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Friday, 29th April 2011

Facebook's Response to Page Takedowns

Yesterday we reported on a problem that was affecting several Facebook page owners - due to a loophole in Facebook's process for handling DMCA takedown requests, anyone with an ax to grind and a fake email address could take down any Facebook page by filling out an online form with false information, claiming copyright infringement. Facebook…

Social Sarah Perez comments

Twitter Hits 200m

The number of people who have registered accounts on Twitter has now surpassed 200 million, a representative of the company said publicly yesterday. Katie Stanton, Twitter's VP of International Strategy, said at the Guardian Activate conference in New York that there are now more than 200 million Twitter accounts worldwide and more than 70% of all…

Social Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Cloud Computing

Poll: Is OpenStack Now More Attractive Following the Amazon Web Services Outage?

The OpenStack Conference and Design Summit is happening this week. The group assembling represents a community that in less than a year has attracted a worldwide developer group and enough influence to attract organizations such as Canonical, Citrix and Cisco. These are partners which are now contributing to the effort to build an infrastructure…

Alex Williams comments

Poll: Kill Your Free App?

In a long and detailed blog post, Marco Arment, creator of the popular "read later" application Instapaper explained why he decided to kill off the app's free version. According to Arment, his decision was due to the "significant costs in development and support," "the undesirable customers" the free version attracted, the low conversion rates from…

Mobile Sarah Perez comments

Square to Encrypt Dongles

In the startup world, with new money comes new obligations. The leaders at mobile payment startup Square, being well-establish entrepreneurs, know this well. Yet, they cannot be excited about requirements coming from Visa after the credit card giant made a strategic investment in the company earlier this week. Visa released a new "best…

Mobile Dan Rowinski comments

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