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Today in Tech: Windows 8 first impressions
March 1, 2012: 4:30 AM ETFortune's curated selection of tech stories from the last 24 hours. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you each and every day.
* First impressions of Windows 8, from that Windows Phone-inspired "Metro" user interface to integration of Xbox Live. In one word: "disjointed." (Engadget)
* Netflix's (NFLX) contract with Starz expired yesterday, so films like Toy Story 3 and Scarface are no longer viewable online. (CNNMoney)
* AMD (AMD) is paying almost $334 million for the low-power server maker SeaMicro. (GigaOm)
* Video game publisher Blizzard Entertainment is laying off 600 employees -- 90% of whom are not directly involved in game development -- as part of restructuring efforts. (The Verge)
* Facebook unveiled new features for marketers and brands, including business pages with the recently-introduced Timeline format. (The Next Web and Facebook)
* Four ways to prepare for Google's (GOOG) new privacy policy, which starts today. (The Los Angeles Times)
* How the quiet content discovery startup StumbleUpon saved itself. (Fortune)
* Popular social magazine Flipboard rolled out a major update to the iPad app, which includes "Cover Stories," a hub that serves up several items based on a user's social connections. (Flipboard)
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How StumbleUpon saved itself
It doesn't have Facebook's huge user base or Pinterest's deafening buzz, but some people use this quiet social media service just as much, and advertisers may actually prefer putting their ad dollars in it.
FORTUNE -- StumbleUpon, the ten-year-old social site, has managed something few Silicon Valley companies have: a comeback. It may not have the buzz -- or billions -- of Facebook, but StumbleUpon has managed to right itself after a brush MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Feb 29, 2012 12:56 PM ET -
News curation: finally, social media's killer app?
We've been inputting data into the social graph for years now. Personalized news curation may be the latest happy output, but it's been a long time coming.
FORTUNE -- Even the most casual social network user will admit that the Facebook or Twitter experience can be overwhelming -- that merciless stream of status updates and shared content, which sometimes feels less like a stream and more like a deluge, waits for MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Apr 26, 2011 1:10 PM ETPosted in: Facebook, Flipboard, iPad, Jonathan Glick, Nicholas Negroponte, StumbleUpon, The New York Times, Twitter
