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Anonymous Successfully Attacks CIA Website, Russian TV Given Scoop

Anonymous is allegedly responsible for taking CIA.gov offline; the site has been inaccessible for more than an hour.READ»

5 Reasons Best Practices Suck

Best practices are like vampires: they can suck an organization of productivity, drain its creativity, and bleed its initiative. If you seek perfection in perpetuity, your organization’s learning apparatus will become an animated corpse cursed through the ages to feed on its ancestors.READ»

YouTube And Shiva Rajaraman Bring Intelligent Channel Picks To Online Video

How do you create technology to recommend new channels to users? And when does a person need to step in to curate these recommendations? In this extended version of the conversation from our latest issue, we chat with Shiva Rajaraman, Group Product Manager for YouTube.READ»

Like Peter Thiel's Fellows, Sebastian Thrun Dropped Out, Hacked Education, Too

What the former Stanford professor-turned-independent educator teaches us about the new online power dynamic.READ»

Apple Rumor Patrol: New iPads And iPhones Coming Soon

Apple's iPad 3 may be coming as soon as early March, according to some current rumors, sporting a bigger battery and a better screen--info that confirms other, earlier, rumors. We've wandered among this web of intrigue for you:READ»

If Your Customers Are Poised For Revolt, It's Time For Extreme Trust

It used to be that a business could generate substantial profits by keeping its customers in the dark. But sooner or later practices like those will put your company in as much jeopardy as a Middle Eastern dictator. If you want to stay out of the line of fire, your best course of action is to protect the interests of your customer, proactively. READ»

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Why Google Is Getting Into Entertainment: Your Data

Google's forthcoming device is already much buzzed about. It will stream music with hardware and will eventually go far beyond tunes. Here's why it all makes sense.READ»

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This Week In Bots: Dogs Of War

Heating robots, war robots, and soldier-assisting robots that will upset those of a nervous disposition. It's all in This Week In Bots:READ»

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Career?

Five simple actions can be dangerous and detrimental to your success. Are you guilty as charged?READ»

Staying Competitive In A Customer-Centric World

It's a common misconception that knowledge is information when actually, it's the human capacity to take action facing uncertainty. In other words, when you face a problem, how quickly and efficiently can you find and use the knowledge you need to solve it?READ»

8 Reasons Your Social Initiative Will Fail

The social software market is booming as companies rush to deploy software that help workers share information and communicate with colleagues, customers, and suppliers. But it's tricker to implement than you might think. Here are 8 things you need to avoid to get it right the first time. READ»

4 Social Startups on Track for a Monster 2012

With one month down in 2012, it's a good thing we waited until February to put this out. One of the four sites below wasn't even on our radar until late last month. All four are heading in the right direction in a segment of the internet that has most saying Facebook has muscled everyone else out.READ»

ManageWP Is The Unified Wordpress Dashboard We've Needed For Years

When it comes to managing multiple sites at once, most bloggers were limited in their choices--especially using Wordpress, which has been conspicuously obtuse when it comes to managing multiple blogs from a single platform. That's the gap that ManageWP fills.READ»

A Hacker School That Helps Solve Silicon Valley's Hiring Problem

Tech companies can't find enough engineers. So why not train them yourself? For free. And then make $20K a pop on recruiting fees.READ»

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