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1.Distributed Facebook replacement Diaspora pledged 2x the funding it requested (kickstarter.com)
222 points by JayNeely on May 11, 2010 | 132 comments
2.Life is Beautiful (zeldman.com)
177 points by ihodes on May 11, 2010 | 33 comments
3.The technology behind the new Google Docs editor (googledocs.blogspot.com)
175 points by yanw on May 11, 2010 | 39 comments
4.Better performance in App Engine with new Lisp language Clojure (googlecode.blogspot.com)
173 points by mattyb on May 11, 2010 | 85 comments
5.Wolfire open sourcing Aquaria, Gish, Lugaru HD, and Penumbra Overture (wolfire.com)
130 points by mcantelon on May 11, 2010 | 22 comments
6.How did Facebook guess my email address? (reddit.com)
126 points by iamdave on May 11, 2010 | 58 comments
7.Why Snakebites Are About to Get a Lot More Deadly (popularmechanics.com)
124 points by cwan on May 11, 2010 | 129 comments
8.Music Notation with HTML5 Canvas (0xfe.blogspot.com)
107 points by brolewis on May 11, 2010 | 14 comments
9.Increase conversion rate by making your site ugly (conversionvoodoo.com)
85 points by aresant on May 11, 2010 | 43 comments
10.Iron Man 2's Secret Sauce: 3-D Printing (fastcompany.com)
83 points by binarymax on May 11, 2010 | 45 comments
11.Google Android Outsells Apple iPhone In The U.S. (sfgate.com)
71 points by jacquesm on May 11, 2010 | 53 comments
12.For the Win, Cory Doctrow's new novel about economics and gaming blackmarket (craphound.com)
70 points by rick_2047 on May 11, 2010 | 12 comments
13.Reddit's May 2010 "State of the Servers" report (reddit.com)
69 points by pavs on May 11, 2010 | 16 comments
14.SR-71 Blackbird Flight Manual (sr-71.org)
68 points by ibejoeb on May 11, 2010 | 23 comments
15.Paypal and Authorize.net: Help End the Credit Card Hostage Situation (braintreepaymentsolutions.com)
68 points by browser411 on May 11, 2010 | 51 comments
16.Beautiful Image Hover Effect Using Only Webkit CSS (No JS) (nikesh.me)
65 points by theone on May 11, 2010 | 48 comments
17.Anand retains world chess championship title (chessvibes.com)
63 points by juanefren on May 11, 2010 | 26 comments
18.Data, data everywhere (economist.com)
63 points by helwr on May 11, 2010 | 16 comments
19.Lugaru Goes Open-Source (wolfire.com)
62 points by kevinh on May 11, 2010 | 8 comments

The eventual Facebook replacement will look nothing like Facebook in terms of functionality. I wouldn't give a penny to a startup/project that positioned themselves against Facebook like this. Any variation of an "Open Facebook" of some sort is bound to fail.

Facebook's real problem is not user backlash from their privacy shortcomings, but the future of social networking in general. Some visionary will beat them to the future while they are busy milking the status quo.

This is not visionary, sorry.

21.Etherpad Foundation (etherpad.org)
60 points by pixelcort on May 11, 2010 | 14 comments
22.New HTML5 parser in Firefox 4 – SVG in HTML, faster parsing, and more (hacks.mozilla.org)
58 points by mbrubeck on May 11, 2010 | 6 comments
23.Yelp Security Hole Puts Facebook User Data At Risk (techcrunch.com)
57 points by bjonathan on May 11, 2010 | 27 comments

From the video: "My mum won't put anything on the internet unless she's ready to see it in a newspaper".

His mum is a smart lady.

25.No upvotes? No problem. (diveintothepool.wordpress.com)
53 points by sosuke on May 11, 2010 | 30 comments
26.The Road from Serfdom - an interview with F.A. Hayek (reason.com)
52 points by limist on May 11, 2010 | 36 comments
27.MongoDB: 8m ops/s on 25 servers (320k per server) (snailinaturtleneck.com)
53 points by dmytton on May 11, 2010 | 17 comments
28.Design Guidelines: Why doesn't every site/company have this? (stanford.edu)
49 points by NIL8 on May 11, 2010 | 29 comments
29.The High Frequency Trading Scam (2009) (seekingalpha.com)
48 points by aliston on May 11, 2010 | 37 comments
30.Square mobile payment system goes live on iPhone, iPad, and Android this week (engadget.com)
46 points by there on May 11, 2010 | 45 comments

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