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Twitter Warns Journalists: “We Believe That These Attacks Will Continue”
— “Please help us keep your accounts secure,” the urgent memo says. — In a memo sent to news organizations, Twitter warns that it expects high profile account hijackings — like the one that took down the AP's Twitter account last week — to continue.
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Facebook Is Taking On Reddit's “Ask Me Anything” Series
— The social network's newest feature could create a rival to Reddit's AMA giant — Watch out, Reddit. — This week, Facebook rolled out a new threaded comment feature, allowing users respond to specific comment in a conversation thread …
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Google Reader Still Drives Far More Traffic Than Google+
— The beloved but doomed Google Reader is still a healthy source of traffic. Google+, on the other hand... According to data from the BuzzFeed Network, a set of tracked partner sites that collectively have over 300 million users …
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Reuters Social Media Editor Indicted For Allegedly Conspiring With Anonymous
— If convicted, Reuters' deputy social media editor Matthew Keys faces up to 25 years in prison and $750,000 in fines. — Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that Matthew Keys, the deputy social media editor for Reuters …
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How “Golden Eagle Snatches Kid” Ruled The Internet
— It's one depressingly typical minute of the 6.2 million uploaded to YouTube every day: In a Montreal park, nothing much is happening. The camera pans around a clear blue sky, tracing the arc of a golden eagle as it twists and turns through the air.
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The Fight To Keep YouTube Online in Egypt
— Egypt's Ministry of Communication and Information Technology says it's impossible to enforce a judge's decree blocking the website. — A protester near Tahrir Square in Cairo, September 13, 2012. — Image by Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters
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Apple's Podcast Disaster
— Is the company that basically invented the podcast putting it out to pasture? — Apple's podcast app is, without a doubt, the worst iOS app it's ever made. Others have been poorly received or largely ignored, but this is unprecedented: With nearly 6,000 ratings …
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How The Web Became Just Another App Store
— And how Google and Apple have taken control of it. — Opera, one of the last of a shrinking pool of independent browsers, is officially changing the way it displays the internet. Soon, rather than using its own rendering engine, Presto, it will render websites using a version of WebKit.
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How Facebook, A Pixar Artist, And Charles Darwin Are Reinventing The Emoticon
— What comes after the smiley? Facebook is trying to find out. — Facebook wants an awful lot from its emoticons: They should be able to convey complex emotions, for example, like contemplation, admiration …
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How Monoprice Is Eating The Tech World From The Inside Out
— An empire built on cheap HDMI cables stretches its reach. Monoprice is angling to be the next huge electronics brand. — Five years ago, Monoprice was associated with two things: HDMI cables and nerds.
Windows Store Weekly — This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
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 …
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value — Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows — We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Skype in the browser — Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.