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06 Nov 2010 19:47

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Tech: Proxy war: Facebook, Google fighting over your friends

  • cause Google, looking to build its own social networking product to compete with Facebook (Orkut doesn’t count apparently) wants Facebook to open up its data stream so they can use it.
  • reaction Facebook says no, so Google changes their policy so Facebook can’t simply grab contacts from Gmail accounts anymore. You joined Facebook five years ago, so it doesn’t matter. source
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05 Nov 2010 23:18

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Tech: Steve Ballmer decides to cash out some Microsoft shares

  • $1.3 billion, or 12 percent, of Ballmer’s stake sold source
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04 Nov 2010 10:25

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Tech: Soviet photoshopping technology, circa 1987: This is rad.

  • Who needs Photoshop? Not the Soviets. Years before Photoshop became the photo-editing software du jour, they already had some fairly advanced photo-retouching technology. Sure, the tools were a little big and clunky, but clearly they were ultra-effective. If only they had kept at it a little longer; we might all be speaking Russian at the moment. source
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04 Nov 2010 10:09

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Tech, World: Turkey proves that no, they don’t really understand YouTube

  • dumb Turkey, concerned about clips offensive to founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, bans YouTube from the country.
  • smart Now that the clips are offline, Turkey unbanned YouTube. Hello, Keyboard Cat! Hello, Numa Numa Guy!
  • dumb Turkey found ANOTHER clip that offended them, and now YouTube could get blocked for another 30 months. source
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01 Nov 2010 21:17

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Tech: Off-topic: We really want this guitar. Please buy it for us. Please?

  • OK, OK, we know it’s early … But it’s almost that time again. With radio stations across the country beginning to change their formats to Christmas music, we want to suggest a Christmas present for the ShortFormBlog staff (OK, mostly Julius). A robotic Gibson Firebird guitar. This bad boy will only set you back an easy-to-pay-back-in-installments $5,570. And it’s made with the kind of forward-thinking technologies that we’ll put to good use by playing Oasis tunes off of “Be Here Now.” “Don’t go a-way, say what you’ll say, say that you’ll stay, forever and a day …” source
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01 Nov 2010 18:55

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Tech: Need some extra cash? Make Google less vulnerable

  • $500 or more could be yours if you fix Google’s bugs source
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31 Oct 2010 21:27

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Tech: Why did super-developer Lars Rasmussen leave Google, anyway?

  • what Lars Rasmussen, a key Google staffer who famously crated Google Maps (and Google Wave) decided to leave the company recently. Understandable, because they killed his Google Wave baby.
  • why He’s going to Facebook! He revealed the news to the Sydney Morning Herald, saying: “It feels to me that Facebook may be a sort of once-in-a-decade type of company.” We can see that. source
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31 Oct 2010 11:45

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Tech: Evan Williams learns he’s not the best guy to run Twitter

  • The thing I’ve learned that’s much different than any other time in my life is I have a team that is really, really great. I’ve been studying this stuff for a really long time, and I’ve screwed up in many, many, many ways in terms of managing people and product decisions and business, so I feel fairly confident at this point that it could scale pretty well.
  • Twitter co-founder Evan Williams • Explaining why he decided to step down from his CEO position last month. To put it simply, he’s a big idea guy, but a terrible boss. And in case you need any proof of that, consider three things: First, when Blogger’s business model weakened during the dot-com bubble and he couldn’t pay anyone, he ran the company by himself for a while. Second, when Twitter first became immensely popular, Williams’ first instinct wasn’t to hire more people to ensure the site was up all the time. And third, Evan Williams famously flopped during a speech at SXSW earlier this year. Idea guy he is. Steve Jobs he is not. source
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31 Oct 2010 11:05

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Tech: Guy sticks USB ports in random NYC walls for some reason

Is that a random USB port sticking out of the wall, or are you just happy to see me? Careful, you can get STDs from these if you’re not careful. source
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31 Oct 2010 10:57

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Tech: Apple and Motorola lawsuits more annoying than anything

  • All these lawsuits between Apple and Motorola are silly. In the latest suit (a counter-suit, even), the iPhone maker sued Motorola for using multitouch technology (among other things which Apple owns patents for) in nine of its phones, including each of the popular Droid models. These suits are excuses for each company to get in the other’s hair, and basically do nothing useful. Honestly, if Apple was really serious about fighting these claims against their multitouch technology, they would’ve sued when the first Droid phone came out. Now, it just seems like a vindictive attempt at leverage. source
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