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From Cradle to, Well, You Know: The Creepy Factor of Facebook's Timeline

One of the quotes I always keep pinned to the side of my computer monitor is by my favorite writer, Joan Didion, from her terrific essay, “On Keeping a Notebook”:
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to...
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Microsoft boosts quarterly dividend by 25%
In the era when technology companies are stacking cash by the tens of billions, dividends are perhaps becoming a more attractive method of rewarding investors. Microsoft, at a minimum, feels so.
The company today announced a 25% increase in its dividend, ...
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The Internet, 1996-2011: Oh, how times have changed
The Internet is only partially beautiful. Much of it remains, to this day, quite ugly. Happily, this is an improvement, and the trend appears to be positive. You see, back in the day, the Internet was even uglier.
And you thought that the HuffingtonPost w...
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The difference between a leader and a primus inter pares
Most startups have a leader. A CEO type, usually the founding entrepreneur, who leads his pack of hungry wolves from concept to IPO. A driven manager, organizational wizard and decision maker.
It is a role that is important but undefined. Entrepreneurs ha...
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Bring all your friends when you are negotiating
There is a scene in Erin Brockovich where a bunch of lawyers come into an office to talk about a settlement. Erin Brockovich, played by Julia Roberts, asks the receptionist how many lawyers they brought. The answer is 4. Brockovich then gets 3 extra inter...
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Chinese video giant YouKu inks DreamWorks deal
Chinese online video giant YouKu, popularly known as ‘the Chinese YouTube’, has agreed to a deal with DreamWorks Animation that will make the Kung Fu Panda film series available through the site’s premium movie service.
According to Reut...
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webOS development holds steady despite HP’s effective surrender
HP’s planned conclusion of its webOS hardware work, and its following liquidation of TouchPad tablets, have failed to end developer interest in the platform. In fact, according to the company, it’s holding steady.
In a very ironic twist, the m...
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Massive value-focused hedge fund picks up $312 million in Microsoft stock
Microsoft’s stock price has been a problem for the company over the past decade. The reason? Nothing. That’s exactly what the stock has effectively done.
Since the first tech bubble exploded, Microsoft has been trading between $20, and $30 a s...
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Fresh analyst downgrade burdens Microsoft’s stock
Microsoft’s long languishing stock today received a fresh blow in the form of a very public downgrade by Davenport & Co. analyst F. Drake Johnstone.
Not only did Mr. Johnstone move Microsoft from a ‘buy’ to a ‘hold,’ he r...
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Big Money: The Companies with the Biggest Cash Piles in Tech
Everyone has heard the classic maxim of corporate finance, that ‘cash is king.’ One business luminary once likened cash on a corporate balance sheet to oxygen: “once the cash is gone,” he said, “everything stops.”
We co...
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Affordable smart phones to drive Africa’s Internet adoption
We’ve already covered Huawei’s $100 Android IDEOS phone, which has quickly become a 2011 smartphone bestseller in Kenya. Huawei recently partnered with Nigerian CDMA operator, Starcomms to launch the smartphone in the Nigerian market. With ove...
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Technology and altruism: Social media can bring out the best in people… but does the cause matter?
If you happened to miss the story, as a pay-it-forward social experiment, Jonathan Stark, a programmer, shared his Starbucks card online. He encouraged people to use the card to buy themselves a coffee, as well as contribute money to the card so that some...
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What HP’s PC business looks like as a standalone company
HP managed to take over the technology press today, and nearly broke the Internet, a feat that it rarely accomplishes. The company revealed strong earnings, said it is killing webOS, and strongly hinted that it is contemplating the sale of its PC division...
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Online anonymity: A gateway to freedom or abuse?
Google+ has sparked many online debates, but the one at the forefront concerns online anonymity. By forcing users to use their real names, Google+ has sprung open a worldwide discussion regarding how this affects activists. Google+ certainly isn’t t...
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Is controversy unavoidable in Middle Eastern gaming?
Gaming catering to a Middle Eastern audience has seen many new developments in the last month. A new Facebook game likened to Farmville, Jordan-based Aranim’s game Happy Oasis, racked up 100,000 users in 10 days. On the opposite side of the spectrum...
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Nigerian tech incubators set to mentor and train entrepreneurs
Two tech incubators in Nigeria, Co-creation Hub and the Institute for Venture Design are set to train Nigerian tech entrepreneurs in venture formation and entrepreneurship.
Co-creation Hub Nigeria, a non profit social enterprise founded by Bosun Tijani an...
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Jawbone's Newest Product: Health-Tracking Wristband Called Up
Jawbone, the San Francisco consumer electronics start-up that just grabbed another $70 million in funding, has announced its latest gadget called Up. The new product is described as “an intelligent, wearable wristband with an application that combin...
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Why Egypt wasn’t waiting for WikiLeaks to ignite a revolution
Ask any Egyptian how much of an influence the Internet was in the nation’s uprising, the first thing they’ll probably do is roll their eyes at you. I’ve certainly mentioned it countless times – International media found the perfect...
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Facebook and Microsoft: Best Friends Forever
As you have no doubt just heard, Facebook is releasing massive new integration with Skype to power video chat for its three-quarters of a billion users.
Of course, this should come as no real surprise to anyone, after all we have heard rumors of this sort...
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HootSuite: A software-as-a-service success story
Earlier this week, The Next Web covered HootSuite’s achievement of reaching the 2 million user milestone. Considering that the Vancouver-based company has stood the test of time while other social media and Twitter clients have either sold out or bo...
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Women only sites in the Middle East – necessity or nuisance?
In Saudi Arabia women took to the streets in a struggle to earn the basic right to drive. They bravely posted their videos on YouTube, shared their stories with international media, and five of them have since paid the price, with their arrests.
Women in ...
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Africa’s fixed broadband prices fall by over half
Fixed broadband prices in Africa have fallen by over 55% over the past two years according to a report by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU).
In the ITU report, out of the top ten countries showing the steepest decline in prices worldwide, n...
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Obvious ideas are better than original ideas
Question: What can you sit on, sleep on, and brush your teeth with?
The answer to the riddle is at the end of the post. Think about it while you read on or scroll down if you are really curious.
Some people are always looking for great ideas.
Original i...
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The rise of Major League Gaming and the future of esports
Esports. The idea itself is almost laughable to many: “Esports? What is that, nerds in a closet trying to beat each other at Tetris? They should go outside and get a tan, right guys?”
Put the Bud Light down and listen to me: There was once a time when esp...
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Does Creative Commons make us more creative?
The photo accompanying this article has nothing to do with the actual written content. Sort of. It’s a photo that I came across on Flickr, taken by Ben Fredericson, and being a sucker for bokeh I saved it on my computer.
The photo was posted on Flic...
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Why Turntable.fm is the most exciting social service of the year
It’s emerged out of nowhere to become one of the coolest sites on the Web in a matter of weeks, but what’s the story behind Turntable.fm, what’s so great about it and where is it going?
A service amassing a reported 140,000 users in its ...
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Looking for success on the Android Market? Release an iOS app first.
Android developer David has been blogging about his efforts to make money on the Android Market at his blog, Making Money with Android. In a recent post, David summed up his first month on the Android Market with his ad-supported casual game Tap That! Num...
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Does the Middle East need a curated web?
Some might argue that Middle Eastern culture, with its more conservative approach simply does not lend itself to the vast openness that is the World Wide Web. Examples exist of social networks, websites and online communities that aim to provide not only ...
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Internet access in Nigeria set to triple by 2013
Internet access in Nigeria is set to triple in the next two years, Reuters reports. According to Funke Opeke, C.E.O. of the Main One Cable Company, a leading West African submarine cable company which has laid a 7,000 km fibre optic cable linking West Afr...
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Putting Facebook’s rumored $100 billion IPO in perspective
Remember that overplayed line from The Social Network that went something like: “a million dollars isn’t cool – you know what is? A billion dollars.” Well, as it turns out, a single billion is now chump change for Facebook, as they...
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Nokia still dominant in Africa, accounts for 61% of mobile ad impressions
Mobile advertising firm, InMobi has an interesting recent report on mobile advertising in Africa. The report reveals current trends and industry drivers shaping the continent’s evolving mobile ad space.
In terms of devices, Nokia remains the contine...
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Tech Stock Showdown: Titans vs. the Young Guns
Warning: This post does not constitute investment, legal, or any other sort of advice. Do not use the information or anything else contained in this post to make any decision. TNW is not your financial adviser. This post is a short meditation on the curre...
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Middle East governments struggle with being social
Since international media has struggled to slap the convenient label of the Facebook Revolution on the Egyptian uprising, it seems that Middle Eastern governments have been the first ones to sit up and take notice of the name. Fittingly, the Egyptian Supr...
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Why it would be good if Color failed
I have great respect and admiration for all entrepreneurs out there including the Color founders. I have seen the videos and read the interviews. In theory, Color sounds cool, its founders seem to be knowing what they are talking about and those investors...
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UAE and Qatar top the list of Twitter users in the Middle East
The Dubai School of Government havs released its second issue on Arab Social Media, shedding light on some much needed statistics when it comes to Arab users on Twitter. The latest study looks at the impact of Facebook and Twitter on civil movements in th...
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A second-hand market for patents is patently absurd
It’s amazing the amount of time and money wasted in the world of tech over completely pointless things. One of the best examples of this is patent rights.
Now, patents themselves are great things. They reward inventors by giving them an exclusive ru...
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Video: Om Talks About $6 Million Giga-Funding
Yesterday, I slogged through the rain to the downtown San Francisco HQ of the GigaOM Network to visit with tech blogging pioneer Om Malik.
He just got $6 million more in funding, bringing the total for the tech new and research company to $15 million. Ree...
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My trip abroad with data cost saving app Onavo
Since TNW2011 I have traveled to Spain and Germany so I had a good opportunity to test the app. For those who don’t know what Onavo is: it is an iPhone app that compresses your data and saves you up to 90% on your data roaming costs.
Halfway Onavo&#...
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What will define the next phase of mobile advertising?
Global mobile ad network InMobi recently published an interesting report on global trends in the mobile advertising space. You can find a copy of it here. In the report, the company predicts that emerging economies will define the next phase of mobile adv...
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Nigeria’s movie industry goes digital
Nigeria’s movie industry, Nollywood, the world’s second largest film producer after India’s Bollywood is set to go digital following an exclusive content partnership between Nigerian firm, Iroko Partners and Nigerian movie producers.
Und...
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AOL attempts to resurrect itself as the oldest startup in silicon valley
It’s a three story glass and steel building, similar to a dozen others that line Page Mill Road in the heart of Silicon Valley. It could be HP, which is next door or any one of the established offices of world spanning tech companies that make their...
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Your photos? Not so according to many popular photo-sharing apps
As is so often the case with many companies now, lawsuits and consumer outrage result in a reversal of course (Facebook, Google, Apple, etc.), or clarification of position (Facebook, Google, Apple, etc.) to quell the stemming tide of the masses.
Today it ...
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Joseph Robert Lewis: With Digital Publishing, There’s Room for Everyone
Joseph Robert Lewis is a writer. He’s not your local Starbucks writer in hipster clothes, staring lovingly at his Macbook Pro and failing to break 100 words a day. He’s a professional.
His experience includes years of writing and editing in th...
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Facebook updates Ad Analytics with improved social data
Facebook is in the process of rolling out changes to their advertising analytics tool, with some users seeing new data on ad reach, average frequency and target funnel statistics. Essentially, Facebook are introducing new performance indicators centered a...
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Facebook’s explosive growth in Africa
According to Alexa statistics, Facebook is the number one or number two most visited site in most African countries. The social networking site has been witnessing high growth rates on the continent and so it is not surprising that Africa is Facebook’s fa...
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Content control in the Age of AOL
This post is a designed meditation on publications that are strictly digital, and their future under the new reality of agglomeration through acquisition.
Yes, the great landscape of blogs and digital media is a-changin,’ and there is no more conspi...
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The Nintendo Game Drought Means One Thing: Get Ready for Wii 2 [Analysis]






You're feeling it, we're feeling it: there appears to be a veritable drought of 1st-party Nintendo titles this spring. None, to be exact. More »






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How Local News is Going Mobile, Illustrated
Column Five Media’s latest infographic looks at how local news is going mobile, subtitled “Could the iPad be the New Sunday Press?” I know that I use my iPad as my reading device for everything from news to books, and before I had the iP...
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Big Data Analysis at BackType
Big Data Analysis at BackType: RWW has a nice post diving into the data flow and the tools used by BackType, a company with only 3 engineers, to deal and analyze large amounts of data.

They’ve invented their own language, Cascalog, to make analysis easy,...
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D: Dive Into Mobile: The Full Interview Video of Foursquare's Dennis Crowley
As promised, All Things Digital will be publishing the full videos of the interviews we did last week at our D: Dive Into Mobile conference in San Francisco.
The first extension of the event, it produced some very newsy sessions. We’ll be posting th...
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