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• 09 May 2013

• News: YouTube rolls out paid subscription channels

  Not everything on YouTube is free any more. The video-sharing website will now charge users a monthly fee to view certain content offered through subscription channels, the Google-owned site announced Thursday.

• News: New Google timelapse project shows how Earth has changed over 28 years

  The times, they are a-changin'--but a new Google timelapse project shows just how much the world's geography is a-changin' too, based on nearly 30 years of satellite imagery.

• News: Facebook Home attracts close to 1 million downloads

  Facebook has attracted "just about" 1 million downloads of its Home application in its first month of availability.

• News: Facebook Home attracts close to 1 million downloads

  Facebook has attracted "just about" 1 million downloads of its Home application in its first month of availability.

• News: 4 key ways to a successful portfolio from Behance's Scott Belsky

  At the Max conference in Los Angeles, Behance's co-founder gave advice and discussed the future of the portfolio site under Adobe's ownership.

• News: Slideshow: 10 great technologies to secretly install on Mom's PC

  She's your mom. She's risen to every challenge, not the least of which was raising you to be the fine, upstanding PC enthusiast you are today.

• News: Facebook may be driving deal for Waze mobile app

  Facebook reportedly is in talks to buy a popular Israeli-based crowd-sourced mapping and traffic app.

• News: 5 insanely niche social networks to combat Facebook fatigue

  If social networks were ice cream flavors, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter would be hopelessly vanilla.

• News: Pioneer to crowdsource car navigation, add augmented reality

  Pioneer will soon launch a new car navigation system in Japan that uses dashboard cameras to scan the road ahead for approaching street signs and other cars, and will share images of road conditions with other vehicles.

• News: California may outlaw 3-D printed guns

  Proposed legislation in California aims to ban guns made using 3-D printing, after an organization Defense Distributed fired a handgun made with the technology, and said it would distribute its drawings online.

• 08 May 2013

• News: Facebook to Microsoft: Dump fake Facebook apps from Windows Phone Store

  Facebook has asked Microsoft to remove 41 unofficial and clone 'Facebook' apps from the Windows Phone store as the social network prepares to introduce its official app for the platform.

• News: Google may roll out overhauled Maps at Google I/O

  Google Maps is reportedly getting an overhaul that may be shown off at the annual Google I/O conference next week.

• News: Internet back up in Syria after 20-hour outage

  Syria suffered another Internet and mobile communications outage that lasted for about 20 hours. Service was restored earlier today.

• News: Manage multiple social media accounts with your Mac

  Keeping up with just one social media account is tough enough. But if you personally hang out on even one or two more services, or are in charge of socializing with your business's customers online, juggling it all starts to feel a lot more like work, and not the fun kind. Here are a few tools and tricks--some for power users, others for business cases, and even a slightly nerdier option--that can help take the drudgery out of managing social media.

• News: Consumer service lawsuit looms for Google in Germany

  A lawsuit against Google's customer service practices in Germany is looming after the company declined to sign a document promising German consumer organizations to start answering customer emails individually.

• News: Welcome sign for hijackers on 24-7 for 30% of social networkers

  Survey also finds nearly half of netizens need nudge to change passwords

• News: Social and mobile a priority for businesses, but so are traditional outlets: Optus

  There is a lot of industry chatter about using digital means in engaging with customers, but Optus has found that bricks and mortar and call centres are still prevalent in Australia.

• News: Microsoft extends revenue per search agreement with Yahoo

  Microsoft has extended a search revenue guarantee agreement with Yahoo for one more year, amid reports that the Internet company is trying to break its 10-year agreement with Microsoft.

• News: Downdetector.com scours Twittersphere to detect service outages faster

  A Dutch startup has launched a service that studies data from social networks to quickly identify online service outages -- sometimes, it says, before the service providers know about the outages themselves.

• 07 May 2013

• News: San Francisco adds social networking element to emergency, disaster planning

  If an earthquake struck San Francisco tomorrow, would its residents be prepared for the aftermath?

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