Steve Chen, co-founder of the wildly successful video sharing site YouTube, sold the site to Google in October 2006 for $1.65 billion. No doubt he’s since internalized Google’s “Don’t be evil” ideology, at least as a talking point
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YouTube founder pushed for growth “through whatever tactics, however evil”
San Franciscans complain that Burning Man used to be better. New Yorkers claim that everything used to be better.
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SXSW wrap-up: Maybe it really does suck now
Performance monitoring service Gomez has released its annual list of major websites with the best overall responsiveness as measured by Gomez over the entire year 2009. Surprise winner: IRS.gov , a site that uses images sparingly and pushes off large documents to PDF format for downloading, rather than trying to serve them as Web pages.
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Fastest site on the Web: The IRS?
Google has limited app discovery in its Android Market store to Android-powered devices. That makes it hard for people who don’t own a phone, or who want something faster and bigger than a Droid screen, to search for and learn about apps. AppStoreHQ has solved the problem with a browser-based Android directory at AppStoreHQ.com/android-apps .
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Now you can shop for Android apps without Android
Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek dodged questions on when the music streaming service would come to the U.S. and instead talked up the next generation of the company’s technology at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin today.
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek dodges questions on U.S. launch
Spotify chief executive Daniel Ek dodged questions on when the music streaming service would come to the U.S. and instead talked up the next generation of the company’s technology at the South by Southwest Interactive conference in Austin today. The service, which launched in 2008, now has 7 million users across countries like the U.K., Sweden and France.
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Spotify CEO Daniel Ek dodges questions on U.S. launch
The value of Twitter when it comes to breaking news and eyewitness reports has been discussed as length (evidenced by CNN’s race to get the most followers, and the buzz surrounding the site’s role in the Iran protests last year), but its impact on the news and media may be overestimated. According to traffic monitoring service Hitwise , Twitter doesn’t even come close to Google News and Facebook when it comes to where people actually get their news
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Hitwise: People get their news from Facebook and Google — not Twitter
Until now, people using Google’s Nexus One smartphone with AT&T service have only been able to access the carrier’s slower 2G or EDGE networks. But today, Google announced a new version of the phone that is compatible with AT&T’s 3G network, boosting speeds to stem consumer complaints. The new version is also compatible with Rogers Wireless’ 3G network in Canada
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Nexus One speeds up on AT&T’s 3G network
