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Advertisers: Pay No Attention to the Data We Are Stealing

Several marketing associations supported by Google have banded together and released seven principles that they believe should govern online privacy. Are you ready for a journey to the Emerald City? Because the principles are the online advertisers’ attempts to stave off government regulation ... (original story)

Study says Patents Hurt Innovation

According to a study published in The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, patents may be harming our ability to innovate. Patents and the Regress of Useful Arts, written by Bill Tomlinson of UC Irvine and Andrew Torrance of University of Kansas School of Law, tested the hypothesis with a gam... (original story)

Twine Tries To Manage The Stream With New Coverflow-Like Design

What is the best way to sift through a stream of information? The list view seems to be the most popular because it is information-dense and easy to scan, but it can be overwhelming. More visually appealing ways to manage data are needed. Twine, a site which lets you collect and subscribe to different interest feeds, just introduced a new way to wade through its streams. The new Flash visualization presents your stream of shared links as a deck of headlines which you can shuffle through (see video below). A slider along the bottom, lets you cycle through the deck by time, and arrows ... (original story)

GoDaddy Wants You to Go Twitter

Ideally, your brand has the same name across all of the social sites you use, and, it matches your domain name (for example, we’re mashable.com, twitter.com/mashable, and facebook.com/mashable). Realizing this fact, popular domain registrar GoDaddy has integrated Twitter registration into its do... (original story)

BillFlo Discusses First Year Learnings

As an entrepreneur, it's always interesting to read about lessons other startups have learned as they move on their journeys. Paperless invoicing startup BillFlo has just hit their one-year anniversary and have put together a list of some of the lessons they have learned. The lessons include: Cus... (original story)

iPhone 3GS Used to Film Music Video: Technologic Overkill

Not to be confused with the first music video about the iPhone 3GS (”Got My Mac on With iPhone 3GS“), the first video purportedly shot using the camera on the new device is making its way around the web. The video – “Technologic Overkill” – is directed by filmmaker Steve El... (original story)

Everything You Wanted To Know About Facebook's Revenue But Didn't Know Who To Ask

We get a lot of questions about how Facebook makes its money, so here are our best estimates. We've heard from a couple reliable sources that when it was looking for its latest funding, Facebook told investors 2009 revenues would reach $550 million.  If that's true, Facebook is growing quicker ... (original story)

Murdoch Calls Twitter Worthless, Says CNBC Talent Not That Good

News Corp (NWS) chairman Rupert Murdoch's media tour continues, and he gives Dan Freed at TheStreet.com some typical juicy morsels to gnaw on in a Q&A. On buying the New York Times: "Nonsense. . . I haven't even thought about it. I would imagine that it would be legally and politically almost imposs... (original story)

Apple patent could offer hope to iPhone touchscreen haters

One of the earliest and most constant complaints about the iPhone has been its touchscreen keyboard. While these comments seem to have died down a bit, I still hear from BlackBerry loyalists and inveterate SMS texters that the iPhone keyboard just doesn’t provide enough feedback. Now, it looks... (original story)

Google App Engine Broken For 4 Hours And Counting

A little over two hours ago, a Google employee posted a note in this Google Groups thread indicating that Google App Engine was "seeing elevated Datastore latency and error-rates, as well as elevated serving error-rates." He noted that the problem began around 6:30 AM Pacific time and that the team ... (original story)



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