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Dark Social: We Have the Whole History of the Web Wrong — Here's a pocket history of the web, according to many people. In the early days, the web was just pages of information linked to each other. Then along came web crawlers that helped you find what you wanted among all that information.
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AT&T Starts Six-Strikes Anti-Piracy Plan Next Month, Will Block Websites — Last year the MPAA and RIAA teamed up with five major Internet providers in the United States to launch the Center for Copyright Information (CCI). — The parties agreed on a system through which subscribers …
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Windows 8 campaign kicks off with first official television commercial — Microsoft has just released its first official Windows 8 commercial that highlights the upcoming release of Windows 8. The advert, which you can see above, first ran at about 12:50 PM EST.| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
SNL's Sketch Pits iPhone 5 Factory Workers Problems Against The Tech Critics — Saturday Night Live's latest parody sketch gives life to that oft-quted phrase ‘first world problems’. (Here's an alternative link if the one above doesn't work). In a biting take-down of some of the legitimate … | Joab Jackson / Computerworld: |
Apache Lucene/Solr expands across many servers — The Apache Software Foundation's widely used open source Lucene/Solr search engine package has been upgraded to accommodate its users' seemingly insatiable need to collect and use ever-larger amounts of data.
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| Fruzsina Eördögh / ReadWriteWeb: |
[Infographic] YouTube's Top 1,000 Channels Reveal An Industry Taking Shape — YouTube is still the pesky younger sibling of television, which is the wicked uncle of Hollywood. But the social video site is slowly becoming a formidable medium in its own right, creating new business models … | Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal: |
When the Most Personal Secrets Get Outed on Facebook — AUSTIN, Texas—Bobbi Duncan desperately wanted her father not to know she is lesbian. Facebook told him anyway. — One evening last fall, the president of the Queer Chorus, a choir group she had recently joined …
Tweets: @davewiner, @jerkob and @dsilverman
| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Reddit leaders deflect censorship criticism and defend hands-off policies — In wake of the Gawker ban controversy, Reddit's powerful moderators test commitment to free speech — Reddit's prides itself on its decentralized meritocracy —"subreddits are a free market.| Robert Wiltbank, PhD / TechCrunch: |
Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5X Returns Overall — Editor's note: Robert Wiltbank, PhD, is a professor at Willamette University, where he and Wade Brooks run an angel investing fund managed by second-year MBA students. He is on the board of the Angel Resource Institute …
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U.S. Suspects Iranians Were Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks — WASHINGTON — American intelligence officials are increasingly convinced that Iran was the origin of a serious wave of network attacks that crippled computers across the Saudi oil industry and breached financial institutions in the United States …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
LulzSec hacker “neuron” pleads guilty to Sony Pictures security breach — An Arizona man has admitted to hacking a Sony Pictures website and making off with personal information for thousands of individuals as part of a campaign by the LulzSec collective. — Raynaldo Rivera …
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Amazon to Kindle customers: There's an antitrust refund incoming — Amazon has begun notifying Kindle users that they may have a refund on ebook purchases in the pipeline, in the aftermath of the antitrust settlement around price-fixing by publishers. The message, sent out to users …
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