Web curation for August 26th 2010 through August 27th 2010
Filtering the web so you don’t have to for August 26th 2010 through August 27th 2010:
- SXSW 2011 PanelPicker – A Conversation About Social Change Through Social Media –
- Brush Fire Fought Near Grossmont College – San Diego 6 –
- Google Code Blog: An update on JavaOne –
Like many of you, every year we look forward to the workshops, conferences and events related to open source software. In our view, these are among the best ways we can engage the community, by sharing our experiences and learning from yours. So we’re sad to announce that we won't be able to present at JavaOne this year. We wish that we could, but Oracle’s recent lawsuit against Google and open source has made it impossible for us to freely share our thoughts about the future of Jav.. show all text
- Google Buys Angstro As It Furthers Social Strategy –
Google has just bought TechCrunch50 startup Angstro according to a post on the company’s site. The company’s founder, entrepreneur Rohit Khare, has joined Google to work on the company’s social networking product Google Me, according to an L.A. Times report.
Angstro launched in 2008 as a newspaper for people in your professional network. The site skimmed through content across blogs, news sites, and a number of other sources to look for material that is related to the people y.. show all text - Google buys Angstro and hires founder to help build social networking service | Technology | Los Angeles Times –
Highly respected entrepreneur and Internet researcher Rohit Khare has sold his company Angstro to Google and taken a job at the Internet giant to help build its social networking product Google Me.
He is sitting near Slide’s Max Levchin, who was also recently hired to help lead the effort to counter the exploding popularity of Facebook. Khare made the announcement that he had shut down Angstro and joined Google in a note on his company’s website. Khare has created a number of produ.. show all text - From Twitter – RT @Lifehacker How to Run Windows, Mac, and Linux Side by Side and Pain-Free with VirtualBox http://bit.ly/cuw5X5
- Inside look at Pentagon’s cyberdefense strategy: The battlefield beyond bad flash drives – Our nation faces risks far greater than a rogue flash drive: Failure to properly safeguard our consumer and industry systems.
- PandaLabs: A Quarter of Worms Spread through USB Devices –
- From Twitter – RT @TheNextWeb Mophie & Intuit partner up to take on Square with mobile payments http://tnw.to/16l2F by @jffcrmron @TNWapple
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