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The Venture Capital Shakeout
WEBGUILD June 2010 -- The effect: The cycle is broken. To fix it, VCs must double their returns on investors’ capital, significantly scale up the VC asset class, or face the prospect of the industry’s shrinking in half.
Consumer Watchdog’s Call To Investigate Google’s WiSpy
WEBGUILD June 18, 2010 Posted by John M. Simpson -- Attorneys general across the United States are responding to Consumer Watchdog’s call to investigate Google’s WiSpy debacle in which the company used its Street View vehicles to snoop on private WiFi networks for three years.
Facebook: A Single Point of Failure for the Web?
As was noted in The Nosey Faces Behind Facebook the leading social network has its roots in government, specifically DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). So it should come as no surprise now that Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg is promoting a new Open Graph API (application programming interface), designed to allow Facebook and participating sites to blend their respective user "social graphs" to customize their site experience for each individual visitor. Sounds great, no?
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