Today Facebook’s vice president of product marketing, Chamath Palihapitiya , a former venture capitalist (Mayfield Fund) and once the head of AOL’s AIM division, spent a few moments on stage at TieCon , where he proceeded to describe Facebook in a rather unusual manner.

With many years of experience in GPS and in satellite technology generally, Lockheed Martin is now charged with leading the development and deployment of the next-generation GPS III system. (Credit: Lockheed Martin) If you haven't already joined the rush to buy a handheld GPS device, you probably will soon.

Senator Barack Obama responded to attacks on his foreign policy and tried to turn the tables on his critics. .

Pulsars are supposed to be highly magnetized rotating stars which emit a beam of radiation in the form of radio waves. They usually have a circular orbit around white dwarf stars. Now scientists have found a pulsar which behaves quite differently from the usual.

Loïc Le Meur / Loic Le Meur Blog : Steven Spielberg, Harisson Ford, George Lucas in Seesmic this morning   —  Pic by sizemore showing the impressive setup in Cannes with Seesmic on the computer, ready to receive the movie stars!  —  Guardian Journalist Jemima Kiss was one of the Seesmic community members who asked questions ….

Fred / A VC : As Long As We Are Rethinking Yahoo's Board   —  Carl Icahn has suggested a new slate of directors for Yahoo! as part of his proxy fight with the company.

Twitter is at an awkward point in their lifetime. It’s their age of prepubescence. The time in every young tech companies life when it’s time to face some of the issues that will thrust them into their teenage and adult lives.

For consumers, the power of the distributed web is accessing and connecting content across one’s internet usage and social graph. For content owners, the power of the distributed web is precisely that: one’s content is distributed such that it attracts new readers and generates more traffic.

The new version 2. 4. 1 is available now! New features: New graphical design for the logos, the splash window and the about window, made by Eberhard Klauke.

We’ve said it numerous times before, and we’ll say it again. Bebo is big in the UK. One of the largest social networks in the region. More specifically, it’s Ireland’s #1. So it presumably comes as welcome news to Irish users that the company, recently sold to AOL to the tune of $850 million, has recently appointed a Mr Philip Macartney as its new head of sales to operate out of Dublin.

Chamath Palihapitiya, vice president of marketing and operations at Facebook, pitches entrepreneurs at the TieCon conference. (Credit: Stefanie Olsen/CNET News. com) SANTA CLARA, Calif. --As you might expect from a vice president of product marketing, Facebook's Chamath Palihapitiya can deliver a convincing sales pitch.

ICTV, a leader in bringing web content to televisions, has decided to adopt their ActiveVideo brand as their primary title. ActiveVideo Networks will be the name the company as a whole goes by from the present day onward. The name change is a result of the company wanting to better convey the move of the company to an even larger commitment to bring Web content to your televisions in the form of...

AMD-ATI and Nvidia are preparing for the next graphics chip showdown. And there is already a good deal of information (and rumor) on the two chips due in June. The names of the two upcoming product families have been widely reported : The ATI line is branded as the Radeon HD.

If you’re going to encourage your clients to interact with you, for Pete’s sake do it right. I was talking to a fellow communications professional this week when she mentioned a recent effort her employer had undertaken. They posted a series of videos on YouTube giving their perspective on a high-profile issue and opened comments on those videos.

When Apple purchased chip manufacturer P. A. Semi, the Department of Defense was worried. Why? P. A. Semi manufactures chips for ten different military systems, and has $100 million in deals with the DoD over the next four years.

There's no doubt that the focus of the web is shifting to the community. At the forefront of this shift is social media. Social media can be loosely defined as the movement of community contributions in an effort to help one another.

Via ReadWriteWeb. com ’s Marshall Kirkpatrick, I learned about — and downloaded — a new “Adobe Air” application called Snackr that is total news-junkie crack. I’ve already had to turn it off because it’s one of those things that sucks out every last ounce of attention span your soul can muster.

A few weeks ago, I got to sit down with Valerie Gurka of FearlessBusinessTV and talk about BricaBox and the trends we’re following. You can view the video here or below. .

Below are five of the newest startups according to Killer Startups for the period ending May 17, 2008. Check out previous Killer Startups posts. DealQue - Cheap Social Shopping Who doesn't like deals, especially in declining economic times like these? DealQUE (pronounced 'cue') specializes in finding the best deals the internet has to offer.

Not a week passes by without The Pirate Bay making some headline somewhere in the world. Whether its flouting copyright owners or battling law enforcement agencies, the site’s administrators are wont to spread a mixed bag of misery and cheer to big-business content producers and and consumers, respectively.