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The Facebook Drama "The Social Network" Won't Show You

BY Ellen McGirt
Relevancy Score: 16

The Social Network is not the feel-good movie of the year--certainly not for Mark Zuckerberg, or for the dozens of exceptionally talented men and women who created Facebook. They were, and are, brilliant, hardworking and imaginative people who managed to survive the uniquely fraught early moments of an online start-up. It was a swirl alright, but not the way the film would have you think.READ»

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"Inside Job" Filmmaker Charles Ferguson Hopes to Help Send Bankers to Jail

BY Linda Tischler
Relevancy Score: 16

"This has cost the American people trillions of dollars," Ferguson tells Fast Company. If only he were talking about his film and not the deception behind the financial crisis.READ»

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Quitting Facebook Is Pointless; Challenging Them to Do Better Is Not

BY Danah Boyd
Relevancy Score: 13

In recent weeks, tech pundits have been deleting their Facebook accounts and encouraging others to join them. Most are signing off in response to Facebook's ongoing bait-and-switch tactics that leave them not trusting Facebook. ...READ»

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The Tech CTO?

BY Robert Scoble
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Larry Lessig started Creative Commons, is a law professor at Stanford and is doing a lot of thinking about how to get Congress to be more responsive to our needs. Here we talk about that and whether America needs a Chief Technology ...READ»

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What Startups Can Learn from the Dean and Obama Campaigns

BY Francine Hardaway
Relevancy Score: 43

In the spirit of avoiding the things everyone else is already telling you from SXSW, I didn't go to hear Dave Morin announce Facebook Connect's availability for iPhone, or Larry Lessig's presentation on how to change Congress. ...READ»

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Only Connect

BY Heath Row
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David Weinberger is a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Institute for Internet & Society. Co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto and Small Pieces Loosely Joined, he writes about technology, philosophy, and marketing. His closing presentation ...READ»