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WTF? Where is Zuck? And Facebook IPO Friday (NYT)

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Here is an excellent piece in the Saturday and Sunday editions of The New York Times on young Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg this week. The story opens on the eve of what might be, according to The Times, not just the largest IPO in tech history but also a fundamental cultural shift.

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Mother’s Day 2012: Not Yo Mama’s Mama

Mother’s Day 2012 is this Sunday, May 13. Great infographic. Infographic credit: iexposure.com

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Trey Ratcliff: San Francisco Before Sunrise, Photo of the Day

This was shot with my Nikon D3X. Before I started going to the main location, my friend Tom and I pulled over to the side of the road in Sausalito to get this picture.  The water was too blue and the colors were too interesting to drive on by.  We wanted to be quick  . . . so we didn’t miss the sun peaking over the horizon at the main location. It’s Trey Ratcliff’s photo of the day, which we feature daily at anewdomain.net. Find all his daily photos at his excellent site, stuckincustoms.com

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Yahoo, Skype, OMGpop: This Week in Tech (TWiT) with Leo Laporte

It’s This Week in Tech. Leo Laporte, John C. Dvorak, Brian Brushwood and Mike Elgan join in. The guys talk about Discovery’s acquisition of Revision3, Yahoo CEO’s resume fudge, Note hotcakes, OMGpops, tapping Skype, email stress, FPSTD and more. It’s TWiT 352 for May 6, 2012.

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Eduardo Saverin: Facebook’s Other Founder, Squeezed Out, Worth $2B and Renounces U.S. Citizenship

Eduardo Saverin, shown above, is Mark Zuckerberg’s “jilted” cofounder. But he sure looks like a happy guy on his Facebook page today. The Facebook IPO pricing details, announced this week, make him worth $2 billion.

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Self-Propelled Flying Object Video: John C. Dvorak X3

It’s our John C. Dvorak X3 and the video of the week: it shows a self-propelled flying object. Check this video out — hosts John C. Dvorak, Andrew Eisner and Joe Engo on today’s episode of John C. Dvorak X3. One topic, three pundits, two minutes. More or less.

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Apple, Amazon, Klout and CISPA: TWiT with Leo Laporte

It’s This Week in Tech. Becky Worley fills in for Leo this week, and two of our editors, John C. Dvorak and Dan Patterson, join the fray. Amazon, Apple, CISPA, and the craziness around Klout headline this show. It’s TWiT 351 for April 29, 2012.

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Google, FCC and now DOJ Queries: Google Purposely Harvests Passwords, Emails, Info? (NYT)

The FCC had ended its investigation into privacy concerns surrounding Google Street View. Some reports of data collecting, sharing and triangulation were dismissed, by Google, as accidents. But now the full FTC report is out, the DOJ wants to see it and there’s a second engineer in there claiming data collection is quite planned. Here’s the fine the FTC has issued against Google for “obstructing” it investigation. No criminal or civil charges are filed. googlefccfine1DA-12-592A1

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Apple Founder Inventor Steve Wozniak: Why I Love My Windows Phone 7.5 Mango

Steve Wozniak tells Gina Smith, Todd Moore and Dan Patterson why he thinks the latest Windows 7 Mango makes his Nokia Lumia smartphone “beautiful and amazingly designed.” Here are some of the behind-the-scenes photos we shot. It’s anewdomain!

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Asteroid Mining: How It Works (Infographic)

Tech billionaires including Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and chair Eric Schmidt, director James Cameron back a big tech billionaire asteroid mining project. Here is how asteroid mining purportedly works. Source: SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration

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