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Google Buzz, which stumbled out of the gate due to privacy concerns, has made up for lost time by adding an average of a feature every week, says product manager Todd Jackson. The newest feature to be rolled out is a “reshare” button for the service. Read more »

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As Google tries to extricate itself from the privacy furor over personal data collected from Wi-Fi networks by its Street View cars, the company says it has hit a roadblock that prevents it from complying with authorities who want the data turned over to them. Read more »

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Managing what is said about them online has become “a defining feature of online life for many internet users, especially the young,” according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Younger users also tend to be less trusting of content-hosting sites. Read more »

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Has Facebook failed to evolve along with the core of its user base, and could that spell doom for the social network? In a blog post at the Harvard Business Review site, professor Bruce Nussbaum argues that it has, and it could. But is he right? Read more »

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Newspapers may not be known for being digital visionaries, but the British newspaper The Guardian is doing something pretty revolutionary: by launching its Open Platform, the company has completely rethought the fundamental nature of its business, and the way that it thinks about value creation online. Read more »

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According to Google, the company’s search and advertising businesses helped generate an estimated $54 billion in economic value for the U.S. last year, an estimate that’s clearly an attempt to promote the company’s value at a time when it’s coming under fire from legislators. Read more »

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BroadVision, an enterprise software company that went public not long after Netscape and then spent almost a decade recovering from the Web 1.0 boom and bust, is launching a new SaaS offering called Clearvale, which it says is designed to bring social networking into the enterprise. Read more »

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The Guardian isn’t the tech-savvy enterprise one would normally look to for guidance on digital issues or Internet-related topics. But the 190-year-old newspaper company is doing something revolutionary with its business, and it’s worth looking at what that is and what lessons other companies might be ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »

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Yahoo has announced two new partnerships, including one involving its online personals — which will be taken over by Match.com — and a mobile mapping and email deal with Nokia. But like several similar announcements by the company recently, they seem like too little, too late. Read more »

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apologized for the way the company has handled its users’ privacy, admitting that the company “moved too fast” in trying to give people new ways to connect with each other. He said Facebook would soon be introducing simplified controls for privacy. Read more »

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PayPal doesn’t just want to be in your mobile phone, or behind the transfer of virtual goods in social networks, according to President Scott Thompson. He sees the company becoming the default payment engine for your television, your car, your DVD player and even your fridge. Read more »

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The controversy over Facebook’s transmission of user ID info through a page’s URL is another sign that the social network’s handling of privacy has become such a hot-button issue that virtually any behavior, no matter how small or accidental, will be used as ammunition against it. Read more »

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In an interview with Fox Business Network, Eric Schmidt said Google TV is about “building a platform with millions of people using these technologies” and that thanks to the ability to target advertising, ads on the new Google service “should be worth a lot of money.” Read more »

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The controversy over Google’s collection of personal data via its Street View program continues to grow, but the company seems to be reluctant to acknowledge the full importance of the lapse, saying no harm was done. Meanwhile, the company faces a class-action lawsuit over the practice. Read more »

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The Guardian newspaper in Britain, which has been providing access to its content through its Open Platform project for a little over a year on an experimental basis, says the project is now “open for business” and that it wants to partner with developers and companies. Read more »

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While newspapers like the New York Times are putting up paywalls, The Guardian in Britain is not only giving its content away to readers but to developers, too, through its open API. Developer Chris Thorpe says the idea is to turn the paper into a platform. Read more »

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Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales says despite reports to the contrary, he is not stepping down or reducing his role with the user-generated encyclopedia. However, he has given up some editing privileges after a disagreement over the removal of images that Wikipedia critics say depict child pornography. Read more »

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The e-book industry is dominated by Amazon and Apple, but the game will change later when Google launches its online e-book service, Google Editions. The company will allow users to download books in multiple ways, opening another front in the ongoing war of Open vs. Closed. Read more »

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The major stock markets’ massive plunge on Thursday rattled investors, obliterating almost a trillion dollars in value at one point. But did it get the attention of the Silicon Valley bulls waiting for their favorite startups to IPO? Or will they dismiss it as a glitch? Read more »

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BookRenter.com, a textbook rental service for students, has landed a big fish for its board: the startup said today that Netflix co-founder and former CEO Mark Randolph has joined as a director. BookRenter called the addition of Randolph an endorsement of its Netflix-style service for textbooks. Read more »

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Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle announced that the non-profit has launched a new service to provide more than a million books in a specially designed format that can be read by visually impaired readers. The new service is part of the Archive’s Open Library project. Read more »

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Canadian legislators plan to introduce restrictive new copyright legislation, possibly as soon as next month, according to copyright expert Michael Geist. It would come three years after another proposed copyright bill was withdrawn in the face of criticism that it was too restrictive. Read more »

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Google is rolling out a new look for its search pages. The biggest difference is a new left-hand navigation menu that appears by default, with colorful icons for different categories. The menu also displays only the sub-categories and related search tools that Google believes are relevant. Read more »

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Silicon Valley venture firm Sequoia Capital has bought a stake in Klarna AB, a European payments provider, and Sequoia partner Michael Moritz has joined the company’s board. The amount has not been disclosed, but Sequoia will become the single largest shareholder of the Swedish company. Read more »

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Two Congressmen have proposed a sweeping bill to govern online privacy that would require companies to provide clear notices of what information is being collected by either their site or service or a third-party ad network, and would allow users to opt out from such services. Read more »

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Federal authorities are widely believed to be considering an antitrust inquiry of some kind into Apple’s practices regarding development of apps for the iPhone and iPad, with the FTC and the Justice Department discussing a complaint reportedly made by Adobe over Apple’s restrictions on developers. Read more »

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One of the founders of Bootup Labs, an incubator that was forced to restructure after failing to raise as much money as it had promised, has said he is leaving the company. Former NowPublic CEO Leonard Brody is also joining the fund in an advisory role. Read more »

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak tells Fox Business that the company has sold more than a million iPads because the product is so well-engineered and designed, and that consumers have developed a trust in Apple products that goes beyond the company’s traditional fan base. Read more »

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Local news aggregator Topix has rolled out a suite of new features, including a new Twitter service that sends local news to users based on their location, as well as the integration of Facebook’s social plugins on topic pages, and a doubling of the news content. Read more »

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Chris Kelly, the former chief privacy officer for Facebook and now a candidate for Attorney General of California, has publicly distanced himself from the social network over its new features, saying he believes that the company should not automatically “opt in” users to new information-sharing services. Read more »

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Amazon has launched a new feature for the Kindle that shows the most highlighted passages in its e-books, using data collected from individual users of the device. While some readers seem to like the feature, others see it as a little too Big Brother-ish and creepy. Read more »

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Is there a tablet in Google’s future with a 3-D, multitouch interface? Some think there could be, since it just acquired BumpTop, whose software creates a 3D environment where users can toss their file icons around, stack them in piles and “hang” them on walls. Read more »

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Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has been taking a lot of flak for saying in an interview with the BBC that Google needs to diversify its business, because it is still “99.9 percent search.” But you know what? She’s right. The search giant does need to diversify. Read more »

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Opera, the Norwegian browser company that is a perennial runner-up to larger players such as Internet Explorer and Firefox, has bought Australian web-mail company FastMail.fm for an undisclosed sum. Opera says it wants to expand its email service to mobile devices and even interactive televisions. Read more »

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says that he believes the benefits of taking an open approach to content outweigh the disadvantages, and says that something as large and influential as Wikipedia has become could never have been built unless the process was open to anyone to contribute. Read more »

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Taking a cue from Foursquare, the Huffington Post has launched a new feature that awards “badges” to regular readers of the news site, based on how much they connect with other readers and also whether they link their HuffPo accounts with other sites such as Facebook. Read more »

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