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Wow, you have quite the hardon for facebook.

Would love to read this if it wasn't for Wordpress using OnSwipe. Why is this awful startup breaking website usability?

At the bottom they state "Your ads preferences only apply in this browser on this computer. They are reset if you delete your browser's cookies."

You probably cleared your cookies already or are using a browser you don't normally use. I'm glad this is cookie based and not tied into the actual logged in Google account.

PPC ads in Google SERPs are a great thing because they're keyword-based, highly relevant and targeted.

The problem with ads starts to happen when we get into behavioral targeting, remarketing/retargeting, data exchanges, etc. This is where things get a little creepy. People don't want profiles built up on them with all of their likes and dislikes so that display ads can be better served to them.

What's worse is that Google has been testing out banner ads on some of their other properties like Google Image Search, and Facebook-style ads are showing up in Gmail (see the Groupon ones?).

I'm worried that some day the Google we know and love will end up looking like Yahoo around the late 90's, littered with banner ads.

I remember people making a switch back then to Google when it was banner ad-free and had great search results.

I'm describing Airbnb averting a PR nightmare (which this has become). This is a pretty valuable lesson for any startup.

Now you have to be an insurance company to do the "right thing"? Airbnb had a chance to take care of this from the very beginning and we wouldn't even be talking about this right now if they had. That's the point.

I hope bloggers will think twice before using this crap.

Please read: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2699610

RAZR, ROKR, RIZR, KRZR, PEBL, SLVR

shudders

Google is 2.4%, I think.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2783382

Just do a search for anything local and you'll see.

For us Mac folks:

http://code.google.com/p/openjdk-osx-build/

Excellent. Looking forward to the memory enhancements that should help make Minecraft servers less of a hog :)

iOS 5 will solve at least part of this for you: The new Safari will have tabs and the touch keyboard will be "split"

http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/apples-ios-5-finally-brin...

This reminds me of when Google gained registrar status in 2005:

http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/it-strategy/2005/02/02/google-ga...

The more information they have access to, well ...

Truth hurts, huh guys?

"People are entitled to their anonymity and privacy."

I wish more people would respect this- Google, Mark Zuckerberg, users.

It's ironic how back in the early days of the internet, there was a sense of anonymity where people were afraid to share info online but now anyone willingly posts their most personal details for all to see because those "dumb fucks"[1] trust Mark Zuckerberg.

Now, we've opened ourselves up to this: http://blogs.forbes.com/kashmirhill/2011/06/20/now-your-emba... and it could come back to bite us all in the ass.

1. http://gizmodo.com/5538489/19+year+old-facebook-ceo-didnt-ta...

I bet Google probably doesn't care all that much. Users are product sold to advertisers.

I don't know, this might be good way to explain your idea to a non-investor but for VC's I've read the opposite: http://www.businessinsider.com/entrepreneurs-dont-tell-an-in...

I think instead you can better form your pitch like this: http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/03/madlibs-pitch-adeo-ressi-fo...

Facebook is a glorified vBulletin and IM client. It's a time waster that most people use to e-stalk or share meaningless information. I think the sooner we drop the mantra that it's "engrained in our lives," the sooner we move on to real innovation. Here's a typical day on Facebook: http://i.imgur.com/ub51D.jpg

Stop. There is no value in maintaining shallow social connections. Work on making your actual friendships stronger instead of having 1000 acquaintances on Facebook. Your life has not been improved by Facebook beyond regular old email.

Aww, down votes expected. waves at Facebook employee brigade

I'll just leave this link here for you guys to read: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2797060

Secret Sauce = Google's search algorithm. Facebook's news feed is just noise. Let's stop pretending Facebook is innovative.

"Fiduciary duty" is not a good excuse to be unethical.

"The world would be a better place if if companies focused on "people", and not on "money""

Nah, people are too busy worshiping things like Google+ and the next social network, things which really solve nothing at all.

Maybe this just looked like a good idea to Google at the time. Sometimes you have to make acquisitions to look progressive to your shareholders. Now, I'm betting they're glad they didn't make this purchase.

Look at Google Ventures and you might see some questional investments as well: http://www.googleventures.com/portfolio.html

Maybe it's my monitor, but I can't really see anything inside the circle in the Venus photo. This is a cool project though.

Xcode 4 was in the spring and I'm pretty sure we saw this due to releases of iOS along with iOS 5 beta.

Apple can't only tie Xcode releases to versions of OS X anymore, there's iOS they have to think about.

Anyone know why Apple didn't update Ruby to 1.9.2 in Lion?

Really great of Apple to make it require Lion. Release new OS product, shove it down devs throats.

Just what tech startups need- more clueless MBA types telling the engineers what to do.

I'll cite this: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2081930,00....