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Want some big exposure on Facebook? Just pull off a water landing in a fully loaded passenger jet.
For Chesley B. Sullenberger, who successfully landed US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson river Thursday, that happening appeared to have given him a cult-like following on the popular social network.
So far users have created nearly a dozen fan pages for Sullenberger, the most active of which… is pulling in more than 100 new fans a minute and totals more than 51,000 members at the time of this posting. While it’s nowhere near the millions attained by some celebrities and

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Hulu… has quickly become one of the leaders in online video. Providing professional content from major networks and movie studios, the site has welcomed millions across the U.S. who want to watch streams of their favorite shows or movies online.
I’m certainly one of them. But after catching up on Battlestar Galactica and watching the same five episodes of The Office over and over again to memorize Dwight Schrute’s lines, I’m left wanting more.
That’s why I’ve compiled this list of five television shows that I’d like to see added to Hulu.
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Curb Your Enthusiasm creator

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My CNET News colleague Charles Cooper’s kvetching about YouTube not offering a download option for political videos seems to be answered. Such an option now appears right underneath the player on certain videos, including President-elect Barack Obama’s weekly addresses….
While users have long been able to grab YouTube clips both with Flash rippers and H.264 stream downloaders, this would be the first time such an option has appeared on the site as an official offering. The new option gives users a full-quality H.264 file–the very same copy that’s sent out to YouTube-capable set top boxes and iPhones.
Stanford

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In a post on the company’s developer blog on Friday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced some changes to the management of its third-party developer projects. This encompasses both the Facebook platform, which opened up the social network to third-party applications and took off like wildfire when it launched in 2007, and the newer Facebook Connect, which brings Facebook log-in credentials to participating outside sites….
No employees have departed the company or were laid off in the process, a Facebook spokesman told CNET News in an e-mail.
The new head of platform and Facebook Connect engineering is

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With Thursday’s news that Google is discontinuing development on its Notebook service, it may leave a few people looking for a viable replacement. The good news is that there are a handful of really solid products that do the same thing, and in some cases–do it better. Here’s a list of seven of our favorites, in no particular order.
1. Evernote
Evernote has a few big things going for it, the main one being its cross-platform architecture which lets you access and add to your Evernotes from multiple devices. It also has optical character recognition…, which means

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