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Off topic: View from the top, mapping the moon, library project, name that rap
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449 days ago Levi Sumagaysay No Comments

Off topic: View from the top, mapping the moon, library project, name that rap

Talk about "an office with a view.": A Reuters photo essay about the iron workers erecting the skeleton of One World Trade in Manhattan. Explore the moon, map its craters. (via Fast Company) Read More →
Facebook filing provides a few new nuggets; still no stock price
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449 days ago Chris O'Brien 4 Comments

Facebook filing provides a few new nuggets; still no stock price

Two of the updates in the new Facebook S-1 involve legal disclosures. There's the disclosure of the Yahoo patent lawsuit:
"From time to time, we receive notice letters from patent holders alleging that certain of our products and services infringe their Read More →
Tech and policy: the FTC on privacy; Comcast, Xbox and net neutrality
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449 days ago Levi Sumagaysay 1 Comment

Tech and policy: the FTC on privacy; Comcast, Xbox and net neutrality

What's cooking at the intersection of tech and policy: • The new consumer privacy standards unveiled Monday by the FTC — what good will they do? As Mike Swift of the Mercury News reported, the Federal Trade Commission's report establishes Read More →
Censor talk: A call for Google to filter search results; Twitter racists; Pakistan plan
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450 days ago Levi Sumagaysay No Comments

Censor talk: A call for Google to filter search results; Twitter racists; Pakistan plan

What's new on the Censor Ship, which is navigating through the waters of murky laws and such: • A committee of U.K. lawmakers is urging legislation to require Google to filter its search results to comply with British privacy Read More →
Quoted: Mike Daisey says sorry
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450 days ago Levi Sumagaysay 1 Comment

Quoted: Mike Daisey says sorry

"Things came out of my mouth that just weren’t true, and over time, I couldn’t even hear the difference myself." — Mike Daisey, in an apology posted on his blog. The performance artist, creator of the popular one-man theater Read More →
Off topic: The 47 dwarves, city walking, pens for surgery, ‘The Godfather’ GIFs, drawing machine
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450 days ago Levi Sumagaysay 1 Comment

Off topic: The 47 dwarves, city walking, pens for surgery, ‘The Godfather’ GIFs, drawing machine

Bashful, Dopey, Grumpy et al could've been Burpy, Dirty, Lazy, Wheezy. On time, money and why people in cities walk fast. The best kinds of pens for emergency tracheotomies include the BIC Soft Feel Read More →
Stock watch: Microsoft, Intel
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450 days ago Levi Sumagaysay 2 Comments

Stock watch: Microsoft, Intel

• Microsoft is seeing a healthy bump in its shares, perhaps on news that Nokia will launch (revised) what is being billed as its its first high-end Windows smartphone (end revised) in the United States on April 8. The Lumia Read More →
Fundraising metrics behind Kony 2012 revealed
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450 days ago Chris O'Brien 2 Comments

Fundraising metrics behind Kony 2012 revealed

The social media buzz around the Kony 2012 campaign has subsided over the past week. For about a week or so, though it was inescapable. So just how big was it? For some perspective, I recently talked with Scot Chisolm, CEO Read More →
Corporate raiders of the purple ark, the sequel: Will new search for answers at Yahoo yield different result?
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450 days ago Levi Sumagaysay No Comments

Corporate raiders of the purple ark, the sequel: Will new search for answers at Yahoo yield different result?

Once again, Yahoo could deliver for those who like to watch a good fight. With the troubled Sunnyvale company announcing three new board directors Sunday — surprise, not one of them is recommended by activist investor Read More →
Quoted: Can you draw ’0 to 60′?
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451 days ago Levi Sumagaysay No Comments

Quoted: Can you draw ’0 to 60′?

"They bought a property that went from 0 to 60 in four seconds." — Lewis Ward, IDC research analyst, on Zynga's $180 million purchase last week of OMGPOP, maker of "Draw Something." The mobile drawing game was Read More →

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