple's contribution to the smartwatch: An app-centric approach and Wi-Fi — Key differences make Android Wear and Apple Watch two very different platforms.| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
How ResearchKit minimizes obstacles to participation, enabling transformative medical research — ResearchKit An “Enormous Opportunity” For Science, Says Breast Cancer Charity — This week Apple bundled a big announcement inside it's long awaited Apple Watch ‘Spring Forward’ event.| Matt McGee / Search Engine Land: |
Google inserting conspicuous message above search results urging Firefox users to switch default search engines — Google Is Practically Begging Firefox Users To Switch Their Default Search Engine — It almost looks desperate. Google has placed a big, new message above its organic search results … | Charles Babcock / InformationWeek: |
Widely-used open source Network Time Protocol depends primarily on one overworked project lead — NTP's Fate Hinges On ‘Father Time’ — The Network Time Protocol provides a foundation to modern computing. So why does NTP's support hinge so much on the shaky finances of one 59-year-old developer?
Tweets: @kylemaxwell, @storagezilla and @holdenweb
| Davey Alba / Wired: |
IDC revises projections for 2015 PC shipments downward, now expects a 5% drop this year — No, Really, the PC Is Dying and It's Not Coming Back — A little while back, we started to hear a few voices speaking up against the drumbeat of doom. No, PCs weren't dead. They were maybe even coming back.| Andrea Rodriguez / Associated Press: |
Cuba allows for the country's first free public Wi-Fi network at Havana cultural center — Cuba allows rare free public Wi-Fi at Havana cultural center — Adonis Ortiz chats with his father, who lives in the U.S., using a free Wi-Fi network at a center run by famed artist Kcho, in Havana, Cuba, Wednesday, March 11, 2015.
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| Max Chafkin / Fast Company: |
YC-backed nonprofit DemocracyOS runs a small political party in Argentina that votes based on polling it conducts online — Why Y Combinator Funded a Radical Political Party in Argentina — “I got my five guys!” — It's a Wednesday morning in mid-February, and Pia Mancini isn't talking about hamburgers.Sponsor Posts
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