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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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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.
| 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: @howardlindzon, @karaswisher, @peterrojas, @arrington, @mathewi and @davewiner
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Blurred Navision: Microsoft may owe Denmark more than $1b in unpaid taxes — American software juggernaut Microsoft may owe Denmark's treasury department several billions of Danish kroner in unpaid taxes, according to a report from DR, the country's national broadcasting corporation.
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| Russ Buettner / New York Times: |
Former Dot-com Millionaire Guilty of Selling Drugs — At the height of dot-com mania 13 years ago, Jennifer Sultan and a few colleagues sold their small technology company for $70 million in stock and cash. She and her boyfriend rented a large house in the Hamptons for the summer and bought a spacious loft near Union Square.
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| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
I.T. Managers Struggle to Contain Corporate Data in the Mobile Age — SAN FRANCISCO — As is the case with many busy people, Delyn Simons's life has become an open phone app of commingled corporate and personal information. — “I've got Dropbox, Box, YouSendIt, Teambox, Google Drive,” …
Tweets: @qhardy and @nicoleperlroth
| Kristian Vatto / AnandTech: |
Seagate to Discontinue 7200rpm 2.5" Drives Later This Year — Earlier today X-bit Labs reported that Seagate will stop the production of their 7200RPM 2.5" drives by the end of this year and I just got a confirmation from Seagate that this is really the case.
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| Wayne Williams / BetaNews: |
Xbox Live premieres its first movie — In tough economic times, raising the money and getting a movie made without any major stars in it can be more than a little challenging for independent film makers. Getting it distributed is even harder. — So instead of trying to get their movie into cinemas …
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| Quinn Norton / The Atlantic Online: |
Life Inside the Aaron Swartz Investigation — A reluctant witness's account of a Federal prosecution. If you haven't been following the case, start with the editor's note for context. — Once your life is inside a federal investigation, there is no space outside of it.| Christopher S. Stewart / Wall Street Journal: |
As Pirates Run Rampant, TV Studios Dial Up Pursuit — By the glow of six flat screens inside a windowless room in a California office tower, three content cops from NBCUniversal watch as pirated versions of the cable-TV drama “Suits” begin popping up on the Internet within minutes of the show's closing credits.| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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