Nick Wingfield / Wall Street Journal:
Forbidden Fruit: Microsoft Workers Hide Their iPhones — Steve Ballmer Sours on Apple Product; Work for Ford, Drive a Ford — REDMOND, Wash.—Microsoft Corp. employees are passionate users of the latest tech toys. But there is one gadget love that many at the company dare not name: the iPhone.
Forbidden Fruit: Microsoft Workers Hide Their iPhones (Nick Wingfield/Wall Street Journal)
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Gowalla Tops Foursquare at SXSW Web Awards (But Benson Smokes ‘em All) (Michael Calore/Underwire)
March 14th, 2010 by
Michael Calore / Underwire:
Gowalla Tops Foursquare at SXSW Web Awards (But Benson Smokes ‘em All) — Comedian Doug Benson, left, and a representative of TheyMakeApps, the winner of the Business category, discuss the finer points of being French during the SXSW Web Awards. — AUSTIN, Texas — Providing further proof …
Venezuela’s Chavez calls for internet controls (Eyanir Chinea/Reuters)
March 14th, 2010 by
Eyanir Chinea / Reuters:
Venezuela’s Chavez calls for internet controls — (Reuters) - Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez, who is criticized by media freedom groups, called on Saturday for regulation of the Internet and singled out a website that he said falsely reported the murder of one of his ministers.
China Issues Warning to Google’s Partners (Sharon LaFraniere/New York Times)
March 14th, 2010 by
Sharon LaFraniere / New York Times:
China Issues Warning to Google’s Partners — BEIJING — The Chinese authorities have warned major partners of Google’s China-based search engine that they must comply with censorship laws even if Google does not, an industry expert with knowledge of the notice said Sunday.
Google May Start Pre-Testing New Buzz Features With Users (Jason Kincaid/TechCrunch)
March 14th, 2010 by
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:
Google May Start Pre-Testing New Buzz Features With Users — This afternoon at SXSW, a panel of Gmail and Google Buzz team members took part in a panel where they discussed what goes on behind the scenes at Gmail. The panel covered a smattering of topics, covering everything from Gmail stickers …
“Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity” (danah boyd)
March 14th, 2010 by
danah boyd:
“Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity” — [This is a rough unedited crib of the actual talk] — Citation: boyd, danah. 2010. “Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity.” SXSW. Austin, Texas, March 13. — Good afternoon! — Let me begin by saying that I’m tremendously honored to be here doing the welcoming keynote at SXSW.
OMGConan: The big Digg party Twitter hoax (Daniel Terdiman/CNET News)
March 14th, 2010 by
Daniel Terdiman / CNET News:
OMGConan: The big Digg party Twitter hoax — On Saturday night, Twitter rang out with news that Conan O’Brien was joining Internet TV network Revision3. The only problem? It was a huge hoax. — AUSTIN, Texas—Did you hear that Conan O’Brien, fresh off his ugly divorce with NBC …
Facebook Firehose May Be Released at Developer Conference F8 (Marshall Kirkpatrick/ReadWriteWeb)
March 14th, 2010 by
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Facebook Firehose May Be Released at Developer Conference F8 — Facebook plans to announce the availability of a firehose of user data at its F8 developers conference in April, we believe based on research. Such an offering could be similar to the firehose that Twitter has shared …
New Version of Digg Revealed (Ben Parr/Mashable!)
March 14th, 2010 by
Ben Parr / Mashable!:
New Version of Digg Revealed — At the “Bigg Digg Shindigg” event at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference (SXSWi), Digg CEO Jay Adelson revealed that the popular social bookmarking site is getting a major overhaul, teasing the audience about new features such as personalized feeds and the return of the Digg leaderboard.
iPad Pre-Orders: For Idiots Only (Galen Gruman/PC World)
March 13th, 2010 by
Galen Gruman / PC World:
iPad Pre-Orders: For Idiots Only — Apple started taking early orders yesterday for its tablet, even though no one’s really sure what they’re buying. — Recommends — Friday morning, the fool’s parade started. Apple is taking online “pre-orders” for its iPad tablet, which is supposed to begin shipping on April 3.






