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What I’m reading and finding for February 16th 2012 through February 21st 2012:

• From Twitter – Why I’ve Switched from Browser-Based Apps Back to Native Software on the Desktop – Tested http://t.co/ekRHYz6L
• From Twitter – Canonical Unveils Deeply Integrated Ubuntu For Android, Mixes Phones With Desktops http://t.co/nIC7SVuo
• How Forbes Stole A New York Times Article And Got All The Traffic-
  nickoneill.com
  

  All it took was a compelling title: ‘How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did’
• From Twitter – Settlement reached in iPhone 4 ‘antennagate’ case, every US customer gets $15 or a bumper http://t.co/V5pfyo5A
• Retailers Shut Facebook Storefonts Amid Apathy – Bloomberg-
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  Last April, Gamestop Corp. opened a store on Facebook to generate sales among the 3.5 million-plus customers who’d declared themselves “fans” of the video game retailer. Six months later, the store was quietly shuttered.
• How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did – Forbes-
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  Target has perfected the technique of analyzing consumers’ shopping habits to figure out who’s pregnant. How can they send customers congratulatory coupons without freaking them out?
• From Twitter – Microsoft launches msnNOW, tracking trends using data from Facebook, Twitter, Bing http://t.co/Kf14CVvL
• Twitter stores full iPhone contact list for 18 months, after scan – latimes.com-
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What I’m reading and finding for January 2nd 2012 through January 5th 2012:

• From Twitter – Give your Android device instant access to all your Wi-Fi spots | TechRepublic http://t.co/HjZbEHcA
• From Twitter – http://t.co/lNDYy0nh Microsoft Secures Patent for Game Console DVRs
• IFTTT, A Glue Gun For Sticking The Web Together, Raises $1.5M Seed Round From Top Investors | TechCrunch-
  techcrunch.com
  - Eric Eldon
  

  Want to instantly save all your Instagram photos to Dropbox when you take them? What about automatically updating your Twitter profile when you update your Facebook profile? Or, what about sharing any article you read in Read It Later to Twitter and Facebook, staggered by time via Buffer? A small bootstrapped startup called If This Then That has abstracted a simple set of tools to help you do each of these things, and many more.
  And now it’s raised a big seed round of more than $1.5 million from  show all text
• Nobody Goes to Facebook Anymore. It’s Too Crowded. « Uncrunched-
  uncrunched.com
  - Michael Arrington
  

  A year ago Steven Levy suggested that Facebook should give us each a single “friend-list do-over.”
  A lot of commenters challenged him. “Grow some balls and just unfriend people,” said one of the more even tempered readers. Another – “These comments are too constructive. Someone should just call this guy an idiot.”
  Steven probably didn’t see that criticism coming, because he probably assumed people understand how difficult it is to unfriend people on Facebook at any sort of scale. You have to fi…  show all text
• Google’s Jaw-Dropping Sponsored Post Campaign For Chrome-
  searchengineland.com
  - Danny Sullivan
  

  Google, the company that has been fighting against paid links and “thin” content, seems to be behind a campaign that’s generating both on behalf of its Chrome browser. File this under “what were they thinking.” “This Post Sponsored By Google” Aaron Wall… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
• Code Year-
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What I’m reading and finding for July 12th 2011 through July 14th 2011:

• The Problem With Silicon Valley Is Itself – TNW Entrepreneur-
  thenextweb.com
  - Hermione Way
  

  As a Brit who gave up cheerleading the European tech scene to make the pilgrimage to Silicon Valley to live, eat and breath the world’s leading hub for technology startup innovation, I’ve been largely unimpressed and disappointed by the quality of startups here.
  Living in San Francisco since January, I’ve interviewed around two hundred startups and there’s only two, out of two hundred, I think are game changers. Now, don’t get me wrong, Silicon Valley is an incredibly inspiring place to be. Eve…  show all text
• Make the Google +1 Button Load Faster – Tip for developers.
• InfoGraphics-
  visual.ly
• A Beginner’s Guide to Google Analytics 5 -
• Dropbox Raising Massive Round at a $5B-Plus Valuation | TechCrunch-
  techcrunch.com
  - Sarah Lacy
  We’ve heard from multiple sources that Dropbox is finally moving on raising its next venture round and it’s a whopper. They’ve had preliminary conversations with several investors, several solid offers they’ve passed on earlier this year and are meeting with investment banks to handle the offering now. Allen & Co. is said to be in the mix, but we’ve also heard nothing has been finalized.
  The real news are the numbers we’re hearing from multiple sources close to the company. Dropbox is looking to  show all text
• Digg Raises An Inside Venture Round | TechCrunch-
  techcrunch.com
  - Michael Arrington
  Digg has raised a new round of financing, we’ve confirmed. It’s an inside round, meaning one or more existing investors put in the money.
  We’ve heard the amount raised was single digit millions, probably around $5 million. CEO Matt Williams has confirmed the financing to us, but won’t give an exact number on the amount raised.
  The real question is around the terms of the deal. Digg’s last round in 2008 valued the company at $150 million post money. But that was a long time ago, and Digg’s influ…  show all text
• Cloud.com | Open Source Cloud Computing-
  cloud.com
  Cloud.com is now part of Citrix Systems a leading provider of virtual computing solutions that help people work and play from anywhere on any device.