According to The New York Times, the social network will incorporate location in two ways: (1) its own features for sharing location and (2) APIs to let other apps – presumably the likes of Foursquare and Gowalla – offer location services to Facebook users.

As with most families, ours occasionally has bumps. Marriages show cracks, and siblings fight, just like any other unit. When one couple was rumored to be talking of splitting, it became even more official when the in-law unfriended all of the other's siblings and relatives, making a clean break. When friend requests came from the crazy aunt who had ridiculous political leanings, it was declined. And people internally squabble about why one sibling's photos get a ton of comments, but another's don't.

Andreessen asked me if TechCrunch is working on an iPad app or planning on putting up a paywall. I gave him a blank stare. He laughed and noted that none of the newer Web publications (he’s an investor in the Business Insider) are either. “”All the new companies are not spending a nanosecond on the iPad or thinking of ways to charge for content. The older companies, that is all they are thinking about.”

But people pay for apps. Wouldn’t he pay for a beautiful touchscreen version of a magazine? Maybe, if it were something genuinely new that blew him away. It would have to be more than an article with video and graphics though. (I agree, otherwise it’s no better than a CD-ROM).

Oh, and he points out, that the iPad will have a “fantastic browser.” No matter how many iPads the Apple sells, the Web will always be the bigger market. “There are 2 billion people on the Web,” he says. “The iPad will be a huge success if it sells 5 million units.”

Despite trying time and again, Andreessen’s observation is that media companies have no aptitude for technology, nor do they really understand what technology companies do. The one thing technology companies do really well is deal with constant disruption. “Microsoft is going through this right now,” he points out, “Ballmer is not complaining about it.” He’s tackling it head on. So did Intel when Andy Grove gutted it to shift from memory chips to microprocessors. So does every technology company CEO. It is ingrained in the industry Andreessen comes from, so it is just obvious to him: “You are cruising along, and then technology changes. You have to adapt.” Media companies need to learn that lesson fast. To the extent that their products are now delivered and consumed as digital bits, they too are becoming technology companies.

Beyond the iPad, he believes that all the talk once again from big media companies about erecting paywalls or somehow charging for news, articles and video online is shortsighted at best. He comes back to the simple fact that the open Web is where the users are. Talking about paywalls and paid apps is like saying, “We know where the market is and we are not going to go there.” Print newspapers and magazines will never get there, he argues, until they burn the boats and shut down their print operations. Yes, there are still a lot of people and money in those boats—billions of dollars in revenue in some cases. “At risk is 80% of revenues and headcount,” Andreessen acknowledges, “but shift happens.” You’d have to be crazy to burn the boats. Crazy like Cortes.

Nina Paley alerts us to a neat writeup (with illustrations) that she did, discussing the concept of originality, and why it's so often misconstrued. First, things that many people think are "original" usually aren't very original at all. They tend to be derivative in some way or another -- a point that we've made here many times. And yet, many people seem to think that there's some sort of objective standard for originality, and that something that involves a direct copy of something else as part of the process can't count as original (though, they conveniently ignore it when "the greats" like Mozart or Shakespeare did a direct cut-and-paste type of copying in their own works).

Paley then goes on to make a second point: which is that the traditional gatekeepers of culture, for all their talk of the importance of originality (whenever they talk down any kind of copying) are actually more likely to stomp on anything truly original, because there is no "proven market" for it. A movie has to fit a certain formula. A hit pop song must meet a series of pre-programmed conditions. No originality allowed.

Zuckerberg apparently became anxious that the paper would run a story on him after all.

Business Insider claimed he then told a friend how he had hacked into the accounts of Crimson staff.

He allegedly told the friend that he used TheFacebook.com to search for members who said they were Crimson staff.

Then, he allegedly examined a report of failed logins to see if any of the Crimson members had ever entered an incorrect password into TheFacebook.com.

In the instances where they had, Business Insider claimed that Zuckerberg said he tried using those incorrect passwords to access the Crimson members' Harvard email accounts.

In two instances, the magazine claimed, he succeeded - and was able to read emails between Crimson staff discussing the possibility of writing an article on the accusations surrounding him.

'In other words,' Business Insider claimed, 'Mark appears to have used private login data from TheFacebook to hack into the separate email accounts of some TheFacebook users'.

via @synopsi

LinkedIn profiles maintained by a candidate are more accurate than the Resume maintained by the same candidate...:

Think about that one for a second.  Wait for it - there you go - the clarity and realization that if you're truly looking for "what's up" with a candidate, you need to rely on the LinkedIn profile.  Why is that true?  Because there's a community of co-workers, friends and past colleagues that always have access to the LinkedIn profile, and there's no such community with constant visibility to a random resume the candidate sends in, and you have no means to circulate the resume to that type of community to fact check.

Mohl bych s vámi probírat úřady jeden po druhém. Za posledních pět let - a to vládla pravice - se počet pracovníků parlamentu zdvojnásobil. Jak to? Poslanců jsme před pěti lety měli stejně jako dnes. Zaměstnanci parlamentu nepobírají 14 platů ročně, jak je běžné jinde, ne, oni berou 16 platů. Navíc se jim patnáctý a šestnáctý plat nedaní.

* LN Vlastní stát nějaké firmy?

Tam je to totéž v bleděmodrém. Například Olympic Airways - před restrukturalizací v roce 2003 to byla státní letecká společnost, která prodělávala milion eur denně. Oni zaměstnávali dvakrát víc lidí, než bylo třeba. Přebytek pilotů se maskoval redukcí nalétaných hodin, ale taky třeba nařízením, že pilot, který letí do New Yorku, tam musí dvě nebo tři noci přespat. Aby nebyl v Řecku na očích.

* LN Co s tím vláda udělala?

Zabralo jí to pět let a problém se podařilo vyřešit až za cenu ohromných finančních kompenzací. Dnes houfy bývalých pilotů sedí doma a pobírají 14 tisíc eur měsíčně za to, že nedělají nic. Takových příkladů jsou stovky. Ve státním Telekomu zaměstnávali 25 tisíc lidí, až jeho výkonný ředitel prohlásil, že jich potřebuje jen 12 tisíc, jinak ho zničí soukromá konkurence. Jenže vláda za žádnou cenu nechtěla vypadat jako ten, kdo vyhazuje lidi z práce. Takže každý zaměstnanec, který souhlasil s odchodem, dostal v průměru 200 tisíc eur kompenzace.

* LN Ovlivňuje výše odstupného ve veřejném sektoru odstupné v soukromém sektoru?

Souvisí to spolu. Zákon podnikatelům nařizuje vyplácet dlouholeté zaměstnance tolika měsíčními platy, kolik ten člověk ve firmě strávil roků. Což je na evropské poměry velkorysé. Jaké odstupné předepisuje zákon v České republice?

* LN Tři měsíční platy.

U nás je pro dlouholeté zaměstnance v soukromém sektoru stanoveno minimum 24 platů. Státním zaměstnancům se to ovšem zdá málo, takže dostávají někde 72, jinde 100 měsíčních platů. Peníze pro lidi, které stát ve skutečnosti vůbec nepotřebuje, neberou konce.