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Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Why Ad Blocking is devastating to the sites you love — Did you know that blocking ads truly hurts the websites you visit? We recently learned that many of our readers did not know this, so I'm going to explain why. — There is an oft-stated misconception that if a user never clicks on ads …
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HotHardware.com News, Rob Sayre's Mozilla Blog, Ryan Stewart, p2pnet, The Loop, Daring Fireball and rc3.org, Thanks:arjo
Arn / MacRumors:
Apple Airs First iPad Commercial During Oscars, Steve Jobs at Event [Ad Video Posted] — Apple just aired their first iPad commercial during the 82nd Annual Academy Awards. A description of the ad by Doju: — The commercial was just on, depicted a person using the iPad on their lap …
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Apple's New Stance On ‘Cookie Cutter’ Apps: Add More Features Or Perish — In the wake of Apple's sudden decision to remove nearly all “sexy” applications from the App Store, we've been hearing that the company is also clamping down on so-called “cookie-cutter” applications …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
Foursquare Just Made Your Location History A Lot More Interesting — As has been made abundantly clear to me over the past two weeks, just about every location-based service is planning big things for the SXSW festival, which starts later this week in Austin, Texas.
Mark Landler / New York Times:
U.S. Hopes Internet Exports Will Help Open Closed Societies — WASHINGTON — Seeking to exploit the Internet's potential for prying open closed societies, the Obama administration will permit technology companies to export online services like instant messaging, chat and photo sharing to Iran …
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Will M / All Facebook:
Facebook Ads: “Keywords” Will Change to “Likes and Interests” This Week — Facebook is making a small but profound change to Facebook Ads: “Keywords” will now be known as “Likes and Interests.” The change will be visible in the Facebook Ads interface starting the week of March 8th.
Mary Lou Jepsen / What's Happening at Pixel Qi:
DIY Pixel Qi Kits — Just a quick note to say the DIY kits from our distributor will be available towards the end of Q2. We will be announcing with them prior to distrbution. Thanks for your patience. — One of the reasons I'm personally committed to doing this goes …
Wade Roush / Xconomy:
Berners-Lee to Share Reins at World Wide Web Consortium with Former IBM, Lucent, Novell Exec — Wade Roush wrote: — Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and director of the Cambridge, MA-based World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), which oversees the standards underlying the global network, has a new co-captain.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Andreessen's Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats” — Legend has it that when Cortes landed in Mexico in the 1500s, he ordered his men to burn the ships that had brought them there to remove the possibility of doing anything other than going forward into the unknown.
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Daily Patricia, bijan sabet, Kindle Review, TomsTechBlog.com, Silicon Alley Insider and TeleRead, Thanks:atul
Dieter Bohn / PreCentral.net:
Rumor: Palm Elan - Mystery AT&T webOS Smartphone? (Update: or perhaps just the Pixi) — Never underestimate the investigative search prowess of PreCentral members. Shadow-36 tips us to let us know that he's done some digging based off some information dropped by TopTongueBarry …
Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:
Energizer Bunny's software infects PCs — USB battery recharger status software contains Trojan, says US-CERT — Computerworld - The Energizer Bunny infects PCs with backdoor malware, the Department of Homeland Security's US-CERT said Friday. — According to researchers at US-CERT …
Ernesto / TorrentFreak:
And BitTorrent's Oscar Goes To.... District 9 — Tonight, Hollywoods biggest stars will walk the red carpet into the Kodak Theater for the Academy Awards ceremony. — In anticipation of the glamorous Oscar night, we enter the dark side of the movie business to find out which of the 10 nominees …
