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People were lined up around the block at the Apple store in Palo Alto, California to be among the first to buy the new iPad 2. I didn’t count heads but there were certainly hundreds of people on hand.
Frankly, I was surprised at the size of the crowd considering that the iPad 2 is an evolutionary enhancement over its predecessor.

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In January, Facebook made a troubling announcement that it plans to
allow third-party developers to request access to the home addresses
and phone numbers of users. Despite Facebook’s insistence that it
will protect its users, I believe this policy will place users at
great risk. That’s why I wrote a letter with Sens. Charles

Yes, I’m glad I switched from my BlackBerry Curve to the iPhone 3GS. No, I’m not switching back.
But amid the hosannahs and salaaming that always accompany this particular device, it’s time someone finally spoke up about its deficiencies.
So here are three things I hate about my iPhone:
It vaporizes emails I have written that are waiting to be sent. Yesterday afternoon, while I flew east from Arizona to New York in seat 32B, I did everything right. I shut down everything on the phone that could possibly drain extra battery juice, and I dimmed the screen so completely that I could barely see

A proposal: It would be terribly useful if there were a separate convention for tweets from witnesses to major events so their reports can be separated from the discussion that follows. How about !jpquake for witnesses vs. #jpquake for discussion?
Moments after the tragic earthquake hit Japan, folks are reporting on TV, people turned immediately to Twitter to tell friends and family and perhaps the world what was happening to them and to use it to get information and services.
But, of course, in only moments, people around the world talking about the event and the hashtag gets overrun with folks who are talking *about* the event than *from*

For broadcasters seeking to provide a high quality live stream, untethered to an Internet connection and a PC, Livestream has just introduced a device from Teradek called the Cube.
Yesterday we visited CEO Max Haot for an explanation of the new device which works with the Verizon 4G LTE network and gets uploads at better than 8 mbps where the network is available. The Cube, which attached to top of the camera, is an Internet device which is programmed to stream directly to a user’s Livestream channel. There is no need for a PC. Very cool.The device costs from $1500 to $2000 depending on

Veer and Vinay Gidwaney are the kind of people that House Republicans should like. They are young, energetic, brilliant entrepreneurs. They are just the kind of startups and small business creators that members of Congress love to laud as the heart of the economy.
Just a week ago, on March 3, they and four colleagues and friends launched their latest venture, a social networking site called www.dailyfeats.com, their first foray onto the Web. Veer Gidwaney, the CEO of the new company, is

Late Wednesday, Republican members of a key House Commerce subcommittee decided to give phone and cable companies absolute, unrestricted power over the Internet.
By a party-line vote of 15 to 8 they passed a “resolution of disapproval” that would strip the FCC of its ability to protect Internet users — freeing up companies like Verizon and Comcast to block our right to speak freely and share information on the Internet.
This reckless action opens the door even wider to corporate abuse of Net Neutrality, the principle that protects our ability to connect with everyone else online.
Already, cable giants like Comcast are maneuvering to restrict access to competitive video services like Netflix; wireless carrier MetroPCS has unveiled a plan to block users’ access to most video and audio sites.
The majority rammed this vote through without weighing widespread concerns – coming from both public interest advocates and the tech industry – that this resolution is an extreme overreach that gives away our basic Internet freedoms.
Damn the Facts
The House is already set to pass this resolution; it moves next to full committee and the floor. Hopefully, the Senate can muster enough common sense to kill the resolution when it crosses Capitol Hill.
House Republicans, on the other hand, seem determined to give phone and cable companies a degree of power over our Internet that is unprecedented in the history of

Hi there, business or important person! I couldn’t help but notice that your social media sucks! Here are six reasons why:
1. You Still Think It’s a Novelty
Hey, cool! Your coffee shop is on Twitter! Facebook! And YouTube!
And… that’s it. Sorry, but your mere presence on these platforms doesn’t put you ahead of the

Lose It! for the web and iPhone make it easy to track your food and exercise
Twitter, Facebook and a website/iPhone app called Lose It! are helping me lose weight. I’m not about to write a diet book, but if I were, I think I’d call it the Social Media Diet (though “Twitter Diet” might be more marketable.)
Three weeks ago, I started measuring all the calories I’m consuming and burning and am posting my progress on Twitter, Facebook and at NoBellyPrize.com. I’m even using a $159 electronic scale from Withings that automatically tweets my weight every time I step on it.
The mere act of posting doesn’t cause me to lose weight — the social commitment of being public about it certainly does. I’m not sure if it’s the positive feedback from friends or the fear of public shaming, but it

Her avatar is a blond bombshell. Not that my cousin isn’t cute. But her avatar in Second Life is her fantasy self — the one who is busty, blond, who can fly — and more importantly perhaps, can walk. My cousin Michele can’t use her legs like the majority of

Each year I come away from the TED Conference with a thought that helps me tie together the diverse ideas, concepts, and people that make up this extraordinary week. This year – the theme of TED for me was a web. Not ‘The Web’, but the concept of a connected community.
It began, strangely enough, with the main stage presentation of Janet Echelman – a sculptor who’s been working for the past twenty years in netting. Watching her images of large, billowing, interconnected woven thread, I found myself taken by the idea of how tiny knots could turn rope into

Libya’s nationwide Internet blackout is entering its second full day. From a technical standpoint, it’s clear that this is a very different strategy than the one used by Egypt in the last days of the Mubarak regime. The ultimate outcome is probably going to be the same. Let’s take a few minutes to compare the two, and think about the implications for future Internet engagements in the Jasmine

Thank you to Ina Fried of All Things Digital for pointing out that Friday is the start of National Day of Unplugging. Like the Jewish Sabbath, it goes from sundown Friday March 4th to sundown Saturday the 5th.
On this day, people across America are supposed to “reclaim time, slow down their lives and reconnect with friends, family, the community and themselves.”
Forget it. I’m all for spending time with family and friends but some of my friends and family don’t happen to live with

With all the concerns about Facebook privacy these days, here are a few simple steps you can take to protect your privacy:
1. Don’t provide information that you don’t want to have shared with the universe. Simply put, anything you put online is easily transmitted and generally accessible. Be especially cautious about providing personal information that can be used by identity

On our final day of TEDActive 2011, we chat with Amanda Rose, founder of the Connect the Dots Foundation, about her involvement in the TEDActive Projects: Social Networks group.
What brings you to TEDActive this year?
I was lucky enough to be invited by Blackberry to attend this year’s TEDActive. Never shy to experiment, the TEDActive organizers put a collective of bright minds together into special project groups like ‘social networking’ to look at and identify micro-actions that people could take to spread their idea more effectively.
Everyone had a different approach to this topic; ranging from the analytical, emotional, philosophical and practical, but we could all agree on one thing: Don’t complicate social

A lot was made recently about Nokia and Microsoft’s new marriage of convenience, with Nokia apparently tossing in the towel on its antiquated operating systems in favor of Windows 7. The reception to this news has been tepid, with many noting that two players who have so far failed at the smartphone game had no choice but to hook up. This is probably best epitomized by Google’s Vic Gundotra’s tweet that “Two turkeys do not make an eagle.” In sports, this partnership reminds me of Gary Payton and Karl Malone leaving familiar roots and joining the Los Angeles Lakers as a last-ditch effort to win an NBA championship. That failed, and this may

For far too long, the West Coast — primarily Silicon Valley — has held a monopoly on headline-grabbing tech entrepreneurship. The singular reign of the Valley, however, may soon be eroding, thanks to the efforts of a vibrant, young, and visionary coalition of technologists and investors in and around the nation’s capital.
The pace at which Washington, D.C. is evolving into a capital for reasons other than politics is astounding. My own Google Calendar is constantly being populated with new tech happy hours, networking events, developer conferences and incubator pitch

In the last couple of weeks, the tech industry has seen a growing trend, actually more of a “surge,” of Android-based devices take center stage. The increasing popularity of Google-OS based gadgets has analysts betting on the here-and-now Apple killer that is Android. But just when you thought the Android tidal wave was set to wash over the technology horizon, here comes Steve Jobs with the iPad 2.
The iPad 2, recently demonstrated by a thinner-yet-more-enthusiastic Jobs at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center, highlighted the lively new features of the next-gen device. Riding the the coattail success of the first Apple tablet, the iPad 2 brings more ammo to the digital

When Sylvia Turner saw a Facebook friend’s status boast that he had received a free iPad and she could too, she couldn’t resist clicking on the link in hopes of receiving the gadget she coveted most. Assuming the website needed her address and phone number to ship the item, she gladly provided her personal information. For the next several weeks she was bombarded with calls from telemarketers and she had to opt out each time a new one rang. What she and others who are seduced by these false ads eventually learn is the so-called gratis Apple device is in fact an online coupon scam.
“I can’t believe I fell for that,” said Turner, a college graduate professional who often shops online.
Although Turner provided her email address, mailing address and telephone number she says she never fulfilled the eligibility requirements of purchasing products over a period of time that would have allowed her to receive the “free”

Immediately after Jobs finished announcing the iPad 2, I had a few minutes to play with one and I’m impressed. It’s thinner, lighter and faster and with two cameras it’s the first practical mobile device for shooting, editing and posting video.
The new iPad, which will ship on March 11 is 1/3 thinner and now is 1.3 pounds down from 1.5 pounds.Black and white versions, shipping white from day one. Models work with Verizon and AT&T 3G from day one.
Jobs also announced a “smart cover’ that attaches to the device via

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San Francisco: Steve Jobs is on stage at the Apple event in San Francisco talking about Apples success in true form. He said that Apple just shipped its 100 millions iPhone. Said that everyone of our “post-PC products” has been a blockbuster.
Jobs said that there are now 65,000 apps specifically tailored f.”or the

1. See what your profile looks like to other people by Previewing Your Profile.
Ever wonder what your Profile looks like to one of your friends? Their view won’t always be the same as yours depending on various privacy settings. To see what they see, go to your Account menu in the top right hand corner of any page. Choose Privacy Settings -> View Settings (under Connecting on Facebook) ->Preview My Profile (on the

Facebook pages are becoming increasingly video rich and an increasing number of small and large video publishers are streaming more of their videos “in-line,” meaning having their player on Facebook pages, not just providing links.Says Yahoo’s Anna Robertson, Director of Original Video & Social Media, the opportunities to stream videos on Facebook is a “huge opportunity for us.”She spoke during the Beet.TV Video Journalism Summit at the Washington Post earlier this month.Also addressing value of streaming on Facebook was Brightcove SVP Jeff Whatcott who noted that Facebook allows publishers to advertise on their players on Facebook.

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So, when you get invited to be interviewed on a national radio program, that’s a good thing. I was more than happy to talk about Curation, but little did I know that I was going to be the counter-point to an interview with Google’s Matt Cutts about search and the shift from algorithmic results to human curated content.
But, something is changing around web content. The volume of bits of data is growing wildly, and social search seems to be on the rise. So, what’s happening?
After months of whispers and smoke signals from Mountainview, Google took aim at what users and search observers have been saying for months – the quality of Google’s search results were going down.
The decision to begin to limit how so-called ‘content farms’ show up in search rankings was the third in a series of very public ‘corrections’ that the search giant has made in the past three