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Mashable – Congratulations everyone, we officially made it through a royal wedding. Anyone with access to a computer inevitably heard about Prince William and Kate Middleton (finally) getting hitched. With all the hubbub, we understand if you had to miss one or two resources.
We’re back with another roundup of tools and resources published over the past week or so. We have stories on Amazon’s hiring spree, the new SEC regulations, a PR pro’s guide to blogging, and even a look at the next breed of robotic pets.

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PC World – Hulu Plus debuted yesterday on the Xbox 360, and HBO launched its HBO Go app for iPhone and iPad. It is quickly getting to the point where anything you can watch on traditional cable or satellite TV can also be watched via streaming from the Internet, but for now the options can be a bit confusing and intimidating.

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Appolicious – With more than three million active users and chart-topping status on the iTunes App Store, Friendly for Facebook – which launched last June – is “the unofficial Facebook iPad app.”

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AP – Yahoo Inc. cut CEO Carol Bartz’s compensation by 75 percent to $11.9 million last year as the Internet company struggled to revive its revenue growth, regulatory documents filed Friday show.

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Reuters – The Federal Trade Commission is alerting high-tech companies to gather data ahead of a probe of the dominance of Google Inc in the Internet search industry, Bloomberg reported on Friday.

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PC World – Internet records were smashed Friday by the first royal wedding of the social media era, as streaming video enabled billions to avoid the event’s brutal 2 a.m. wake-up call and watch the goings-on later instead of working.

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AP – Amazon.com Inc. this week launched a store that sells digital songs for 69 cents, an attempt to bring more people to its e-commerce website and bolster its plan to eventually charge people to store tunes on distant servers known as the cloud.

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Mashable – Every entrepreneur and his dog is offering a daily deals service these days. From Groupon’s slightly more original voucher system to Facebook’s newly launched Deals platform, deals have taken precedence in the web startup landscape.
Courtesy of Online MBA, here’s a cheat sheet for how four of the most popular daily deals sites and services — LivingSocial, Groupon, Facebook Deals and Google Offers — work, including how much money these companies are making and how many users each one might have.

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NewsFactor – Proving once again that anything Apple does is immediately put under a microscope, headlines are making their way across the Internet regarding the thickness of the just-debuted white iPhone 4.

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NewsFactor – Now that the dust has settled on the Amazon EC2 cloud outage, the company is offering an apology and a credit for its role in making many popular web sites, like FourSquare, Twitter, and Netflix, unavailable.

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AP – Prince William and Kate Middleton may have had a traditional wedding, but the Internet traffic that accompanied the ceremony was something very new for the royal family.

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PC World – Look out, Apple: Amazon’s just fired a shot that could challenge iTunes’ dominance in digital music. Amazon has slashed the price of several popular songs to just $0.69 on its Amazon MP3 service. The same songs are still $1.29 on iTunes.

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AFP – It may have been Kate Middleton’s big day — but her sister and maid of honour Pippa turned almost as many heads on Friday attracting a flood of praise on the Internet.

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PC World – Sony tried to calm customer fears by stating that the credit card data was encrypted, but attackers claim to already be selling that credit card data online. Either one of these parties is stretching the truth, or encrypting data doesn’t offer the level of protection we think it does.

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Mashable – Mike Shema is the engineering lead for the Qualys web application scanning service. He has authored several books, including Hack Notes: Web Application Security, and he blogs on web security topics at the companion site for his latest book, Seven Deadliest Web Attacks.
It’s astonishing that 10 years of technological progress have produced web application behemoths like Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo! and Google, while the actual technology inside the web browser remained relatively stagnant. Companies have grown to billion-dollar valuations (realistic or not) by figuring out how to shovel HTML over HTTP in ways that make investors, advertisers, and users happy.

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PC World – Amazon has posted an essay-length explanation of the cloud outage that took offline some of the Web’s most popular services last week. In summary, it appears that human error during an system upgrade meant a redundant backup network for the Elastic Block Service (EBS) accidentally took up the entire network traffic in the U.S. East Region, overloading it, and jamming up the system.

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PC World – Amazon has posted an essay-length explanation of the cloud outage that took offline some of the Web’s most popular services last week. In summary, it appears that human error during an system upgrade meant a redundant backup network for the Elastic Block Service (EBS) accidentally took up the entire network traffic in the U.S. East Region, overloading it, and jamming up the system.

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Mashable – Most viewers turned on their TVs to watch footage of the Royal Wedding. But the event was also big online, breaking livestreaming records and sweeping the trending topics of major search engines and social networks.
As expected, many viewers turned to Twitter Friday morning to share reactions as they watched the broadcast on their TVs and other devices. By the time the ceremony began at 6 a.m. ET, all 10 worldwide trending topics on Twitter were related to the Royal Wedding.

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Mashable – Most viewers turned on their TVs to watch footage of the Royal Wedding. But the event was also big online, breaking livestreaming records and sweeping the trending topics of major search engines and social networks.
As expected, many viewers turned to Twitter Friday morning to share reactions as they watched the broadcast on their TVs and other devices. By the time the ceremony began at 6 a.m. ET, all 10 worldwide trending topics on Twitter were related to the Royal Wedding.

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PC World – This is a timeline of major events associated with the attack on Sony’s PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services.Dates are given relative to the location the events took place. Sony announcements, released globally, are listed according to their publication in the U.S. See also PlayStation Network Security Breach: A Survival Guide.”)

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PC World – This is a timeline of major events associated with the attack on Sony’s PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services.Dates are given relative to the location the events took place. Sony announcements, released globally, are listed according to their publication in the U.S. See also PlayStation Network Security Breach: A Survival Guide.”)

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PC Magazine – The Internet Center for Assigned Names and Numbers said Thursday that it had hired Jeff Moss, the founder of DEFCON and the Black Hat Conference, to lead its security efforts.

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PC Magazine – The Internet Center for Assigned Names and Numbers said Thursday that it had hired Jeff Moss, the founder of DEFCON and the Black Hat Conference, to lead its security efforts.

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Reuters – Amazon.com Inc apologized to customers for an outage at its Web hosting business that caused some websites to crash, saying it would credit them for their inconvenience.

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AFP – Britain’s royal wedding broke records for live streaming on Friday, Internet firms said, causing some websites to falter under the strain as hundreds of millions watched online.

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AFP – Amazon apologized Friday for an outage of its Web-hosting service that knocked a number of companies offline, including such popular websites as Foursquare, Quora and Reddit.

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AFP – 1500 GMT: SO THAT’S US. With the streets of central London clearing of the crowds, and the new Duke & Duchess heading off – in some style – by car, we will close this live report.

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AFP – 1500 GMT: SO THAT’S US. With the streets of central London clearing of the crowds, and the new Duke & Duchess heading off – in some style – by car, we will close this live report.

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AP – Amazon.com Inc. apologized Friday for a data-center outage that brought down major websites including Foursquare and Reddit and offered Web services customers a 10-day credit.

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AP – Jeff Moss, a prominent computer hacker who founded the annual Black Hat and DefCon security conferences in Las Vegas, has been hired as the chief security officer for the organization that coordinates names of the world’s Web sites.

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PC World – The royal wedding went off without a hitch Friday morning, and the Internet appeared to survive the event as well.

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Appolicious – Today’s fresh apps are all about observation. Track cool stuff on eBay with WatchedItem or remotely parent your kids with Kid Cell Safe.

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Appolicious – Today’s fresh apps are all about observation. Track cool stuff on eBay with WatchedItem or remotely parent your kids with Kid Cell Safe.

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Mashable – Online philanthropy is swamped with one-off campaigns that raise a lot of noise around a major event and then die down for the rest of the year. But Carlo Garcia is doing the exact opposite with his online project. Garcia is back with his second year of Living Philanthropic, a one-man project to donate to charity 365 days in a row.
For round two, however, Garcia has revamped the model. Instead of donating to 365 different charities, he’s featuring one per month (12 total) and pooling his money to deliver larger personal donations to each charity. He’s also crowdsourcing a bit of help.

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Mashable – Online philanthropy is swamped with one-off campaigns that raise a lot of noise around a major event and then die down for the rest of the year. But Carlo Garcia is doing the exact opposite with his online project. Garcia is back with his second year of Living Philanthropic, a one-man project to donate to charity 365 days in a row.
For round two, however, Garcia has revamped the model. Instead of donating to 365 different charities, he’s featuring one per month (12 total) and pooling his money to deliver larger personal donations to each charity. He’s also crowdsourcing a bit of help.

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Mashable – Sean Cook is CEO of ShopVisible LLC. With more than 11 years of experience in online marketing, management and new technology innovation, Cook translates ShopVisible’s premier e-commerce platform solution into bottom line results for clients.
Social ecommerce is becoming more and more important on networks like Facebook. More than another “new frontier,” it is attracting innovative marketers that are taking advantage of new technologies and responding to their consumers.

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Mashable – Sean Cook is CEO of ShopVisible LLC. With more than 11 years of experience in online marketing, management and new technology innovation, Cook translates ShopVisible’s premier e-commerce platform solution into bottom line results for clients.
Social ecommerce is becoming more and more important on networks like Facebook. More than another “new frontier,” it is attracting innovative marketers that are taking advantage of new technologies and responding to their consumers.

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PC Magazine – In a lengthy document posted online, Amazon formally apologized for the cloud outage that crippled many online businesses last week.

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PC Magazine – In a lengthy document posted online, Amazon formally apologized for the cloud outage that crippled many online businesses last week.

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PC World – Sony may offer users some form of compensation for the outage, now in its 8th day, of the PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services, its U.S. unit said late Thursday.

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PC World – Sony may offer users some form of compensation for the outage, now in its 8th day, of the PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services, its U.S. unit said late Thursday.

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Mashable – The Royal Wedding has begun live streaming from multiple networks across the web. We’ve embedded two of the livestreams for your viewing pleasure below, courtesy of CBS News and E! Insider.
To see our full guide for following (and discussing) the Royal Wedding online, click here.

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Mashable – The Royal Wedding has begun live streaming from multiple networks across the web. We’ve embedded two of the livestreams for your viewing pleasure below, courtesy of CBS News and E! Insider.
To see our full guide for following (and discussing) the Royal Wedding online, click here.

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Mashable – With hours to go until the Royal Wedding, online buzz surrounding the big event has surpassed the chatter that surrounded the Egypt uprising and the Japan earthquake.
New stats gathered and analyzed by Webtrends reveal that the world simply can’t stop talking about the Royal Wedding (not that you needed us to tell you). According to the web analytics company, people have sent 911,000 tweets in the last 30 days, or just a little more than 30,000 tweets per day, which accounts for 71% of the buzz Webtrends tracked. For comparison, there were approximately 217,000 Facebook status updates and 145,000 blog posts about William and Kate’s big day.

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Mashable – With hours to go until the Royal Wedding, online buzz surrounding the big event has surpassed the chatter that surrounded the Egypt uprising and the Japan earthquake.
New stats gathered and analyzed by Webtrends reveal that the world simply can’t stop talking about the Royal Wedding (not that you needed us to tell you). According to the web analytics company, people have sent 911,000 tweets in the last 30 days, or just a little more than 30,000 tweets per day, which accounts for 71% of the buzz Webtrends tracked. For comparison, there were approximately 217,000 Facebook status updates and 145,000 blog posts about William and Kate’s big day.

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Mashable – Google and its partners made a major bet on Google TV, an ambitious attempt to bridge the gap between the web and TV worlds. But so far it has failed to pay dividends — quite literally, in the case of Google partner Logitech.
On Thursday, Logitech released its fourth quarter fiscal report, and the results were a mixed bag. Operating income was a mere $3.6 million, a far cry from the $24.5 million it made a year ago. But sales were up 4% compared to last year.

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AFP – A former Miss USA who says she felt “helpless and violated” during a pat down by a female airport security guard in Dallas, Texas has started a Twitter campaign on her blog to stop “invasive” body searches.

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AFP – The agency in charge of the world’s Internet addresses on Thursday appointed veteran hacker Jeff Moss to be its chief of security.

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AFP – The agency in charge of the world’s Internet addresses on Thursday appointed veteran hacker Jeff Moss to be its chief of security.

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Appolicious – This week’s best games list offers a pretty wide variety of quality titles at (mostly) bargain prices, and it kicks off with Gameloft’s newest entry to the App Store, Order & Chaos Online. If you’ve heard of World of Warcraft, you probably get the gist of the developer’s expansive and ambitious title. There are a lot of players to team up with in Order & Chaos, and the first three months of gameplay are free without a subscription. …

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