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Link: Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world domination. It’s time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed.

Link: One More Time: No NDAs In case you missed all of those, here’s a couple quick reasons I will probably decline to sign your NDA

I know that phishing – using clever fakes to trick the unsuspecting into revealing their passwords – is a real problem, with real victims. But I just assumed that phishing was someone else’s problem. Or so I thought, until I got phished last week. Locus Online Perspectives » Cory Doctorow: Persistence Pays Parasites

For anyone still wondering whether Apple plans to give its new iAds a competitive advantage over other mobile ad networks on the iPhone and iPad, just take a look at the slide above (via Scoop: Apple Is Pushing A Secret “VIP” Ad Program For iPhone Apps)

Link: Former Microsoft Windows exec to lead HP software business Hewlett-Packard’s hiring of former Windows executive Bill Veghte, announced today, is another example of the computer maker’s potential to compete with its longtime partner, Microsoft, in the software business. The 20-year Microsoft veteran will lead HP’s software and services unit in his new role as […]

Link: Skype Promises Super-Cheap Subscriptions, Group Video Chat Skype Wednesday confirmed new monthly call subscription plans that, according to Skype, bring down the costs of Skype-enabled Internet calls even further. In addition, according to one report, Skype has a long-sought group video chat function in the works that it plans to test as a public […]

Second IE9 Platform Preview Available for Developers

Using Google today, you may have noticed that something feels slightly different — the look and feel of our search results have changed! Today’s metamorphosis responds to the increasing richness of the web and the increasing power of search — revealing search tools on the left and updating the visual look and feel throughout. While […]

The True Facts about Bottled Water that Science doesn’t want you to know |

Link: Intel shows off first Light Peak laptop Intel has provided the first hands-on demonstration of a laptop running its Light Peak technology, at the company’s inaugural European research showcase here in Brussels. Light Peak is an optical interconnect that can transfer data at 10Gbits/sec in both directions. Intel hopes Light Peak will one day […]