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Google exec Andy Rubin wants to put rumors of his impending departure from the Web giant to rest.

The Android chief today turned to Google+, his company's social networking experiment, to dispel rumors that he planned to jump ship to a small startup called CloudCar.

"Cloudcar are a group of friends who I give free office space to in my incubator in Los Altos," Rubin said on his Google+ account. "Revel Touch (Mar Hershenson's company: www.reveltouch.com) is another cool company that shares this space. I'm not joining either one and I don'… Read more

Andrew Keen took on the unruly Internet with his provocative 2007 book, "Cult of Amateur -- How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture." He advanced a thesis that mainstream media, copyrights, and the public trust are being compromised by the profusion of content on blogs, YouTube, and other venues. He described the situation as "ignorance meets egoism meets bad taste meets mob rule."

In his new book, "Digital Vertigo," Keen takes on Facebook and the social Web. He argues that the profusion of sharing online is "killing our species," dividing, diminishing, … Read more

John Doerr has been called the "world's wealthiest and most well-connected venture capitalist" by Forbes. The Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers partner has been an early-stage investor in some of the best-known companies in the tech industry, including Google, Amazon, Sun, and Zynga, and he has 109,000 Twitter followers.

I'm a fairly prolific professional journalist writing for a national publication and covering a wide range of topics from startups to Lego to aviation to NASA and more. I have 6,250 followers on Twitter.

I'm happy with my place in life and how my … Read more

Google has responded to the many people upset over its Google+ profile name restrictions by tweaking the controversial policy.

In a Google+ post published late yesterday, Bradley Horowitz, vice president of product for Google+, acknowledged that many of the violations from users of the Google+ name policy were "well-intentioned and inadvertent" and that for these people, the process can be "frustrating and disappointing."

At the same time that Google+ has captured 20 million members in just a few weeks, many have complained about the site's requirement that they must use their real names in their … Read more

A Google VP has apparently weighed in on the controversy over why Google+, still in its infancy following its arrival in late June, requires members to use their real names on the social network.

In a reported conversation Sunday night with tech blogger Robert Scoble, Google's senior vice president of social, Vic Gundotra, acknowledged that Google has made mistakes in its first pass with Google+. But he explained that the requirement to use real names is an attempt to set a positive tone, "like when a restaurant doesn't allow people who aren't wearing shirts to enter.&… Read more

Jeff's filling in for Natali Del Conte and "getting Loaded" all week while she's away on maternity leave, so our sincerest apologies to live listeners for this morning's late start.

Luckily, close fran (friend/fan) of The 404 Rana Sobhany drops by for a surprise visit to make up for lost time and tell us all about her new project as an iPad DJ and producer!

We've had Rana on the show before (who could forget the infamous Valentine's date episode?) so we know all about her professional endeavors, but we had no … Read more

Predicting the decline of Microsoft is a favorite sport for some, and indeed, there is plenty of reason to argue that Redmond will struggle as Google and others provide cheaper alternatives to the powerfully profitable combination of Windows and Office.

But efforts ranging from Surface to Windows Phone to Project Natal also provide reason to think that Microsoft might yet be able to innovate its way through some of these challenges. The future of the world's largest software maker was the topic of Friday's CNET Reporters' Roundtable, where Robert Scoble and Don Dodge joined Rafe Needleman and me … Read more

Robert Scoble, a video blogger and all-around-new-media-phile, has unveiled his latest project, which will focus on creating a content and social networking "community" for people "fanatical about the Internet," TechCrunch reported Saturday.

The project, dubbed Building 43, is being created with his new employer, hosting company Rackspace.

This will be Scoble's fourth job in less than three years. In that time, he's also worked for Microsoft, PodTech, and most recently FastCompany.TV.

"Our content will be available via Creative Commons so you can use our videos or photos or other media on your … Read more

It's sort of cute, really: blogger Robert Scoble went on a nice snowy stroll with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg while the two were in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum. Of course, he wrote about it.

Most of what Scoble wrote about his conversation with the young CEO is either information that was out there already or tidbits like the fact that Zuckerberg was teaming up with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to work the coat check at the World Economic Forum's annual Women's Dinner (aww!), but there was one fairly interesting part: apparently, Facebook … Read more